Mumbai Campus,
Dean, School of Media and Cultural Studies
Professor, Centre for the Study of Contemporary Culture, School of Media and Cultural Studies
Ph.D. (TISS, Mumbai),
M.Phil. (Cambridge Universty, U.K.),
M.A. (SNDT University,Mumbai),
BA (St. Xavier's College,University of Mumbai)
shilpa[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in
shilpa@tiss.ac.in
Shilpa Phadke is a professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She is the co–author of the book Why Loiter? Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets (2011). She is co-editor of Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo In India and South Africa (2022) and Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx (2023). She is the co–director of the documentary film Under the Open Sky (2016).
She was Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor in South Asian Studies at Brandeis University, USA in Spring 2018; International Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, UK in 2017; Faculty Exchange Fellow at the University of Münster, Germany in Spring 2016; and the ICCR Chair in Indian Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany in Spring–Summer 2015.
Shilpa Phadke is currently researching friendship and its possibilities and translating a diary written by her great-grandmother in 1921. She has published in academic books and journals in the areas of gender and urban public space, ethnographies of feminism, feminist pedagogy, risk and the city, middle–class sexualities, middle classes and the new spaces of consumption in the city, feminist pedagogies, feminist parenting, and friendship. She also writes regularly in the popular media, both in print and online, on concerns related to gender and the city.
My research interests include: gender and the politics of space, the middle classes, sexuality and the body, feminist politics among young women, reproductive subjectivities, feminist parenting, single women and marriage, friendship, and pedagogic practices.
My areas of work include cultural studies, gender studies, urban studies, and sexuality studies.
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOK:
Why Loiter: Women and Risk on Mumbai’s Streets, Penguin India, 2011. Co-author with Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade.
EDITED BOOKS:
Intimacy and Injury: In the wake of #Metoo in India and South Africa. Publishers: Manchester University Press (2022), Karavan University Press (2023) and Zubaan (2023). (co-editors: Nicky Falkof and Srila Roy)
Yaari:An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx, New Delhi: Yoda, 2023. (co-editor: Nithila Kanagasabai)
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES:
Gender and Development, Volume 32, Issue 1&2, Special Issue on Gender and Public Space, August 2024.. Guest Editor with Pumla Gqola, Iromi Perera, Nazanin Shahrokni, and Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal.
Economic and Political Weekly, Review of Women’s Studies, Vol. 42, Issue No. 17, 28 Apr, 2007. Special issue coordinator.
DOCUMENTARY FILM:
Director. Khule Asmaan ke Neeche (Under the Open Sky) on girls and football in Mumbra. Funded by Murthy Nayak Foundation, Produced by SMCS, TISS. (Co-directors: Faiz Ullah and Nikhil Titus).
MONOGRAPH
Middle-Class Sexuality: Construction of Women’s Sexual Desire in the 1990s and early 21st Century Mumbai, Trivandrum: Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, 2005.
ESSAYS IN ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“You are next”: Unmarried Urban Women in India and the “Marriage Talk, in Christiane Brosius and Jeroen deKloet (eds) Single Women in the City, Heidelberg University Press, forthcoming 2025.
Gender and Public Space: Introduction. Gender and Development, Volume 32, Issue 1&2. Special Issue on Gender and Public Space. Co-written with Pumla Gqola, Iromi Perera, Nazanin Shahrokni, Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal, Shivani Satija and Anandita Datta. forthcoming 2024.
Putting people in place: Deconstructing gendered imaginations through mental maps have. In Kamalipour, H., Aelbrecht, P., & Peimani, N. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Urban Design Research Methods (1st ed.). Routledge. (2023).
Forging Fraught Solidarities: Friendship and Feminist Activism in South Asia. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 7(1), 02 (2023). https://doi.org/10.20897/femenc/12880 (co-author with Nithila Kanagasabai)
Possibilities, Forward to Gendered Violence in Public Space: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India. Lexington: Lexington Books. (2023)
Rebuilding Precarious Solidarities: A Feminist Debate in Internet Time in Intimacy and Injury: In the Wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa Edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy, Manchester University Press, 2022; Karavan Press 2023, Zubaan 2023.
