Talk:Paola Bacchetta

By Sachi Anjunkar

Paola Bacchetta is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies at University of California, Berkeley, as of November 2022. She is also co-chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Project based at Center for Race and Gender at University of California, Berkeley. According to her bio, her research areas includes the span across Transnational Feminist and Queer Theory, Decolonial Theory, Critical Theory, Movements, Activisms, Artivisms and France, India and the U.S.

As per her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, the impact or relationship between Islam and Hinduism / Hindutva, India or the Indian Government in the context of the BJP Government.

In 2021, she endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Book Publications

1. Bacchetta, Paola, and Margaret Power. Right-Wing Women. Routledge, 2013.

Journal Articles

1. Bacchetta, Paola. “Re-interrogating Partition: Voices of Women/Children/ Dalits in the Partition of India and Pakistan.” Feminist Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, 2000, pp. 567-586.
2. Bacchetta, Paola. “Sacred Space in Religious-Political Conflict in India: The Babri Masjid Affair, in Space and Ethnic Conflict.” Growth and Change, vol. 31, 2000, pp. 255-284.
3. Bacchetta, Paola. “Militant Hindu Nationalist Women Re-Imagine Themselves: Notes on Mechanisms of Expansion/ Adjustment.” Journal of Women's History, vol. 10, 1999, pp. 125-147.
4. Bacchetta, Paola. “When the (Hindu) Nation Exiles its Queers.” Social Text, vol. 61, 1999, pp. 141-166.
5. Bacchetta, Paola. “Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologists.” Embodied Violence: Communalizing Women's Sexuality in South Asia, edited by Kumari Jayawardena and Malathi de Alwis, Kali for Women, 1996. Also published by Sage Publications, 1996, pp. 126-167.

Book Chapters

1. Bacchetta, Paola. “When the (Hindu) Nation Exiles Its Queers.” Jura Gentium: Rivista di filosofia del diritto internazionale e della politica globale, University of Florence, 2013, www.juragentium.org/topics/rol/en/bacchetta.
2. Bacchetta, Paola. “The (Failed) Production of Hindu Nationalized Space in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, vol. 17, no. 5, 2010, pp. 551-572.
3. Bacchetta, Paola. “Gendered Fractures in Hindu Nationalism.” The Oxford India Hinduism: A Reader, edited by Vasudha Dalmia and Heinrich von Stietencron, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 373-395.
4. Bacchetta, Paola. “Hindu Nationalist Women as Ideologues.” The Sangh Parivar: A Reader, edited by Christophe Jaffrelot, Oxford University Press, 2005.
5. Bacchetta, Paola. “Extra-Ordinary Alliances: Women Unite against Religious-Political Conflict in India.” Feminism and Anti-Racism: International Struggles, edited by Kathleen Blee and France Winddance Twine, New York University Press, 2002, pp. 220-249.
6. Bacchetta, Paola. “Hindu Nationalist Women Imagine Spatialities.” Right-Wing Women across the Globe, edited by Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, Routledge, 2002, pp. 43-56.
7. Bacchetta, Paola, and Margaret Power. “Introduction.” Right-Wing Women across the Globe, edited by Paola Bacchetta and Margaret Power, Routledge, 2002, pp. 1-15.
8. Bacchetta, Paola. “Hindu Nationalist Women: On the Use of the Feminine Symbolic to (Temporarily) Displace Male Authority.” Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India, edited by Laurie Patton, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 157-176.
9. Bacchetta, Paola. “All Our Goddesses Are Armed: Religion, Resistance, and Revenge in the Life of a Militant Hindu Nationalist Woman.” Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, vol. 25, 1993, pp. 38-51.