Anandam Kavoori
Biographic Data
| ID | 119928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anandam Kavoori |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anandam |
| FAMILY NAME | Kavoori |
| SIGNATURE | KAVOORI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6361-207X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
This Land is La Bamba Land Autoethnographic Encounters With Mexico's Son Jarocho
This essay is a contribution to Autoethnography as a qualitative method drawing on site visits over a decade in Mexico examining a musical-performative tradition called Son Jarocho . Melding together elements of memoir, reportage, and narrative travelogue-it seeks to provide an exemplar of a scripting technique, entitled 'Autoethnographic Encounters.' (hereafter AE). Contextual information is provided in end notes. Each AE represents one moment i…
Remembering My Duniya
This autoethnographic place-based essay explores the ecological space the author grew up in the desert state of Gujarat, in western India.1 Simultaneously, it is also an exploration of the inner journey of discovery, joy, and belonging that a child enacts in discovering the outdoors, his /her/their Duniya,2 or to put it more formally, comes into an environmental consciousness. The essay is a contribution to autoethnographic scholarship in the evo…
Becoming Southern: 10 Autoethnographic Polaroids
I call it 'the great emptying.' This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket in my hand Piled high with memories Of Delhi, India, I begin Swirling, Swinging it over head Holding in a deep-deep breath, Throwing it out, away, as far as I can Back to where it belongs The past I call it The Great Filling. This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket …
Re-making the World
This collection of autoethnographic eco-poetry offers a pedagogical vision for environmental education in an age of Climate Change (and its denial). The poems reflect on the author’s 10+ years of teaching environmental storytelling. Differing in tone and thematic and emotive imprint (ruminative, conciliatory, angry, deliberative), these autoethnographic eco-poems offer entry points for the reader/educator to engage with the coming crises of Clima…
Dull as Dachau
Dull as Dachau is a reflexive, autoethnographic account of the contrived engagement of American undergraduates (from a privileged background) of a class-mandated visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp, near Munich, Germany. Written as a poem, with commentary/contextual referencing in end notes, the essay explores the transactional nature of dark tourism and offers a critique of such pedagogical engagements with history, especially in the context …
The Dreams of Nations: An Ethno-Story
This postcolonial “Ethno-Story” narrative weaves through the unwilled constructs (dreams) of two protagonists/recent graduate students—an Indian Muslim man and a (Caucasian) American woman—working/living at the intersection of media, self, and nation. It explores the inner dynamics of personhood (and couplehood) through intersecting narratives of the self with those of mass-mediated images and realities in an age of terrorism and ethnoreligious c…
An Autoethnographic Quest: Searching for 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea
This autoethnographic narrative explores the cultural contours of 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together elements of cultural criticism, narrative travelogue, and cultural anthropology. Written as an exemplar for a 'Quest Autoethnography,' it seeks to explore the multiple, layered nature of the question of 'Peace' through local vocabularies for identity, including media, language, consumption, community, and above all, culture. The essa…
The Most Peaceful Place on Earth
This reflexive non-fiction/autoethnographic account tells the story of the authors visit to Cheung Eeok Killing fields focusing on themes of peace, place, and the politics of cultural renewal in a country devastated by the Khmer Rouge. It offers a pedagogical vision of how such renewal is taking place through tourism (even of a dark kind) and the unsettling (but also inspirational) experience of walking through this liminal space of Cambodian his…
What Is Peace? Being an Autoethnographic Account of Methodological Musings From the Beach
This autoethnographic essay is focused on methodological space of "problematization"-the wrenching intellectual and emotional process (and lived experience) that a scholar goes through before settling into a long-term writing project-in this case travel to different parts of the world, in an attempt to explore the idea and experience of "Peace" in each of those places. Weaving through elements of family memoir, Georgia history, eco-criticism, and…
Transcultural Subjectivity: Beyond the Global/Local Divide - Towards a Transcultural Understanding of Mediated Subjectivity
The new normal: From media imperialism to market liberalization – Asia’s shifting television landscapes
This article explores television landscapes in Asia two decades after the introduction of satellite television in the region. Exploring both past trends and emergent logics, it argues that whereas nation-states in Asia originally saw foreign, particularly Western, media flows as an existential threat to local culture and identity, and sought to limit them via a variety of gatekeeping mechanisms, the contemporary situation is very different. Indee…
Mapping India's television landscape: Constitutive dimensions and emerging issues
Over the last few decades, the Indian television sector has experienced a profound transformation with regard to policies, players, production and practices. Exploring this altered landscape, this essay argues that the present television landscape in India represents a heterogeneous, ‘rhizomatic’ formation characterized by complex constitutive dimensions that simultaneously reflect both the forces of media globalization and local, contextually ro…
Bollyculture: Ethnography of identity, media and performance