Introduction: Intimacy, injury and #MeToo in India and South Africa, Edited by Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke and Srila Roy, Manchester University Press, 2022; Karavan Press 2023, Zubaan 2023. (co-author with Nicky Falkof and Srila Roy)
Doing Feminist Community Media: Collectivising in Online Spaces, in Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar (eds), Unheard Voices, Unseen Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India, Sage (2021) (co-author with Nithila Kanagasabai)
‘Defending Frivolous Fun: Feminist Acts of Reclaiming Public Space in South Asia’ in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43:2, (2020) 281-293. DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2020.1703245 ISSN: 14790270, 00856401
‘Why Loiter’ in Digital Lives in the Global City: Contesting Infrastructures edited by Deborah Cowen and Emily Pradis, UBC Press, (2020). (co-author with Sameera Khan)
‘Isolated Bubbles: Reflections on Performing New Motherhood on Facebook’ in Anjali Monteiro, KP Jayasankar and Amit Rai (eds). Diginaka: Where the Digital Meets the Local in India, Orient Blackswan (2020). 9781783481156
Dialogue Interlude: #WhyLoiter. (with Radhika Gajjala). In Gajjala, R. Digital Diasporas: Labor, Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics. UK: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2019. ISBN: 9781783481156
Moon of One’s Own in Lapham’s Quarterly, American Agora Foundation, Vol. 12, No. 1 Winter 2019, p56-59. (co-authored)
‘Women walk out’, Index on Censorship, Volume 46, Issue 4, 2017, pp. 50–53.
How to do Feminist Mothering in Urban India? Some Reflections on the Politics of Beauty and Body Shapes’ in Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism, ed by Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, and Ana Sofia Elias, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p.247-261.
‘The Unruly Margins: Reflections on Violence in Public in Mumbai’, in Kalpana Kannabiran (ed), Violence Studies, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2016, p239-251.
‘Risking Feminism: Voices from the Classroom’, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol L, No. 17, 2015, 63-70.
‘Invisible women’, Index on Censorship, Vol. 42, No.3, 2013, p.40-45. (co-authored with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan)
‘Feminist Mothering: Some Notes on Sexuality and Risk from Urban India’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies,Vol. 36. Issue 1, 2013, pp.92-106.
‘Unfriendly Bodies, Hostile Cities: Reflections on Loitering and Gendered Public Space‘, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol - XLVIII, No. 39, 2013. 50-59.
‘Traversing the City: Some gendered questions of access in Mumbai’ in Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities, Edited by Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang, Routledge, 2013.
‘But I Can’t Carry a Condom! Young Women, Risk and Sexuality in the Time of Globalisation’, in Sanjay Srivastava (ed.), The Sexualities Reader. Oxford India Studies on Contemporary Society (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012).
‘The Gendered Usage of Public Space’ in The Fear that Stalks: Gender Based Violence in Public Spaces, edited by Lora Prabhu and Sara Pilot, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2012.
“and when she roared” in Westerly, Vol 56, No. 2, November 2011, 43-47.
‘If Women Could Risk Pleasure: Reinterpreting Violence in Public Space’ in Bishakha Datta (ed) Nine Degrees of Justice: New perspectives on violence against women in India, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2010.
‘Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent’ in Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham (eds), Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities, London: Routledge, 2009 (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan).
‘Dangerous Liaisons: Women and Men; Risk and Reputation in Mumbai’, in Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.42 No.17, 28 April 2007.
‘Re-mapping the Public: Gendered Spaces in Mumbai’, in Madhavi Desai (ed.), Gender and the Built Environment, N. Delhi: Zubaan, 2007.
‘You can be Lonely in a Crowd: the Production of Safety in Mumbai’, in Urban Studies ed. By Sujata Patel & Kushal Deb, OUP, 2006. (anthologised from a journal essay).
‘Some Notes Towards Understanding the Construction of Middle Class Urban Women’s Sexuality in India’, in Radhika Chandiramani and Geeta Misra (eds.), Gender, Sexuality & Rights: Exploring Theory & Practice, N Delhi: Sage, 2005
‘You can be Lonely in a Crowd: The Production of Safety in Mumbai’, in Indian Journal of Gender Studies, N Delhi: Sage, February 2005.
