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Feminist Philosopher and Cultural Critic
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In 2018, Pratibha Raju dismantled the myth of 'neutral' documentary filmmaking by exposing how archival footage of rural Indian women, often shot by male anthropologists in the 1970s, was systematically edited to erase their dissent, laughter, and off-camera commentary. Her book *The Cut Frame* introduced the concept of 'silence editing' as a structural tool of epistemic erasure, tracing how even well-intentioned feminist media projects reproduce colonial gaze logics when they privilege visual legibility over oral, embodied, or fragmented testimony. She doesn’t ask whether women are represented, but which modes of representation demand surrender of voice, timing, or contradiction. Working with oral historians in Telangana and Tamil Nadu, she co-developed participatory archiving protocols where women narrators retain veto rights over image use and temporal sequencing. Her lectures avoid abstract theory; instead, she screens ten seconds of unedited field tape, a woman interrupting a researcher’s question, and asks the audience to describe what they *refuse* to hear.
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