Harjant S Gill
Biographic Data
| ID | 104427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harjant S Gill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harjant S |
| FAMILY NAME | Gill |
| SIGNATURE | GILL H S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8490-0556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel
This article explores what it means to be a Punjabi Sikh man in an era of transnational migration. I look at how Sikh men from India access global migrant flows and negotiate the formal and informal sets of requirements for moving across national boundaries. Upon learning that different travel itineraries necessitate different embodied practices, what kinds of transformations do migrant men undergo? In anticipation of transnational travel, Sikh m…
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers-of-Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema
The American ethnographic film canon remains dominated by straight white men. As anthropology takes on the task of confronting the riddle of white supremacy, this might be a good time to consider who remains missing from popular taxonomies of anthropological cinema and to bring them into the canon. Unsurprisingly, the voices of immigrant diasporic queers of color are absent. By revisiting the ethnographic cinema of four such filmmakers-Marlon Rig…
Censorship and Ethnographic Film: Confronting State Bureaucracies, Cultural Regulation, and Institutionalized Homophobia in India
Based on my encounters with the Indian censor board while trying to get my films approved for broadcast on Indian television, I explore how bureaucratic institutions such as the Indian Central Board of Film Certification ( CBFC ) operate as instruments of the nation‐state to control speech, regulate culture, and stifle dissent in the interest of advancing the Indian government's nationalist, paternalist, heteronormative agendas and policies. I al…
Multimodality: An Invitation
This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects \nchanges in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to \ninclude other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these \nchanges can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media \nproduction; (2) the shift …
Kokkho-Poth [The Sound of Old Rooms] Sandeep Ray, dir. 72 min. Bengali with English subtitles. Bangalore, India: Documentary Educational Resources, 2011
Orlando: Observances
528 Feminist Studies 42, no. 2. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Orlando: Observances In the wake of the June 12 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, many individuals and groups spontaneously organized vigils to mark the massacre. Given the transitory nature of public attention to news stories, our editorial board felt that it was important to record the sensibility of the collective responses to this tragedy. We have compile…
Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Reviewed by: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj Harjant S. Gill Stanley I. Thangaraj, Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 288 pp. Based on over four years of research among the South Asian Basketball leagues in Atlanta, Stanley Thangaraj’s Desi Hoop Dreams is an insightful exploration into …
Before Picking up the Camera: My Process to Ethnographic Film
Masculinity, mobility and transformation in Punjabi cinema: From Putt Jattan De ( Sons of Jat Farmers ) to Munde UK De ( Boys of UK )
This article explores the popular representation of masculinity in Punjabi cinema and how it has changed over the past three decades as the Punjabi film industry has gone from being regionally based to increasingly transnational. I look at how within Punjabi films, caste and class hierarchies operate as mechanisms for visibly marking the cinematic representations of hegemonic masculinity. The heroes of Punjabi films often belong to the landowning…
Multimodality: An Invitation
This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects \nchanges in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to \ninclude other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these \nchanges can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media \nproduction; (2) the shift …
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers-of-Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema
The American ethnographic film canon remains dominated by straight white men. As anthropology takes on the task of confronting the riddle of white supremacy, this might be a good time to consider who remains missing from popular taxonomies of anthropological cinema and to bring them into the canon. Unsurprisingly, the voices of immigrant diasporic queers of color are absent. By revisiting the ethnographic cinema of four such filmmakers-Marlon Rig…
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel
This article explores what it means to be a Punjabi Sikh man in an era of transnational migration. I look at how Sikh men from India access global migrant flows and negotiate the formal and informal sets of requirements for moving across national boundaries. Upon learning that different travel itineraries necessitate different embodied practices, what kinds of transformations do migrant men undergo? In anticipation of transnational travel, Sikh m…
Masculinity, mobility and transformation in Punjabi cinema: From Putt Jattan De ( Sons of Jat Farmers ) to Munde UK De ( Boys of UK )