‘Thirty Years On: Women’s Studies Reflects on the Women’s Movement’, in Economic & Political Weekly, October 23, 2003.
‘Pro Choice or Population Control: A Study of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, Government of India 1971’, essay published in Re/Productions, on-line journal of the Global Reproductive Health Forum, the Harvard School of Public Health, 1997.
ESSAYS IN OTHER COLLECTIONS
‘A Work in Progress’, InPlainspeak, 22 July 2024.
‘Introduction’ in Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (eds.), Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx, New Delhi: Yoda, 2023. (with Nithila Kanagasabai).
‘Being Friends with Men’ in Shilpa Phadke and Nithila Kanagasabai (eds.), Yaari: An Anthology on Friendship by Women and Queer Folx, New Delhi: Yoda, 2023.
‘Dancing Around Each Other: Conversations with a Tween’, InPlainspeak, 15 March 2022.
‘A Shifting Core’, ART India: The Art News Magazine of India, 2019
‘Loitering Online: Conditions of Possibility’, InPlainspeak, 15 April 2019.
‘Risking Politics, Practising Art: The Precarity of Feminism’, in ART India: The Art News Magazine of India, Volume XX, Issue I, January 2016.
‘Talking About Gender and Sexuality as a Feminist Mother: It Only Gets More Complicated’, in In Plainspeak, 15 November 2015.
Open Letter To Parents-Who-Are-Katti-With-The-Daughter-Mumbai-Police-Illegally-Harassed, in In Plainspeak, 11 August 2015.
‘I Wish I May I Wish I might, Have the Wish I Wish Tonight’, in In Plainspeak, 15 August 2015.
Reflections on the New Middle Class: The Model Flat Phenomenon’ in Mumbai Reader 15, Mumbai: UDRI, 2014 (December).
‘Written into the City/ Writing the City’, in Mumbai Reader ‘13, Mumbai: UDRI, 2013, p.362-367.
Parent Trap’ in India Today, November 24, 2011
‘The Unbelongers’ (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan) (extract from Why loiter), in Mumbai Reader ‘10, Mumbai: UDRI, 2011, p.308-313.
‘Entry Restricted: Open Public Spaces in Mumbai’, in Mumbai Reader 09, Mumbai: UDRI, 2011. (reprinted) (co-authored with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan).
‘Who’s Having Fun’ in First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 5, New Delhi: Penguin, 2009, p.42-49 (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan).
‘Insider-Outsider: The Vexed Questions of Access to Public Space’, in Mumbai Reader ‘08, Mumbai: UDRI, 2009, p.276-281.
‘These Mumbai Streets…’ in Mumbai Reader 08, Mumbai: UDRI, 2009, p.282-287. (reprinted).
‘Objects of Desire’ in India Today, December 7, 2009, pp.58-65.
‘Entry Restricted: Open Public Spaces in Mumbai’, Indian Architect and Builder, 22(5), 90–93, January 2009 (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan).
The Perils of Pleasure’ in Art India Vol X, Issue III, 2007, p.55.
‘These Mumbai Streets…’, Indian Architect and Builder, Vol.20, No.12, August 2007, p.116-118.
‘Ritual Pollution: Public Toilets and Questions of Citizenship’ in Mumbai Reader ‘07, Mumbai: UDRI, p.296-301.
‘Cows on the Street, People in their Cars’, section of ‘Who Let the Cows Out’, Indian Architect and Builder, Vol.20, No.10, June 2007, p.86.
With Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade, ‘Mumbai, Streeya ani Sarvajanikta: Duyyam Nagriktvachi Dainandin Anubhuti’, Samaj Prabodhan Patrika, April-June Vol.45 No.178, April-June 2007. (Marathi)
With Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade, ‘Re-visioning Mumbai: A Gendered View’ in Mumbai Reader, UDRI for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2006, p. 246-249.
‘Barcode’, in Mumbai Reader, UDRI for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2006, p. 242-243. (reprinted)
‘Transcending the City’, in Mumbai Reader, UDRI for the 10th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Biennale, 2006, p. 244-245. (reprinted)
With Sameera Khan. ‘The 21st Century Politics of College Clothing (And Other Things), Agenda, Info-Change India, February 2006.
