Shweta Kishore
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 200799 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shweta Kishore |
| NOMBRES | Shweta |
| APELLIDO | Kishore |
| FIRMA | KISHORE S |
| AFILIACIONES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3195-7991 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Gendered vengeance
This article examines the gendered dynamics of revenge in The Mahabharata , addressing a significant gap in the scholarly analysis of this ancient Indian epic. Despite revenge being a prominent theme throughout the epic, it has largely been overlooked in academic discourse. This study employs textual analysis and comparative methodologies to explore how revenge functions differently for male and female characters within the sociocultural context …
Promises and perils of robot-mediated elder care
Utilizing robots as caregivers or companions instead of humans is a scenario that raised significant moral and ethical concerns, that can be assessed from the ambit of health humanities. Under the norm of ‘care’, the human caregiver has a heavily naturalized and paramount role to play. However, what would happen if these roles were taken up by robots? This study explores the rare phenomena of utilizing robotic caregivers for the elderly in two In…
Montage for/as Unsettling Thinking
Notes1 In 2009, Nguyen founded Hanoi based Doclab, Vietnam’s major filmmaking and experimental media collective which nurtured Vietnamese filmmakers and media artists for over a decade. Doclab’s critical pedagogy devised by Nguyen, exposed students to international cinema classics and visiting filmmakers including Harun Farocki (2013) and Ulli Gaulke (2014) and rigorous hands-on production training focused on artistic voice and reflection.Additio…
Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator
How can documentary film overcome ‘engagement at a distance' to perceptively express urban experience? In this article, I examine modes of sensory mode of spectatorial engagement in Cities of Sleep (Dir: Shaunak Sen, 2015) to foreground the place of the body and lived experience in portraying homelessness in Delhi. Drawing upon the concept of social aesthetics that recognises the perception of culturally patterned responses produced in socio-cult…
Re-framing documentary’s victims
What do we learn about documentary forms, practices and relations when marginalised communities adapt documentary filmmaking to revise their historical conditions? The use of documentary filmmaking by Indian media collective Chalchitra Abhiyan responds to three historical circumstances: socially marginalised groups’ under-representation in media industries, their misrepresentation in mainstream media products and the systematic deployment of main…
Co-constructed Documentary Film
How can documentary as visual research method create a relay between feminist scholarship and the goals of feminist struggle? The use of co-constructed documentary responds to the three key concerns of feminist research: the situated nature of knowledge; the critique of hierarchical knowledge; and the intention towards emancipatory action. In other words, documentary-making opens out from a “discourse of sobriety” or representation of historical …
At the Crossroads of the Body and the Word
This article is an empirical reflection on interdisciplinary research. Surveying theories of performance and performativity, it proposes performance as a heuristic tool to breach and bridge the divide between Literature and Culture. The scriptocentricism of academia that reiterates the imperialist ideals and ideas of knowledge, history, and culture itself often ignores or dismisses the lived and embodied “texts” of culture. Performance paradigm c…
Out of place” bodies and gender
In this paper, I investigate Indian filmmaking that emerges from the encounter between urban experience and documentary practice to examine how Indian feminist critique responds to neoliberal discourses of urbanism and gender. I consider the analysis of urbanism in Sameera Jain’s documentary My Own City (2011) which depicts how women become “out of place” in neoliberal cities by focusing on the gendering of urban temporality, mobility and belongi…
Interview with Paromita Vohra
In her films, Paromita Vohra is the trickster, the bahurupiya who entertains, unsettles, and ultimately encourages the spectator to think, reflect, and reconsider. Always penetrating in her analysis, Vohra is interested in the ways power is exercised through history and discourse. Her films are aesthetically distinct in the context of the formal histories of social documentary in India, which emerged at a moment of political crisis and subsequent…
Beyond Cinephilia
Film festival discourses position festival audiences in homogenized ‘local’ contexts where ‘local’ is geographically and conceptually located within national boundaries distinct from the global flows of cultural traffic that festivals facilitate. Particularities of audience constituencies, such as the relationship with cinema and the historical and cultural contexts in which cinema and festivals are experienced, are overlooked. Other approaches p…
Of Bards and Beggars
Co-constructed Documentary Film
How can documentary as visual research method create a relay between feminist scholarship and the goals of feminist struggle? The use of co-constructed documentary responds to the three key concerns of feminist research: the situated nature of knowledge; the critique of hierarchical knowledge; and the intention towards emancipatory action. In other words, documentary-making opens out from a “discourse of sobriety” or representation of historical …
Out of place” bodies and gender
