The Third Eye’s series, Back Story, breaks down research, praxis, and lesser-know insights for a wider, non-academic audience, to help us all make sense of the world with a little more wonder, a little more depth.
In our third episode, we meet Rupal Oza, a geographer who works with gender and space. In her new book, Semiotics of Rape, published by Zubaan, she talks about the making of the book, the politics of rape, the role of land and caste in cases of rape, and discusses some critical cases that emerged from Haryana in the last decade.
What is the social life of rape? What does language have to do with it? How do victims reclaim autonomy over their own narratives and refuse to be defined by violation? How does rape contribute to understanding social hierarchies in ways that reveal, exactly because it marks nexuses that conceal? Watch the episode for insights on social significance of rape in India and beyond.
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