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Ghosh, A. (2020). Social media and commodifying empathy in the covid-era. Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies (1), 23-28
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Social media and commodifying empathy in the covid-era
2020 (Engelska)Ingår i: Chakra: A Nordic Journal of South Asian Studies, ISSN 1652-0203, nr 1, s. 23-28Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

This article traces various social media expressions during the ongoingpandemic and asks the overarching question: how one should understand,express and practice compassion and empathy in this new context of global– yet differential and graded – uncertainty, loss and suffering? It focuseson the unfamiliar shift of entire populations across the globe from physical,tangible spaces to a virtual, online presence and the consequent issueof what norms, rules and ethics govern this online area of expression andaction during a pandemic. Caught between an either-or narrative betweena display of privileged quarantine living, a sense of empathy for the marginalizedor a downright lack of it, the article observes that social mediaresponses to the pandemic produce a ‘competitive performative compassion.’It argues that such compassion becomes fetishist and results in thevery thing that the expressed compassion was meant to counter, that is,continued unequal suffering.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Lund university, 2020
Nationell ämneskategori
Annan humaniora och konst
Forskningsämne
Humaniora
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-103136 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2021-05-10 Skapad: 2021-05-10 Senast uppdaterad: 2025-02-07Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2019). Kareena’s ‘KKK’ and India’s Nazi Fixation.
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Kareena’s ‘KKK’ and India’s Nazi Fixation
2019 (Engelska)Övrigt (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
Serie
The Quint
Nationell ämneskategori
Filmvetenskap
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Filmvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-120196 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-04-12 Skapad: 2023-04-12 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-04-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2019). Subverting the Nation-State Through Post-Partition Nostalgia: Joginder Paul’s Sleepwalkers. Humanities, 8(1)
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Subverting the Nation-State Through Post-Partition Nostalgia: Joginder Paul’s Sleepwalkers
2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Humanities, E-ISSN 2076-0787, Vol. 8, nr 1Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

With the advent of the Progressive Writers Movement, Urdu Literature was marked with a heightened form of social realism during the Partition of British India in 1947. Joginder Paul, once a part of this movement, breaks away from this realist tradition in his Urdu novella, Khwabrau (Sleepwalkers), published in 1990. Sleepwalkers shifts the dominant realist strain in the form and content of Urdu fiction to open a liminal “third space” that subverts the notion of hegemonic reality. Sleepwalkers is based on a time, many years after the Partition in the city of Karachi, and focuses on the “mohajirs” from Lucknow who construct a mnemonic existential space by constructing a simulacrum of pre-Partition Lucknow (now in India). This paper examines the reconceptualization of spaces through the realm of political nostalgia and the figure of the refugee subject “performing” this nostalgia. This nostalgic reconstruction of space, thus, becomes a “heterotopia” in Foucauldian terms, one that causes a rupture in the unities of time and space and the idea of nation-hood. The refugee subjects’ subversion of the linearity of time opens a different time in the narration of a nation that necessitates that the wholeness of the “imagined” physical space of a nation be questioned.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
MDPI, 2019
Nyckelord
memory, partition, nation-state, Foucault, heterotopia, India, Pakistan, Partition fiction, refugees
Nationell ämneskategori
Litteraturstudier
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Litteraturvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98044 (URN)10.3390/h8010019 (DOI)000682985500019 ()2-s2.0-85127268186 (Scopus ID)
Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-14 Skapad: 2020-09-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-04-13Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. & Hållén, N. (2019). Wakanda: The Knotted Politics of Hollywood’s African Dreams. Cerebration (spring)
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Wakanda: The Knotted Politics of Hollywood’s African Dreams
2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Cerebration, nr springArtikel i tidskrift, Editorial material (Refereegranskat) Published
Nyckelord
Africa, Representation, Film Studies, Postcolonial
Nationell ämneskategori
Filmvetenskap Litteraturvetenskap
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Filmvetenskap; Humaniora, Litteraturvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79928 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2019-01-25 Skapad: 2019-01-25 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-04-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2018). Reading Discourses of Power and Violence in Emerging Kashmiri Literature in English: The Collaborator and Curfewed Night. Review of Human Rights, 4(1), 30-49
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Reading Discourses of Power and Violence in Emerging Kashmiri Literature in English: The Collaborator and Curfewed Night
2018 (Engelska)Ingår i: Review of Human Rights, ISSN 2520-7024, Vol. 4, nr 1, s. 30-49Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