‘Sexuality & Space: Thinking Through Some Issues’, In Plainspeak, Journal of The South & South East Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality, January 2006.
‘The Ban on Dance Bars in Mumbai, India’, Spread Magazine, New York.
‘Transcending the City’, Architecture Time Space & People, January 2006.
‘Glass Barriers’, Architecture Time Space & People, December, 2005.
‘Traversing the City’, Architecture Time Space & People, November, 2005, pp45-47
‘Ritual; Pollution’, Architecture Time Space & People, August, 2005, pp 40-41.
‘Can We Reclaim the Night: The Politics of Nocturnal Public Space’, Humanscape, July 2005.
‘Decoding Spaces’, Architecture Time Space & People, June, 2005, pp 52-53.
‘Taking on the Challenge’, Freedom First, April-June 2005, p.31.
With Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan, ‘Teaching Gender, Framing Architecture – 2’ Architecture Space Time & People, April 2005, p. 20-22.
‘(En)Lighten the Night’, Architecture Space Time & People, March 2005, p. 10-12.
With Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan, ‘Teaching Gender, Framing Architecture – 2’ Architecture Space Time & People, March 2005, p. 20-22.
‘Whither archives: The Politics of Inclusion & Interpretation’, Humanscape, special issue on Archives, February, 2004.
‘Gender in the Classroom’, Humanscape, special issue on Pedagogy, August, 2003.
‘Feminism & the Stories of Our Foremothers’ Humanscape, special issue on Heritage, August 2002.
‘‘Looking over our Shoulders: Women, Fear & Violence in Public Space’, Humanscape special issue on ‘Women and Violence, April 2002.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:
‘Unsafe by Design’, Scroll.in, 24 August 2024.
‘When she speaks up’, Indian Express, 06 February 2022
‘When the state is the patriarch’, Indian Express, 12 August 2021.
‘Mere populism? Kejriwal plan to make transport free for Delhi women could actually transform the city’, Scroll.in, 07 July 2019.
‘‘A service, not an enterprise’: Privatising Mumbai’s BEST buses means unraveling a system that works’, Scroll.in, August 21, 2018.
‘What Kirron Kher could learn from women who actually use public transport’, Scroll.in, 02 December 2017.
‘What We Can Learn From the Young Woman Who Has Rocked the Madhya Pradesh Police’, The Wire, 10 November 2017.
‘#MeToo: There is power in speaking and being heard, and every enraged voice counts’, Scroll.in, Oct 18, 2017.
Why is the government threatened by women’s studies centres in universities? Indian Express, June 15, 2017.
‘Freedom without binaries, without borders’, Live Mint, 04 February 2017.
‘Women too have the Right to Fun’, Mint, January 19, 2017.
‘Taking it to the Streets’, Indian Express, January 08, 2017.
‘The condom-counting MLA has earned a laugh, but his antics betray a deeply entrenched sexism’, Scroll.in, 26 February 2016.
‘How the Deonar garbage-dump fire exposed the self-centredness of Mumbai’s elite’, Scroll.in, Feb 05, 2016. (co-authored with Faiz Ullah).
‘Are Indian college dorms turning into women’s prisons?? Faced with strict curfews, women say they feel like inmates, not students’, Al Jazeera, December 22, 2015.
‘Kiss and tell: Why we started a campaign calling for Park Mein PDA‘, Scroll.in, Sep 27, 2015.
‘To halt moral policing, we must support our grown-up kids’ right to share rooms with their partners‘, Scroll.in, 08 August 2015.
Please spare us the safety lectures. Women should claim the Right to Risk in the city, Scroll.in, 13 December 2014.
Love jihad: restricting women, DNA,Sep 11, 2014.
Sex education for India’s feminist mothers, Al Jazeera America, Aug 25, 2014.
Better toilets won’t solve India’s rape problem: Women need to feel safe in public, not hide in private, Al Jazeera America, Jun 17, 2014.
Defending Fr Frazer’s right to criticise, DNA, 25 April 2014.
No crime deserves death, DNA, Apr 15, 2014.