This article explores the popular representation of masculinity in Punjabi cinema and how it has changed over the past three decades as the Punjabi film industry has gone from being regionally based to increasingly transnational. I look at how within Punjabi films, caste and class hierarchies operate as mechanisms for visibly marking the cinematic representations of hegemonic masculinity. The heroes of Punjabi films often belong to the landowning…
Censorship and Ethnographic Film: Confronting State Bureaucracies, Cultural Regulation, and Institutionalized Homophobia in India
Based on my encounters with the Indian censor board while trying to get my films approved for broadcast on Indian television, I explore how bureaucratic institutions such as the Indian Central Board of Film Certification ( CBFC ) operate as instruments of the nation‐state to control speech, regulate culture, and stifle dissent in the interest of advancing the Indian government's nationalist, paternalist, heteronormative agendas and policies. I al…
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future
Orlando: Observances
528 Feminist Studies 42, no. 2. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Orlando: Observances In the wake of the June 12 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, many individuals and groups spontaneously organized vigils to mark the massacre. Given the transitory nature of public attention to news stories, our editorial board felt that it was important to record the sensibility of the collective responses to this tragedy. We have compile…
Before Picking up the Camera: My Process to Ethnographic Film
Masculinity, mobility and transformation in Punjabi cinema: From Putt Jattan De ( Sons of Jat Farmers ) to Munde UK De ( Boys of UK )
This article explores the popular representation of masculinity in Punjabi cinema and how it has changed over the past three decades as the Punjabi film industry has gone from being regionally based to increasingly transnational. I look at how within Punjabi films, caste and class hierarchies operate as mechanisms for visibly marking the cinematic representations of hegemonic masculinity. The heroes of Punjabi films often belong to the landowning…
Before Picking up the Camera: My Process to Ethnographic Film
Kokkho-Poth [The Sound of Old Rooms] Sandeep Ray, dir. 72 min. Bengali with English subtitles. Bangalore, India: Documentary Educational Resources, 2011
Orlando: Observances
528 Feminist Studies 42, no. 2. © 2016 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Orlando: Observances In the wake of the June 12 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, many individuals and groups spontaneously organized vigils to mark the massacre. Given the transitory nature of public attention to news stories, our editorial board felt that it was important to record the sensibility of the collective responses to this tragedy. We have compile…
Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj
Reviewed by: Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity by Stanley I. Thangaraj Harjant S. Gill Stanley I. Thangaraj, Desi Hoop Dreams: Pickup Basketball and the Making of Asian American Masculinity. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 288 pp. Based on over four years of research among the South Asian Basketball leagues in Atlanta, Stanley Thangaraj’s Desi Hoop Dreams is an insightful exploration into …
Censorship and Ethnographic Film: Confronting State Bureaucracies, Cultural Regulation, and Institutionalized Homophobia in India
Based on my encounters with the Indian censor board while trying to get my films approved for broadcast on Indian television, I explore how bureaucratic institutions such as the Indian Central Board of Film Certification ( CBFC ) operate as instruments of the nation‐state to control speech, regulate culture, and stifle dissent in the interest of advancing the Indian government's nationalist, paternalist, heteronormative agendas and policies. I al…
Multimodality: An Invitation
This section used to be called Visual Anthropology. Its new name-Multimodal Anthropologies-reflects \nchanges in the media ecologies we engage as anthropologists, changes that have broadened our perspective to \ninclude other forms of media practice, while remaining inclusive of visual anthropology. Many of these \nchanges can be linked to three developments: (1) the (relative) democratization and integration of media \nproduction; (2) the shift …
The Uncertain Present and the Multimodal Future
Decolonizing Visual Anthropology: Locating Transnational Diasporic Queers-of-Color Voices in Ethnographic Cinema
The American ethnographic film canon remains dominated by straight white men. As anthropology takes on the task of confronting the riddle of white supremacy, this might be a good time to consider who remains missing from popular taxonomies of anthropological cinema and to bring them into the canon. Unsurprisingly, the voices of immigrant diasporic queers of color are absent. By revisiting the ethnographic cinema of four such filmmakers-Marlon Rig…
Transnational hair (and turban): Sikh masculinity, embodied practices, and politics of representation in an era of global travel
This article explores what it means to be a Punjabi Sikh man in an era of transnational migration. I look at how Sikh men from India access global migrant flows and negotiate the formal and informal sets of requirements for moving across national boundaries. Upon learning that different travel itineraries necessitate different embodied practices, what kinds of transformations do migrant men undergo? In anticipation of transnational travel, Sikh m…
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