Bidisha Mukherjee

Bidisha Mukherjee (she/her) is a PhD student in the Medical Humanities track at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UW Madison. She is interested in exploring the nuances of health and medicine, and how they are shaped by socio-cultural and political processes produced under prolonged militarization in the war zone of Kashmir. Her work inquiries how life proceeds while negotiating with the aspirations of health and well-being, and networks of care practices, resisting modes of the necropolitical occupation. In 2023, she presented a paper at the Centre for India and South Asia (CISA) Annual Conference at UCLA, which dealt with the politics of care practices within women’s activism in Kashmir.