Embodied Transgressions: Representing Indigenous Women’s Protest Politics in India's Forestlands

Basuli Deb

Basuli Deb is a Professorial Research Associate at the School of Law, Gender and Media, SOAS. She is also engaged with the Centre for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University’s Law School and is also an invited lifetime scholar at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University where she co-founded the international Research Group on Dalit and Adivasi Studies.

Basuli has held visiting positions at Columbia’s Institute for Comparative Literature; Society and Institute for the Study of Human Rights and is a member of the north-south editorial collective’s initiative on “Decolonial Feminist Publishing” at the Gender Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Basuli is currently co-editing a special issue Indigenous Feminisms Across the World with Ginetta Candelario, the editor of Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism.

Basuli’s publications include the monograph ‘Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Terror in Literature and Culture.’  She is completing revisions of a book manuscript on transnational feminist rapprochement between decolonial and postcolonial studies, examined through the connected materialities of indigenous and transmigrant lives in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. In another monograph project, Basuli combines a transnational feminist analytic with feminist science studies to forge a critical conversation between climate change and pandemics.

Basuli has served in international and national feminist leadership capacities at the MLA and the National Women’s Studies Association. She has delivered keynotes at international conferences and given lectures at consulates and foundations across the US and abroad. She was invited to offer recommendations to the 63rd UN Commission on the Status of Women to address sexual and reproductive violence in the Rohingya genocide. She is a member of the NGO Committee on the Status of Women that supports the work of the UN CSW and UN Women, and is also a Distinguished Fellow of the Indian American Intellectuals’ Forum invested in US foreign policy dialogues.

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