This article offers the concept of ‘Bollyculture’ as a paradigmatic frame for understanding the media/dance cultures and life-space of young South-Asian Americans. Drawing on an extended ethnographic study of India Nite 1 (a performance of Bollywood inspired dances), the essay argues that concepts like Bollyculture capture the hybrid and contested nature of diasporic subcultures, while offering concrete ways of observing the longitudinal and disc…
Film Review: Why the sun shines on Slum Dog
Bring back the local, work the divide: Two curricular recommendations
Media Literacy, 'Thinking Television,' and African American Communication
This essay is a critical, reflexive engagement with the practice, politics and pedagogy of a student centered media literacy project titled 'thinking television.' Written as a theoretical diagnostic, the essay examines the project's value-providing a new vocabulary for democratic communication-and drawbacks, the restrictive nature of narrative possibilities around race in the student projects
Mediated resistance
Mapping a critical framework for the study of travel journalism
This article provides a programmatic framework for the investigation of travel journalism. We argue that travel journalism is an important site for studying the ideological dimensions of tourism, transcultural encounters and the ongoing dynamics of media globalization. Based on the literature on tourism in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, we identify three distinct but interrelated theoretical perspectives for the analysis of travel …
Media imperialism revisited: Some findings from the Asian case
The media imperialism thesis has long argued that the expansion of Western media production into developing countries has resulted in the domination of their national media environments and the consequent destruction of their indigenous media production. This article examines the empirical tenability of this claim with regard to Asia. Delineating the region's media developments, it identifies forces such as national gate-keeping policies, the dyn…
Discursive texts, reflexive audiences: Global trends in television news texts and audience reception
This study examines the process of media globalization at the level of meaning generation (by television news texts) and interpretation (by audiences) based on the analysis of news‐texts and focus groups from four countries. It is suggested that the narrative of television news is discursive: it provides a specific vision of cultural “others”. At the audience level there is the emergence of a global culture of critical media consumption. This ref…
Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies: Getting past the latest “post”: Assessing the term “post‐colonial”
(1998). Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 195-203
Constructing the ‘national’ on Indian television news
This conceptual essay explores how television news articulates an image of the ‘national’ in an age of commercial liberalisation. Using India as the example, it specifically examines how (a) national politics is covered by four different TV news broadcasts and (b) the cultural and ideological function of these broadcasts. It is argued that the ‘national’ is a segmented discourse, speaking either to a national culture that has the political intere…
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research
Television spectacles as politics
Mapping a critical framework for the study of travel journalism
This article provides a programmatic framework for the investigation of travel journalism. We argue that travel journalism is an important site for studying the ideological dimensions of tourism, transcultural encounters and the ongoing dynamics of media globalization. Based on the literature on tourism in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, we identify three distinct but interrelated theoretical perspectives for the analysis of travel …
Mediated resistance
Media imperialism revisited: Some findings from the Asian case
The media imperialism thesis has long argued that the expansion of Western media production into developing countries has resulted in the domination of their national media environments and the consequent destruction of their indigenous media production. This article examines the empirical tenability of this claim with regard to Asia. Delineating the region's media developments, it identifies forces such as national gate-keeping policies, the dyn…
The new normal: From media imperialism to market liberalization – Asia’s shifting television landscapes
This article explores television landscapes in Asia two decades after the introduction of satellite television in the region. Exploring both past trends and emergent logics, it argues that whereas nation-states in Asia originally saw foreign, particularly Western, media flows as an existential threat to local culture and identity, and sought to limit them via a variety of gatekeeping mechanisms, the contemporary situation is very different. Indee…
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
Television spectacles as politics
Discursive texts, reflexive audiences: Global trends in television news texts and audience reception
This study examines the process of media globalization at the level of meaning generation (by television news texts) and interpretation (by audiences) based on the analysis of news‐texts and focus groups from four countries. It is suggested that the narrative of television news is discursive: it provides a specific vision of cultural “others”. At the audience level there is the emergence of a global culture of critical media consumption. This ref…
The Most Peaceful Place on Earth
This reflexive non-fiction/autoethnographic account tells the story of the authors visit to Cheung Eeok Killing fields focusing on themes of peace, place, and the politics of cultural renewal in a country devastated by the Khmer Rouge. It offers a pedagogical vision of how such renewal is taking place through tourism (even of a dark kind) and the unsettling (but also inspirational) experience of walking through this liminal space of Cambodian his…
Media Literacy, 'Thinking Television,' and African American Communication
This essay is a critical, reflexive engagement with the practice, politics and pedagogy of a student centered media literacy project titled 'thinking television.' Written as a theoretical diagnostic, the essay examines the project's value-providing a new vocabulary for democratic communication-and drawbacks, the restrictive nature of narrative possibilities around race in the student projects
Becoming Southern: 10 Autoethnographic Polaroids
I call it 'the great emptying.' This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket in my hand Piled high with memories Of Delhi, India, I begin Swirling, Swinging it over head Holding in a deep-deep breath, Throwing it out, away, as far as I can Back to where it belongs The past I call it The Great Filling. This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket …
An Autoethnographic Quest: Searching for 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea
This autoethnographic narrative explores the cultural contours of 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together elements of cultural criticism, narrative travelogue, and cultural anthropology. Written as an exemplar for a 'Quest Autoethnography,' it seeks to explore the multiple, layered nature of the question of 'Peace' through local vocabularies for identity, including media, language, consumption, community, and above all, culture. The essa…
Mapping India's television landscape: Constitutive dimensions and emerging issues
Over the last few decades, the Indian television sector has experienced a profound transformation with regard to policies, players, production and practices. Exploring this altered landscape, this essay argues that the present television landscape in India represents a heterogeneous, ‘rhizomatic’ formation characterized by complex constitutive dimensions that simultaneously reflect both the forces of media globalization and local, contextually ro…
Bollyculture: Ethnography of identity, media and performance
This article offers the concept of ‘Bollyculture’ as a paradigmatic frame for understanding the media/dance cultures and life-space of young South-Asian Americans. Drawing on an extended ethnographic study of India Nite 1 (a performance of Bollywood inspired dances), the essay argues that concepts like Bollyculture capture the hybrid and contested nature of diasporic subcultures, while offering concrete ways of observing the longitudinal and disc…
Television spectacles as politics
The Purebred and the Platypus: Disciplinarity and Site in Mass Communication Research
Global Texts, Narrativity and the Construction of Local and Global Meanings in Television News
This article discusses the relevance of narrative analysis to the study of media globalization by presenting results of an ongoing study of television news in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. It discusses issues of local and global meanings by focusing on a number of elements of narrative structure (time, valence, story/discourse, themes, drama, genre, and myths) and argues that each element presents ways to track particularistic a…
Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies: Getting past the latest “post”: Assessing the term “post‐colonial”
(1998). Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 195-203
Constructing the ‘national’ on Indian television news
This conceptual essay explores how television news articulates an image of the ‘national’ in an age of commercial liberalisation. Using India as the example, it specifically examines how (a) national politics is covered by four different TV news broadcasts and (b) the cultural and ideological function of these broadcasts. It is argued that the ‘national’ is a segmented discourse, speaking either to a national culture that has the political intere…
Discursive texts, reflexive audiences: Global trends in television news texts and audience reception
This study examines the process of media globalization at the level of meaning generation (by television news texts) and interpretation (by audiences) based on the analysis of news‐texts and focus groups from four countries. It is suggested that the narrative of television news is discursive: it provides a specific vision of cultural “others”. At the audience level there is the emergence of a global culture of critical media consumption. This ref…
Media imperialism revisited: Some findings from the Asian case
The media imperialism thesis has long argued that the expansion of Western media production into developing countries has resulted in the domination of their national media environments and the consequent destruction of their indigenous media production. This article examines the empirical tenability of this claim with regard to Asia. Delineating the region's media developments, it identifies forces such as national gate-keeping policies, the dyn…
Mediated resistance
Mapping a critical framework for the study of travel journalism
This article provides a programmatic framework for the investigation of travel journalism. We argue that travel journalism is an important site for studying the ideological dimensions of tourism, transcultural encounters and the ongoing dynamics of media globalization. Based on the literature on tourism in sociology, anthropology and cultural studies, we identify three distinct but interrelated theoretical perspectives for the analysis of travel …
Bring back the local, work the divide: Two curricular recommendations
Media Literacy, 'Thinking Television,' and African American Communication
This essay is a critical, reflexive engagement with the practice, politics and pedagogy of a student centered media literacy project titled 'thinking television.' Written as a theoretical diagnostic, the essay examines the project's value-providing a new vocabulary for democratic communication-and drawbacks, the restrictive nature of narrative possibilities around race in the student projects
Film Review: Why the sun shines on Slum Dog
Bollyculture: Ethnography of identity, media and performance
