A Talk on ‘Secularism as Misdirection: Critical Thought from the Global South’ by Professor Nivedita Menon
ABOUT THE TALK
Professor Nivedita Menon will discuss the core arguments of her book, that secularism as a discourse acts a “misdirection”, hypervisibilising religion and women, and rendering invisible caste, the non-individuated, non-rational self of the global South and capitalism.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Nivedita Menon teaches Political thought at the Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her books include Seeing like a Feminist (2nd edn, 2022) and Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004). She has co-written Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (2nd edn, 2014). Her edited volumes are Gender and Politics in India (1999), Sexualities (2007) and (co-edited) Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring Sites, Selves, Power (2014). She is a regular commentator on contemporary issues on the collective blog kafila.online, of which she is one of the founders. She has translated fiction and non-fiction from Hindi and Malayalam into English, and from Malayalam into Hindi. She is a recipient of the A.K. Ramanujan Award for translation.
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