Majia Nadesan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322724 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Majia Nadesan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Majia |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadesan |
| SIGNATURE | NADESAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2399-5587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women’s Financial Inclusion, FinTech and Market-Based Solutions to Poverty Alleviation
FinTech is heralded by international development entities, NGOs, and investment firms alike as delivering financial inclusion and women’s empowerment. This paper examines these claims and situates FinTech within 20 years of microfinance and micro-enterprise programs aimed at poverty alleviation. The promotion of what has been called “livelihood” finance as a neoliberal solution to development is challenged for ignoring the realities of credit for…
Crises Narratives Defining the Covid-19 Pandemic
Experts, news media, and social media commentators struggled to make sense of SARS-CoV-2 January-May 2020 as disease caused by this virus, COVID-19, circulated the globe. This paper represents a longitudinal analysis of the primary narratives produced across expert, media, and social media sources to describe the virus, its phylogenetic origins, and biological effects. High expert uncertainty coupled with amplifying representations of risk across…
The Geopolitics of Public Memory
Japan conscripted a disputed number of “comfort women” to sexually service their soldiers in occupied territories during World War II. In the aftermath of war, this apparatus was ignored by international diplomacy, and few survivors related their experiences as sex slaves. However, during the early 1990s, sexual crimes against women achieved international attention, emboldened by and emboldening silence breakers whose personal experiences were bo…
Nuclear governmentality
Nuclear governmentality is offered as a conceptual contribution to research on energy politics, security studies, and nuclearity. Nuclear governmentality is conceived as a logic of government in the Foucauldian sense, that describes contiguities in conduct and symbolic representations found across disparate dispositifs, especially (albeit not exclusively) those strategically aimed at eliciting and exploiting atomic forces in medicine, industry, a…
Mitzi Waltz, Autism
Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History explores formulations of autism across time and reconstructs historical experiences of people labelled with autism. The tale of autism's construction as a modern disease has been told before, but Waltz's contribution to this conversation is substantial: Waltz's engaging writing style and detailed biographical sketches make the story of autism real and readable for both academic and non-academic a…
Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk
1. Introduction 2. Why Nuclear Power 3. Fukushima Disaster 4. Radiation Effects 5. Conclusion
Media Armageddons and the Death of Liberal Biopolitics
Over the last several years, Western audiences have been treated to a steady stream of post‐apocalyptic disaster films. In this chapter, Majia Nadesan discusses The Road , The Book of Eli , and 9 , arguing that these films can be distinguished thematically from the more general disaster genre by their exclusive focus on post‐disaster survival and their invocations of cannibalism. Significantly, she connects the emphases on post‐apocalyptic surviv…
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war on terror. This book is designed for readers inter…
Governing Childhood into the 21st Century
Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks. In this timely work, Nadesan argues that these frameworks encourage affluent
Governing Autism
Beyond the Power Mystique
Engineering the Entrepreneurial Infant
This essay re-situates current neurological research on infant brain development in terms of a matrix of cultural practices and pre-occupations. It contends that infant 'brain science' functions – in conjunction with the marketing promises of developmental toy manufacturers – as a form of 'ritual magic' (Nelson-Rowe, 1994) that ensures the transformation of 'normal' infants into idealized entrepreneurial subjects. Simultaneously, the discourse an…
Performing the enterprising subject
For women in contemporary corporate life, negotiating and performing a “professional” identity is a process requiring much time, energy, and self‐surveillance. Yet, many women feel compelled to undertake this project despite the challenges it poses. These women often turn to popular success literature for strategies to help them craft and enact successful identities. In this essay, we analyze the popular success literature and compare its prescri…
The romance and science of ‘breast is best’