This article offers the concept of ‘Bollyculture’ as a paradigmatic frame for understanding the media/dance cultures and life-space of young South-Asian Americans. Drawing on an extended ethnographic study of India Nite 1 (a performance of Bollywood inspired dances), the essay argues that concepts like Bollyculture capture the hybrid and contested nature of diasporic subcultures, while offering concrete ways of observing the longitudinal and disc…
Mapping India's television landscape: Constitutive dimensions and emerging issues
Over the last few decades, the Indian television sector has experienced a profound transformation with regard to policies, players, production and practices. Exploring this altered landscape, this essay argues that the present television landscape in India represents a heterogeneous, ‘rhizomatic’ formation characterized by complex constitutive dimensions that simultaneously reflect both the forces of media globalization and local, contextually ro…
The new normal: From media imperialism to market liberalization – Asia’s shifting television landscapes
This article explores television landscapes in Asia two decades after the introduction of satellite television in the region. Exploring both past trends and emergent logics, it argues that whereas nation-states in Asia originally saw foreign, particularly Western, media flows as an existential threat to local culture and identity, and sought to limit them via a variety of gatekeeping mechanisms, the contemporary situation is very different. Indee…
Transcultural Subjectivity: Beyond the Global/Local Divide - Towards a Transcultural Understanding of Mediated Subjectivity
The Dreams of Nations: An Ethno-Story
This postcolonial “Ethno-Story” narrative weaves through the unwilled constructs (dreams) of two protagonists/recent graduate students—an Indian Muslim man and a (Caucasian) American woman—working/living at the intersection of media, self, and nation. It explores the inner dynamics of personhood (and couplehood) through intersecting narratives of the self with those of mass-mediated images and realities in an age of terrorism and ethnoreligious c…
An Autoethnographic Quest: Searching for 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea
This autoethnographic narrative explores the cultural contours of 'Peace' in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together elements of cultural criticism, narrative travelogue, and cultural anthropology. Written as an exemplar for a 'Quest Autoethnography,' it seeks to explore the multiple, layered nature of the question of 'Peace' through local vocabularies for identity, including media, language, consumption, community, and above all, culture. The essa…
The Most Peaceful Place on Earth
This reflexive non-fiction/autoethnographic account tells the story of the authors visit to Cheung Eeok Killing fields focusing on themes of peace, place, and the politics of cultural renewal in a country devastated by the Khmer Rouge. It offers a pedagogical vision of how such renewal is taking place through tourism (even of a dark kind) and the unsettling (but also inspirational) experience of walking through this liminal space of Cambodian his…
What Is Peace? Being an Autoethnographic Account of Methodological Musings From the Beach
This autoethnographic essay is focused on methodological space of "problematization"-the wrenching intellectual and emotional process (and lived experience) that a scholar goes through before settling into a long-term writing project-in this case travel to different parts of the world, in an attempt to explore the idea and experience of "Peace" in each of those places. Weaving through elements of family memoir, Georgia history, eco-criticism, and…
Re-making the World
This collection of autoethnographic eco-poetry offers a pedagogical vision for environmental education in an age of Climate Change (and its denial). The poems reflect on the author’s 10+ years of teaching environmental storytelling. Differing in tone and thematic and emotive imprint (ruminative, conciliatory, angry, deliberative), these autoethnographic eco-poems offer entry points for the reader/educator to engage with the coming crises of Clima…
Dull as Dachau
Dull as Dachau is a reflexive, autoethnographic account of the contrived engagement of American undergraduates (from a privileged background) of a class-mandated visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp, near Munich, Germany. Written as a poem, with commentary/contextual referencing in end notes, the essay explores the transactional nature of dark tourism and offers a critique of such pedagogical engagements with history, especially in the context …
Remembering My Duniya
This autoethnographic place-based essay explores the ecological space the author grew up in the desert state of Gujarat, in western India.1 Simultaneously, it is also an exploration of the inner journey of discovery, joy, and belonging that a child enacts in discovering the outdoors, his /her/their Duniya,2 or to put it more formally, comes into an environmental consciousness. The essay is a contribution to autoethnographic scholarship in the evo…
Becoming Southern: 10 Autoethnographic Polaroids
I call it 'the great emptying.' This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket in my hand Piled high with memories Of Delhi, India, I begin Swirling, Swinging it over head Holding in a deep-deep breath, Throwing it out, away, as far as I can Back to where it belongs The past I call it The Great Filling. This business of making and re-making of the self. The immigrant self, that is: I hold a bucket …
This Land is La Bamba Land Autoethnographic Encounters With Mexico's Son Jarocho
This essay is a contribution to Autoethnography as a qualitative method drawing on site visits over a decade in Mexico examining a musical-performative tradition called Son Jarocho . Melding together elements of memoir, reportage, and narrative travelogue-it seeks to provide an exemplar of a scripting technique, entitled 'Autoethnographic Encounters.' (hereafter AE). Contextual information is provided in end notes. Each AE represents one moment i…
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