In this paper, I investigate Indian filmmaking that emerges from the encounter between urban experience and documentary practice to examine how Indian feminist critique responds to neoliberal discourses of urbanism and gender. I consider the analysis of urbanism in Sameera Jain’s documentary My Own City (2011) which depicts how women become “out of place” in neoliberal cities by focusing on the gendering of urban temporality, mobility and belongi…
Interview with Paromita Vohra
In her films, Paromita Vohra is the trickster, the bahurupiya who entertains, unsettles, and ultimately encourages the spectator to think, reflect, and reconsider. Always penetrating in her analysis, Vohra is interested in the ways power is exercised through history and discourse. Her films are aesthetically distinct in the context of the formal histories of social documentary in India, which emerged at a moment of political crisis and subsequent…
Of Bards and Beggars
Beyond Cinephilia
Film festival discourses position festival audiences in homogenized ‘local’ contexts where ‘local’ is geographically and conceptually located within national boundaries distinct from the global flows of cultural traffic that festivals facilitate. Particularities of audience constituencies, such as the relationship with cinema and the historical and cultural contexts in which cinema and festivals are experienced, are overlooked. Other approaches p…
Interview with Paromita Vohra
In her films, Paromita Vohra is the trickster, the bahurupiya who entertains, unsettles, and ultimately encourages the spectator to think, reflect, and reconsider. Always penetrating in her analysis, Vohra is interested in the ways power is exercised through history and discourse. Her films are aesthetically distinct in the context of the formal histories of social documentary in India, which emerged at a moment of political crisis and subsequent…
Out of place” bodies and gender
In this paper, I investigate Indian filmmaking that emerges from the encounter between urban experience and documentary practice to examine how Indian feminist critique responds to neoliberal discourses of urbanism and gender. I consider the analysis of urbanism in Sameera Jain’s documentary My Own City (2011) which depicts how women become “out of place” in neoliberal cities by focusing on the gendering of urban temporality, mobility and belongi…
At the Crossroads of the Body and the Word
This article is an empirical reflection on interdisciplinary research. Surveying theories of performance and performativity, it proposes performance as a heuristic tool to breach and bridge the divide between Literature and Culture. The scriptocentricism of academia that reiterates the imperialist ideals and ideas of knowledge, history, and culture itself often ignores or dismisses the lived and embodied “texts” of culture. Performance paradigm c…
Co-constructed Documentary Film
How can documentary as visual research method create a relay between feminist scholarship and the goals of feminist struggle? The use of co-constructed documentary responds to the three key concerns of feminist research: the situated nature of knowledge; the critique of hierarchical knowledge; and the intention towards emancipatory action. In other words, documentary-making opens out from a “discourse of sobriety” or representation of historical …
Social aesthetics and an unreliable narrator
How can documentary film overcome ‘engagement at a distance' to perceptively express urban experience? In this article, I examine modes of sensory mode of spectatorial engagement in Cities of Sleep (Dir: Shaunak Sen, 2015) to foreground the place of the body and lived experience in portraying homelessness in Delhi. Drawing upon the concept of social aesthetics that recognises the perception of culturally patterned responses produced in socio-cult…
Re-framing documentary’s victims
What do we learn about documentary forms, practices and relations when marginalised communities adapt documentary filmmaking to revise their historical conditions? The use of documentary filmmaking by Indian media collective Chalchitra Abhiyan responds to three historical circumstances: socially marginalised groups’ under-representation in media industries, their misrepresentation in mainstream media products and the systematic deployment of main…
Promises and perils of robot-mediated elder care
Utilizing robots as caregivers or companions instead of humans is a scenario that raised significant moral and ethical concerns, that can be assessed from the ambit of health humanities. Under the norm of ‘care’, the human caregiver has a heavily naturalized and paramount role to play. However, what would happen if these roles were taken up by robots? This study explores the rare phenomena of utilizing robotic caregivers for the elderly in two In…
Montage for/as Unsettling Thinking
Notes1 In 2009, Nguyen founded Hanoi based Doclab, Vietnam’s major filmmaking and experimental media collective which nurtured Vietnamese filmmakers and media artists for over a decade. Doclab’s critical pedagogy devised by Nguyen, exposed students to international cinema classics and visiting filmmakers including Harun Farocki (2013) and Ulli Gaulke (2014) and rigorous hands-on production training focused on artistic voice and reflection.Additio…
Gendered vengeance
This article examines the gendered dynamics of revenge in The Mahabharata , addressing a significant gap in the scholarly analysis of this ancient Indian epic. Despite revenge being a prominent theme throughout the epic, it has largely been overlooked in academic discourse. This study employs textual analysis and comparative methodologies to explore how revenge functions differently for male and female characters within the sociocultural context …
Sociology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Cinema and Media Studies (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 obras) · History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Context (archaeology (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras)