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Representing 'The Other India' in Transnational Public Spaces
Full text linkThis article explores some of the ways in which the Indian non-fiction writer and journalist, Sonia Faleiro, is positioned as someone with a privileged knowledge about the lives of Indian marginalised subjects, and the ability to translate those experiences for a transnational middle-class audience. In her role as a narrative journalist and an author, she is also tasked with con-structing an ‘authentic’ personality that her readers can relate to, interact with, and in some ways hold to account. In this article, I discuss the way in which Faleiro’s agency in these regards are shaped by and shape the field of Indian middlebrow writing and publishing. This article, with its focus on understanding Faleiro’s transnational literary celebrity and cultural impact, thus critiques the assumptions and politics behind affective citizenship, and middlebrow writing’s purported significance to upholding the cosmopolitan liberal values of plurality, social justice and democra-cy. In essence, following Carolyn Pedwell’s (2014b) critique of liberal narratives of empathy and transnational politics, this article problematises the assumption within certain theories of empathy that a more accurate knowledge of ‘others’ will result in more ethical political action (see for example, Aten’s article (2019) in Psychology Today, “How Empathy Will Save The World”)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustan Thodi Hai: Citizenship Amendment Act Protests, Hashtag Publics and the Enlargement of the Public Space
Full text linkThe oppositional protests against the Citizenship Amendment Bill burst into international consciousness mainly mediated by urgent digital publics on platforms like Twitter on December 12 2019 following police brutality within two historically Muslim university campuses in North India. As campuses throughout the country, along with other public gatherings organised local protests in solidarity with students of Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University, video recordings and photos of police inflicting violence on students were key in the trending of hashtags #AMUagainstCAB, #JamiaagainstCAB, #CABProtests and #CAB2019. The controversy around the Citizenship Amendment Act was therefore linked from its beginning on Twitter with images of student bodies victimised by the Indian State. My main argument in this article is that the effects of rage (#RageResistReject) arising from these online engagements not only marked a key milestone in the enlargement of the existing Indian publics and displacement of boundaries between public and private, political and domestic, and a re-distribution of power between these spheres (J. Ranciere 2014, 55). Here the mediatised urgency around bodily violence affectively propels the framing of the issue as structural and juridical violence (Clarke 2017, 365). Themes of rage against minoritisation and marginalisation of certain issues leads to questioning of the ways in which neoliberal internationalism is continuous with violent quelling of dissent and protests by a nation-state like India
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
When “Muslimness Could Bring Trouble into Secular Spaces”: Anti-CAA Protests and Religious Slogans
No full textA BBC article reported that “a Facebook page calling for violence against 102 Muslim men who are allegedly in relationships with Hindu women has been taken down” . Raised by Indian parents who had an inter-religious marriage in the 80s, the idea of intolerance of kinship networks being formed across religious and caste lines and the recent spate of ‘love-jihad’ related violence is deeply troubling to me at a personal level. Moreover, far from normalising such relationships, advertisements from nationally renowned brands like Tanishq and Surf Excel depicting loving friendships and filial ties between Hindus and Muslims have been boycotted and pulled out. Congress Member of Parliament and former diplomat, Shashi Tharoor, has been vocal in condemning these cases of communal violence, which has risen exponentially since the election of right wing Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014. In response the backlash against the Tanishq Ekatvam ad campaign, Tharoor tweeted; “So Hindutva bigots have called for a boycott of @TanishqJewelry for highlighting Hindu-Muslim unity through this beautiful ad. If Hindu-Muslim ‘ekatvam’ irks them so much, why don’t they boycott the longest surviving symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity in the world -- India?” . In this essay I explore the dichotomy of public and private in official discourse in multicultural polities, and how religious identities, freedom to love and marry, and other issues relevant to women’s lives problematise it. Moreover, I suggest that the recent visibilisation of Muslim women leading mass protests against a religious majoritarian government shatters this false dichotomy that has been propped up by a studied ignoration and exclusion of these bodies, lives, experiences, connectivities and issues from the political discourses around equality and democrac
Social Analysis of COVID-19: A Collective Journal
No full textThis book is a collective journal of the COVID-19 pandemic. With first-hand accounts of the pandemic as it unfolded, it explores the social and the political through the lens of the outbreak. Featuring contributors located in India, the USA, Brazil, the UK, Germany, and Bulgaria, the book presents us with simultaneous, multiple histories of our time.
The volume documents the beginning of social distancing and lockdown measures adopted by countries around the world and analyses how these bore upon prevailing social conditions in specific locations. It presents the authors’ personal observations in a lucid conversational style as they reflect on themes such as the reorganization of political debates and issues, the experience of the marginalized, theodicy, government policy responses, and shifts into digital space under lockdown, all of these under an overarching narrative of the healthcare and economic crisis facing the world.
A unique and engaging contribution, this book will be useful to students and researchers of sociology, public health, political economy, public policy, and comparative politics. It will also appeal to general readers interested in pandemic literature
CHUDI (BANGLES), BINDI, AUR HIJAB WILL BRING ALONG INQUILAB (REVOLUTION): ANTI-PATRIARCHY WITHIN ANTI-FASCIST MOVEMENTS AND THE DESIRE FOR A NEW POLITICAL IN INDIA
No full textThis paper looks at discursive interventions online and protests against political and social injustices against women in India within wider protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (December 2019 - present). In attempting to classify some modes of publicness on digital media platforms that are prevalent amongst women resisting the oppressions of living under an authoritarian regime that overlaps with patriarchal structures, this paper explores the radical potential of spheres of affect that challenge representative authority and questions “who” has the right to construct the political. Drawing on theoretical approaches from Berlant (2008, 2011) and Fraser (2007, 2020), I discuss discourses emerging around women’s experiences whilst theorising the potential that feminist movements might possess to forge transnational solidarity. This paper employs digital ethnography on Twitter, as well as discourse analysis. Instead of utilising the more popular hashtag-analysis or keyword search methods used to study social movements and online cultures, I conduct a qualitative longitudinal analysis of user-timelines. In contrast to studies that measure the impact of digitally mediated activism, I highlight the work involved in constructing these transnational publics through an accurate prediction or ‘knowing’ of others within affective public spaces, as well as in strategic performances of belonging and citizenship
Chudi, Bindi Aur Hijab: Anti-Patriarchy Movements within Anti-Authoritarianism in India
Full text linkThe lines above are from slogans performed by Zanana Ensemble, a women’s group of performing-protestors in Delhi (personal video, Jan 2020). It illustrates the centrality in reportage and social media representations of both urban and rural women in the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India (e.g. The Suno India Show, 2020, Mar 8). This paper looks at discursive interventions online and protests against political and social injustices against women in India within the wider protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act which erupted in December 2019 and continues to evolve at the time of writing. In attempting to classify some modes of publicness on digital media platforms that are prevalent amongst women resisting the oppressions of living under an authoritarian regime that overlaps with traditional patriarchal structures, this paper explores the radical potential of spheres of affect which challenges representative authority and questions “who” has the right to construct the political
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