This essay studies two literary texts on Kashmir, The Collaborator (2011) by Mirza Waheed and Curfewed Night (2010) by Basharat Peer and analyzes the discourses of power and covert and overt forms of violence that the works present. It first contextualizes events from the last three years that have occurred in Kashmir to present forms of violence Kashmiri subjects undergo in the quotidian of life. Thereafter, it situates the two works by the Kashmiri writers in the growing body of writing in English on Kashmir and historicizes the conflict. The essay, thus, argues that the selected literary works represent Kashmir as a unique postcolonial conflict zone that defies an easy terminology to understand the onslaught of violence, and the varied forms of power. As analyzed in the article, one finds a curious merging of biopolitics and necropolitics that constructs the characters as “living dead” within this emergency zone. For this, the theoretical trajectory of the essay is mapped out to show the transition from Foucault and Agamben’s idea of biopolitics to Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics. Thereafter, essay concludes how the two texts illustrate Agamben’s notion of the bare life is not enough to understand subjects living in this unique postcoloniality. The presence of death and the dead bodies go beyond bare life and shows how that bodies become significant signifiers that construct a varied notion of agency.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Peshawar: University of Peshawar, 2018
Nyckelord
Barelife, biopolitics, Kashmir, necropolitics, violence
Nationell ämneskategori
Litteraturstudier
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Litteraturvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98045 (URN)10.35994/rhr.v4i1.87 (DOI)
Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-14 Skapad: 2020-09-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-04-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2018). Viewpoint: Kashmir - a violent postcoloniality.
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Viewpoint: Kashmir - a violent postcoloniality
2018 (Engelska)Övrigt (Övrig (populärvetenskap, debatt, mm))
Serie
Discover Society
Nationell ämneskategori
Historia
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Historia
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-120204 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2023-04-12 Skapad: 2023-04-12 Senast uppdaterad: 2023-04-12Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2017). Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partitioned Pakistan. In: Sonora Jha, Alka Kurian (Ed.), New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film and Literature: Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film, and Literature. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Silent Waters: Mapping Silence and Women’s Agency in Post-Partitioned Pakistan
2017 (Engelska)Ingår i: New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film and Literature: Disrupting the Discourse Through Social Media, Film, and Literature / [ed] Sonora Jha, Alka Kurian, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2017Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Abstract [en]

This chapter focuses on a Partition film titled Khamosh Pani and argues that it subverts patriarchal religio-nationalism and re-envisions the totalized history of the two national constructs through the liminal figure of the female protagonist Ayesha. It also focuses on the "Recovery Act" of Partition to argue for a nuanced understanding of agency in understanding Ayesha's subjectivity. Ayesha/Veero's final plunge into the silent waters serves as a moment of agentic revelation that reminds us that the author in the chapter refuses to be pinned into fossilized religious-ethnic identities and transgresses the boundaries of a statist notion of religious identity. The reception of the film was controversial and one may argue that the film presents a monolithic version of Islam under the reign of General Zia ul Haq in Pakistan. The chapter shows the women characters' resistance and agency in constructing a varied account of Islam in the film that goes against any notions of an essentialized understanding of the Islam.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2017
Nationell ämneskategori
Kulturstudier
Forskningsämne
Humaniora
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98042 (URN)10.4324/9781315618388-9 (DOI)9780367878412 (ISBN)978-1-138-66893-5 (ISBN)978-1-315-61838-8 (ISBN)
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About the book

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented surge of feminist response to the culture of sexual violence in South Asia. Here scholars across disciplines and international borders chronicle the expressions of a disruptive feminist solidarity in contemporary South Asia. They offer critical investigations of these newly complicated discourses across narrative forms – hashtag activism on Facebook and Twitter, the writings of diasporic writers such as Jhumpa Lahiri, Bollywood films like Mardaani, feminist Dalit narratives in the fiction of Bama Faustina, social media activism against rape culture, journalistic and cinematic articulations on queer rights, state censorship of "India’s Daughter", and feminist film activism in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. 

Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-14 Skapad: 2020-09-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2021-11-11Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2017). The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann’s Death in Venice. Transtext Transcultures, 12, 1-10
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>The Horror of Contact: Understanding Cholera in Mann’s Death in Venice
2017 (Engelska)Ingår i: Transtext Transcultures, ISSN 2105-2549, Vol. 12, s. 1-10Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

Thomas Mann’s novella, Death in Venice (Der Tod in Venedig) was published in 1912, and written during a time when cholera as a fatal disease had made its presence felt in Italy in 1911 and caused a series of fatalities. This article focuses on the notion of tropicality, and the diseased body and what it means in terms of imagining the colonized spaces as represented in the novella, through the discourse of nineteenth century imperial medicine. The historical context of the 1911 cholera epidemic in Italy is indeed significant in the contextualization and the production of the text. Yet, as the paper argues, the disease of cholera works in a larger metaphor to enable a colonial discourse that serves as a cautionary reminder of barring contact zones, “the horrors of diversity” as Mann’s text states when first describing the emergence of Asiatic cholera in the text.

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
France: Gregory Lee, 2017
Nyckelord
Death in Venice, Medicinal Imperialism, Colonialism, India, Orientalism, Thomas Mann
Nationell ämneskategori
Litteraturstudier
Forskningsämne
Humaniora, Litteraturvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-79930 (URN)10.4000/transtexts.779 (DOI)
Tillgänglig från: 2019-01-25 Skapad: 2019-01-25 Senast uppdaterad: 2019-02-08Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2016). Refugees as Homo Sacers: Partition and the National Imaginary in The Hungry Tide. In: Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, Rahul Gairola (Ed.), Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Refugees as Homo Sacers: Partition and the National Imaginary in The Hungry Tide
2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics / [ed] Amritjit Singh, Nalini Iyer, Rahul Gairola, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016Kapitel i bok, del av antologi (Refereegranskat)
Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016
Nationell ämneskategori
Språk och litteratur
Forskningsämne
Humaniora
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98043 (URN)1498531040 (ISBN)978-1-4985-3104-7 (ISBN)978-1-4985-3106-1 (ISBN)978-1-4985-3105-4 (ISBN)
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About the Book

Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar’s notion of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic, and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on communities throughout the South Asian diaspora.

The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal, multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia in relation to several topics, including decolonization and post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism.

Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-14 Skapad: 2020-09-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2020-11-16Bibliografiskt granskad
Ghosh, A. (2016). Where is the East?. Critical Muslim, 20 PostWest(2)
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Where is the East?
2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: Critical Muslim, Vol. 20 PostWest, nr 2Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
Abstract [en]

What do we do when we talk about, or think of, the West? Consciously or unconsciously, we envisage the West in terms of its binary opposite: the East. But what is the East; and where exactly is the East located?

The term ‘East’ has always been in vogue in the Eurocentric visions, usually conjuring ideas of mysticism and certain cultural and ideological differences between the East and the West. Lately it has also been loosely synonymous with a new age interest and invention of ‘eastern yoga’ and discovering the spiritual self through what is constructed as the East. But locating the spatial denomination of the term raises some curious problems. Which part of the world shall we unanimously agree is the East? East of what?

Ort, förlag, år, upplaga, sidor
London: C. Hurst & Co., 2016
Nationell ämneskategori
Social och ekonomisk geografi
Forskningsämne
Samhällsvetenskap
Identifikatorer
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-98047 (URN)
Tillgänglig från: 2020-09-14 Skapad: 2020-09-14 Senast uppdaterad: 2020-11-16Bibliografiskt granskad
Organisationer
Identifikatorer
ORCID-id: ORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-5028-7703

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