We argue that a woman's decision to breast‐feed or not is overdetermined by two discursive complexes we label “the romance of the natural mother” and “the science of breast‐feeding.” These complexes incorporate socio‐historical articulations of motherhood, female sexuality, medicine, science, and advertising. Taken together, they dictate the performative possibilities of “normal” and “moral” breast‐feeding. In problematizing normal, moral articul…
Constructing Paper Dolls
Journal Article Constructing Paper Dolls: The Discourse of Personality Testing in Organizational Practice Get access Majia Holmer Nadesan Majia Holmer Nadesan 1Majia Holmer Nadesan is an assistant professor of communication studies at Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 August 1997, Pages 189–218, https://doi.org/10.111…
Gender and Temporality in Interpersonal Systems
This essay provides a nonessentializing account of how gender affects the social construction of time in communicative interactions. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory serves as the theoretical framework for explaining how time is constructed through communication codes. Using Luhmann's model, the essay argues that gender is a communication code that operates to align social participants' perspectives towards a socially constructed 'present.' Howeve…
Engineering the Entrepreneurial Infant
This essay re-situates current neurological research on infant brain development in terms of a matrix of cultural practices and pre-occupations. It contends that infant 'brain science' functions – in conjunction with the marketing promises of developmental toy manufacturers – as a form of 'ritual magic' (Nelson-Rowe, 1994) that ensures the transformation of 'normal' infants into idealized entrepreneurial subjects. Simultaneously, the discourse an…
Performing the enterprising subject
For women in contemporary corporate life, negotiating and performing a “professional” identity is a process requiring much time, energy, and self‐surveillance. Yet, many women feel compelled to undertake this project despite the challenges it poses. These women often turn to popular success literature for strategies to help them craft and enact successful identities. In this essay, we analyze the popular success literature and compare its prescri…
The romance and science of ‘breast is best’
We argue that a woman's decision to breast‐feed or not is overdetermined by two discursive complexes we label “the romance of the natural mother” and “the science of breast‐feeding.” These complexes incorporate socio‐historical articulations of motherhood, female sexuality, medicine, science, and advertising. Taken together, they dictate the performative possibilities of “normal” and “moral” breast‐feeding. In problematizing normal, moral articul…
The Geopolitics of Public Memory
Japan conscripted a disputed number of “comfort women” to sexually service their soldiers in occupied territories during World War II. In the aftermath of war, this apparatus was ignored by international diplomacy, and few survivors related their experiences as sex slaves. However, during the early 1990s, sexual crimes against women achieved international attention, emboldened by and emboldening silence breakers whose personal experiences were bo…
Constructing Paper Dolls
Journal Article Constructing Paper Dolls: The Discourse of Personality Testing in Organizational Practice Get access Majia Holmer Nadesan Majia Holmer Nadesan 1Majia Holmer Nadesan is an assistant professor of communication studies at Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 August 1997, Pages 189–218, https://doi.org/10.111…
Gender and Temporality in Interpersonal Systems
This essay provides a nonessentializing account of how gender affects the social construction of time in communicative interactions. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory serves as the theoretical framework for explaining how time is constructed through communication codes. Using Luhmann's model, the essay argues that gender is a communication code that operates to align social participants' perspectives towards a socially constructed 'present.' Howeve…
Constructing Paper Dolls
Journal Article Constructing Paper Dolls: The Discourse of Personality Testing in Organizational Practice Get access Majia Holmer Nadesan Majia Holmer Nadesan 1Majia Holmer Nadesan is an assistant professor of communication studies at Arizona State University West, Phoenix, AZ 85069 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1 August 1997, Pages 189–218, https://doi.org/10.111…
Gender and Temporality in Interpersonal Systems
This essay provides a nonessentializing account of how gender affects the social construction of time in communicative interactions. Niklas Luhmann's systems theory serves as the theoretical framework for explaining how time is constructed through communication codes. Using Luhmann's model, the essay argues that gender is a communication code that operates to align social participants' perspectives towards a socially constructed 'present.' Howeve…
The romance and science of ‘breast is best’
