Dr. Roja Suganthy-Singh (Sociology, Anthropology, Women and Gender Studies, at St. John Fisher College) will discuss the new book by Madhumita Dutta (Geography, OSU) with Prof. Dutta.
In 2013 Madhumita, a doctoral student, went to do research in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu. There she met Kalpana, Abhinaya, Satya, Lakshmi, and Pooja—all women working inside an electronics factory. In the women’s rented room, they would gather regularly over the next year, drinking tea, chatting, recording, and producing a radio podcast: Mobile Girls Koottam.
Challenging what theorisation and research can be, Mobile Girls Koottam offers us a look into the complex lives of young rural migrant women in their own words, and invites us (listeners) to engage in a process of learning and unlearning, and to interrogate our own privileges as we imagine the life-worlds of working class women.
Sponsored by the South Asian Studies Initiative (SASI).
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