Read on Twitter
I'd like to start a thread with all the times women or POC #academics have felt erased when their work has come out in the media (news / online articles) without proper attribution. Care to share your story? Did you manage to get justice? #AdviceForFemaleAcademics #POCAcademics
So the @BBCWorld has an entire piece by @yogital on Churchill's legacy in #India without mentioning THE historian of the #BengalFamine @Madhusree1984 & her excellent book #ChurchillsSecretWar that unearthed the death of 3M Bengali #Erasure #FemaleAcademic https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53405121
Another example: this article by Debjani Sengupta on #Marichjhapi & #Dalit identity in @thewire_in ( @bombaywallah @svaradarajan) where no mention is made of Ross Mallick's 1999 or my @epw_in 2005 article even though we both made the same arguments re caste https://thewire.in/history/west-bengal-violence-marichjhapi-dandakaranya
Have just come across this by the @bbc @BBCNews on 'Churchill: Hero or Villain?' They invite Richard Toye (historian on Empire) & Sonia Purnell (author of Churchill's wife's biography) & couldn't invite @Madhusree1984 ?? #Erasure #FemaleAcademics
Prof Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt tells me how in the early 1990s @BBCWorld @ITV came to her house, took all her archives pertaining to #McCluskieganj, made a film based on her book, even using very the title of her book 'In Search of a Homeland', without giving her any credit or royalty
Another example of #erasure of #FemaleAcademics: this review by Sudipta Datta on 'Love, Loss & Longing in #Kashmir' by Sahba Husain, even though there is a list of books on Kashmir.. 1/3 https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/love-loss-and-longing-in-kashmir-review-armed-conflict-and-the-bitter-inheritance-of-trauma/article32110712.ece
there is no mention of Mridu Rai's pioneering historical study of rights, religion, and regional identity in her brilliant book 'Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights and the History of #Kashmir' (2004) 2/3
nor is Ananya Jahanara Kabir's excellent 'Territories of Desire: Representing the valley of #Kashmir' (2009) mentioned. I have not read 'Love, Loss & Longing in Kashmir' so I don't know if the author too has omitted these, but for a reviewer to do so is serious & unacceptable 3/3
Ananya J. Kabir: 'more and more, I realise that what happened to my book(s) is part of a larger story of what happens to female academics. We are GHOSTED. We are not cited. We are not launched. We are not reviewed. We are not mentioned.'
-let's fight against systemic silencing
-let's fight against systemic silencing
Imp addendum -just realised that none of Chitralekha Zutshi's books on Kashmir have been mentioned in the review. Not her 'Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, & the Making of Kashmir (2003) nor her 'Kashmir’s Contested Pasts' (2014) nor her ed book 'Kashmir' (2017).