Workplace relationships: Reclaiming the consent conversation with all its attendant ambiguities, DNA, Mar 5, 2014.
Perceptions about violence against women are not the same since December 16 last year, DNA, Dec 16, 2013.
A judgement that’s inexplicable on several counts, DNA, Dec 12, 2013.
The fun of taking risks in a milieu where it is recognised, celebrated, DNA, Nov 2, 2013
Mumbai 2020: A little fantasy about this Mumbai — my very own Mumbai, DNA, Aug 27, 2013
‘Lets teach our children about consent and free will and not just about danger’, in Hindustan Times, January 28, 2013.
‘Thinking about cities and violence’, in Mid-Day, December 21, 2012, Mumbai
‘The Campaign against Fun’ in The Indian Express, July 04, 2012.
‘Of Feminism and Sex-Selection’, in Hindustan Times, April 29, 2012.
‘Guest Column - Claiming fun, not just safety’, in the city, Hindustan Times, Dec 18 2011,Page 15.
‘Women want bright lights, safe parks and female cops’ in the Sunday Times of India, 30 January 2005. With Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade,
‘Walking on the Streets isn’t streetwalking’, Hindustan Times, Mumbai, August 2, 2005. With Sameera Khan and Shilpa Phadke,
BOOK REVIEWS:
Review of ‘The Camera Chronicles of Homai Vyrawalla’ edited by Sabeena Gadihoke, in Art India, Volume XI, Issue III, Jul-Sept 2006.
Review of ‘Feminist Foundations: ‘Towards Transforming Sociology’ ed by Myers et al and ‘Knowing Feminisms’ ed. by Liz Stanley, in Journal of Gender Studies, 9:1 (2002).
Review of ‘Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India’, by Lata Mani, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999, Economic and Political Weekly, December 2, 2000.
Review of ‘From Independence towards Freedom: Indian women since 1947’ edited by Aparna Basu and Bharati Ray published in the Economic and Political Weekly, January 15, 2000.
Review of ‘A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India’ edited by Mary John and Janaki Nair, published in the Economic and Political Weekly, September 11, 1999, Vol. XXXIV, No. 37.
ART REVIEWS
‘Between Stations’, Review of Chirodeep Chaudhuri’s ‘The Commuters’ in Art India, Volume XVII, Issue I, Quarter I, 2012.
Review of ‘Glass House’ show of art works by Hema Upadhyay, Art India, Vol X, Issue II, 2007.
Review of ‘Bear the Truth, Bare the Truth’ show of art works by Naiza Khan, Art India, Volume IX, Issue II, Apr.–Jun. 2006
Review of ‘The Catalogue’ show by Vidya Kamat, Art India, October 2003.
Review of ‘Sweet-Sweat Memories’ show of art works by Hema Upadhyay, Art India, January 2002.
OTHER EDITORIAL WORK
Guest-edited issue of Humanscape on the theme ‘Learning Beyond Teaching: Experiments with Pedagogy’, August 2003.
Co-editor, Lakshmi Lingam and Shilpa Phadke (eds.) Globalisation, Women’s Identity And Violence, Indian Association For Women’s Studies, 2002
Editor of Journal of the Dept. of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, 1991-92.
ART CATALOGUE ESSAYS
Interview with Artist Varunika Saraf, as part of Catalogue for Caput Mortuum, 2024
Catalogue essay for paintings and video installations by artist Shakuntala Kulkarni at the Chemould Art Gallery, October 2007.
Catalogue essay for exhibition on ‘City Limits: Engendering the Body in Public Space’, Kitab Mahal, March 2005.
Catalogue essay for video installation by artist Shakuntala Kulkarni at the Chemould Art Gallery, March 2004.
Catalogue essay for exhibition of artworks by artist Hema Upadhyay at the Chemould Art Gallery, February 2004.
REPORTS:
Lights, Camera, Time for Action: Recasting a Gender Compliant Hindi Cinema, Report of an 18 month research study conducted along with Prof. Lakshmi Lingam, Dr. Sunitha Chitrapu, Dr. Faiz Ullah, Dr. Harmanpreet Kaur, Ms. Nithila Kanagasabai, Dr. Shilpi Gulati and Ms Rashmi Lamba.