We argue that a woman's decision to breast‐feed or not is overdetermined by two discursive complexes we label “the romance of the natural mother” and “the science of breast‐feeding.” These complexes incorporate socio‐historical articulations of motherhood, female sexuality, medicine, science, and advertising. Taken together, they dictate the performative possibilities of “normal” and “moral” breast‐feeding. In problematizing normal, moral articul…
Performing the enterprising subject
For women in contemporary corporate life, negotiating and performing a “professional” identity is a process requiring much time, energy, and self‐surveillance. Yet, many women feel compelled to undertake this project despite the challenges it poses. These women often turn to popular success literature for strategies to help them craft and enact successful identities. In this essay, we analyze the popular success literature and compare its prescri…
Engineering the Entrepreneurial Infant
This essay re-situates current neurological research on infant brain development in terms of a matrix of cultural practices and pre-occupations. It contends that infant 'brain science' functions – in conjunction with the marketing promises of developmental toy manufacturers – as a form of 'ritual magic' (Nelson-Rowe, 1994) that ensures the transformation of 'normal' infants into idealized entrepreneurial subjects. Simultaneously, the discourse an…
Beyond the Power Mystique
Governing Autism
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life
Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war on terror. This book is designed for readers inter…
Governing Childhood into the 21st Century
Neoliberal logics of government shaping childhood today produce market-based frameworks for understanding childhood risks. In this timely work, Nadesan argues that these frameworks encourage affluent
Media Armageddons and the Death of Liberal Biopolitics
Over the last several years, Western audiences have been treated to a steady stream of post‐apocalyptic disaster films. In this chapter, Majia Nadesan discusses The Road , The Book of Eli , and 9 , arguing that these films can be distinguished thematically from the more general disaster genre by their exclusive focus on post‐disaster survival and their invocations of cannibalism. Significantly, she connects the emphases on post‐apocalyptic surviv…
Fukushima and the Privatization of Risk
1. Introduction 2. Why Nuclear Power 3. Fukushima Disaster 4. Radiation Effects 5. Conclusion
Mitzi Waltz, Autism
Mitzi Waltz's Autism: A Social and Medical History explores formulations of autism across time and reconstructs historical experiences of people labelled with autism. The tale of autism's construction as a modern disease has been told before, but Waltz's contribution to this conversation is substantial: Waltz's engaging writing style and detailed biographical sketches make the story of autism real and readable for both academic and non-academic a…
Nuclear governmentality
Nuclear governmentality is offered as a conceptual contribution to research on energy politics, security studies, and nuclearity. Nuclear governmentality is conceived as a logic of government in the Foucauldian sense, that describes contiguities in conduct and symbolic representations found across disparate dispositifs, especially (albeit not exclusively) those strategically aimed at eliciting and exploiting atomic forces in medicine, industry, a…
The Geopolitics of Public Memory
Japan conscripted a disputed number of “comfort women” to sexually service their soldiers in occupied territories during World War II. In the aftermath of war, this apparatus was ignored by international diplomacy, and few survivors related their experiences as sex slaves. However, during the early 1990s, sexual crimes against women achieved international attention, emboldened by and emboldening silence breakers whose personal experiences were bo…
Crises Narratives Defining the Covid-19 Pandemic
Experts, news media, and social media commentators struggled to make sense of SARS-CoV-2 January-May 2020 as disease caused by this virus, COVID-19, circulated the globe. This paper represents a longitudinal analysis of the primary narratives produced across expert, media, and social media sources to describe the virus, its phylogenetic origins, and biological effects. High expert uncertainty coupled with amplifying representations of risk across…
Women’s Financial Inclusion, FinTech and Market-Based Solutions to Poverty Alleviation
FinTech is heralded by international development entities, NGOs, and investment firms alike as delivering financial inclusion and women’s empowerment. This paper examines these claims and situates FinTech within 20 years of microfinance and micro-enterprise programs aimed at poverty alleviation. The promotion of what has been called “livelihood” finance as a neoliberal solution to development is challenged for ignoring the realities of credit for…
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