Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia

<strong>CENTRE FOR WOMEN'S STUDIES, JNU</strong> a Panel Discussion on <strong>Feminist Subversion and Complicity: Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia (Edited by Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay, Published by Zubaan, 2016)</strong> This book focuses on the myriad consequences of international development's incorporation of 'gender'. It does so by bringing together a unique group of feminist activist-scholars who have lived and breathed struggles to influence development practice, who draw on their rich and varied experiences to reflect and write. This makes for a book that has a powerful view from inside these struggles, historical depth as well as a compelling and nuanced analysis of the challenges, compromises and conflicts that are necessarily part of these processes of change. This book unpacks the creation of specific forms of 'gender expertise' and the role that gender knowledge has played in securing quiescence alongside policy change. It explores the ways in which the co-optation of feminist rebelliousness in the service of development has numbed feminist critique of the state, with the very bridges that the growth of governance feminism served to build carrying activists away from protest and resistance. <strong>Date: 23 August 2016</strong>