Women in Public: Safety in Mumbai. Unpublished Report submitted to the Indo Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development (IDPAD), 2006, (With Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade).
VISUAL MEDIA CURATION & PRODUCTION
Curated a photo-exhibition, City Limits: Engendering the Body in Public Space with Bishakha Datta, Point of View as part of the Gender & Space Project endeavours, 2005.
Producer. Audio-documentary, And then they Came for My Jeans, on dress codes in colleges as part of the Gender & Space Project endeavours, 2005.
Concept and Producer. Documentary film Freedom Before 11, on women’s hostels in the city part of the Gender & Space Project endeavours, 2005.
NEW MEDIA
Installation ‘Gendered Strategies for Loitering’ at the International Symposium on Electronic Art, developed as part of a new media residency at the National University of Singapore, July-August 2008, with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan.
Installation ‘Gendered Strategies for Loitering’ at the University of Hyderabad and the Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad in March 2009 with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan.
Installation ‘ Gendered Strategies for Loitering’ (along with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan) selected for the exhibition: ‘What Makes India Urban?’ at Aedes Gallery, Berlin in Oct. 2009.
NON-PROFIT AFFILIATIONS
Trustee, Majlis Legal Centre, Mumbai, September 2016 – present.
Board Member, CREA, New York, 2023-present.
Board Member, CREA, New Delhi, 2005 to 2023.
Associate, Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research, Mumbai 2001-2014.
BOARD OF STUDIES
Member, Board of Studies for English and Cultural Studies, Christ University, Bangalore, 2021-present.
Member, Board of Studies – Sociology and Anthropology, St. Xavier’s college (Autonomous), November 2010 to present.
Member, Board of Studies, Mass Media, St. Xavier’s college (Autonomous), 2014 to 2017.
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Editorial Board, Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, August 2014 to 2023.
International Corresponding Editor, Urban Studies Journal, 2022-2024.
OTHER AFFILIATIONS
Jury Member, ‘Entekochi’ Urban Design Competition, 2020
Member of the Core Group for the Hub-Gender: UN-Habitat, January 2014 to 2020.
Member, Core Group, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, convened by TARSHI, New Delhi 2014-2016.
CONSULTANCIES
Consultancy with Facebook to conduct Women’s Safety Roundtables, 2018 (along with Prof. Lakshmi Lingam).
Consultant to ‘Films of Desire: Sexuality and the Cinematic Imagination’ at Creating Resources for Empowerment in Action (CREA), New Delhi, 2006 to 2007.
Consultant to ‘The Beauty Myth in India’, with Point of View, Mumbai. This includes the development of a workshop based curriculum designed to explore the notions of beauty in India in historical and socio-cultural contexts. Also involved in facilitating workshops, 2003.
Consultant to ‘Girls Media Group’, A Woman’s Place Project . A set of workshops designed for young girls to understand and explore various dimensions of the media, 2003.
Research Projects (past and present):
- Gender and public space (with Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade)
- Feminist Mothering.
- Feminism and Young Women
- Unfriendly Bodies? Talking on Young Men on Streets funded by the TISS Research Council.
- Reproductive Subjectivities
- Single Women and the Marriage Talk
- Friendship and its Possibilities (with Nithila Kanagasabai)
- Parvati's Diary: The Afterlife of a Text (Or Translating my Great-Grandmother's Diary)
• Madeleine Haas Russell Visiting Professor in South Asian Studies, Brandeis University, Spring Semester, January-April 2018.
• Institute of Advance Studies Visiting Fellowship, University of Warwick, 30 Jan – 08 February 2017.
• DAAD Academic Exchange Programme, University of Muenster, 17-30 June 2016.
• ICCR Chair Professor, University of Leipzig, Germany, 01 May – 16 July 2015.
Cultural Studies: An Introduction I, Basic Course, Semester I, 2 credits.
Cultural Studies: An Introduction II, Basic Course, Semester II, 2 credits.
Gender, Media and Culture, Optional Course, Semester III, 2 credits. (cross taught to Women's Studies and Media and Cultural Studies)
Gender, Space and Culture, Optional Course, Semester IV, 2 credits. (CBCS Course)
