Geeta Patel
Biographic Data
| ID | 135271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geeta Patel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Patel |
| SIGNATURE | PATEL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3099-7094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany and Steepled Towers
The essays in this issue explore the diverse ways in which Black women’s religious epistemologies challenge conventional theological narratives. From the African spiritualities of Nigeria and Jamaica to the anti-colonial politics of Senegal, Sudan, and South Africa, the contributors offer a rich tapestry of perspectives highlighting the radical nature of Black women’s religious knowledge production. Weaving an eclectic spectrum of spiritual pract…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Gender Trouble in South Asia
It is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Gender Trouble by the feminist philosopher of gender, sexuality, and governmentality, Judith Butler. When Gender Trouble came out in the United States, it hit the stands like a hit; it transformed and unraveled the modalities through which ontologies and epistemologies of gender came to be. This was especially the case with the trouble, the disturbances, the turbulence that Gender Trouble carr…
Queer/Ivory Proclivities
Research Article| October 01 2018 Queer/Ivory Proclivities Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Geeta Patel is professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She started teaching queer theory in 1994. She is the author of two off-kilter queer books—Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry and Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, …
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism—Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyd…
Area Impossible
Seeding Debt: Alchemy, Death, and the Precarious Farming of Life-Finance in the Global South
Document raj: Writing and scribes in early colonial south India , by Bhavani Raman
Early on, in the preface to Document Raj, Bhavani Raman turns to the phrase ‘textual habitus’ that comes from a particular French lineage of sociology and anthropology: ‘official intervention to mo
Advertisements, Proprietary Heterosexuality, and Hundis: Postcolonial Finance, Nation-State Formations, and the New Idealized Family
How do nations, states, families, and finance come together? This paper argues that in the period following Indian independence the postcolonial nation can be understood as a family form of hundi, a promissory note held in a state of constant deferral. The hundi and an idealized family form are the means through which trust in the state that coagulates into a nation is established. This idealized family is a particular proper form of the mostly h…
Longing for Mourning
“Longing for Mourning” is a meditation on the verities of events that establish the ostensible stability of supposedly ordinary relationships—commitment, house-buying, and marriage. Influenced by the long history of meditations and commentarial literature on loss and aesthetics, this biographical essay is written as an aesthetic embodiment of theoretical positions. It ruminates on the forms through which time, death, loss, and repeated mourning t…
Time to Tell
Research Article| June 01 2007 TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 273–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 273–300. doi: https://doi.…
Imagining risk, care and security: Insurance and fantasy
This article envisions insurance through the ways in which it comes to inhabit the dailiness of people's lives. Insurance is usually constituted as a technology of risk. Rather than holding risk and insurance to the bare provisions of finance and financial forms, this article tangles with the affective attachments that grow out of insurance technologies. It investigates the place of these attachments (insurance fantasies) and the intimacies that …
Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital
Research Article| December 01 2006 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital. Social Text 1 December 2006; 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. doi: https://do…
Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes
Geeta Patel teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry(2002) and coeditor of the GLQ special issueInQueery/InTheory/InDeed (1995
Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’ from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia
This essay focuses on the anthology Same–Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Unlike many other recently published, celebratory ‘gay anthologies’, this book contributes to ongoing scholarly work on specific same–sex erotic practices and relations in historical and cultural context. We examine issues relevant to this anthology and other such projects: the use of ‘love’ and ‘same–s…
Antipode's Bound
Antipode's Bound
Between death and life
Ghostly Appearances
Research Article| September 01 2000 Ghostly Appearances: TIME TALES TALLIED UP Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 47–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-3_64-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Ghostly Appearances: TIME TALES TALLIED UP. Social Text 1 September 2000; 18 (3 (64)): 47–66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Mirror and breath: Grandmother and I
Crosscultural Sexuality
Research Article| May 01 1995 Crosscultural Sexuality Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 203–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-203 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Crosscultural Sexuality. Radical History Review 1 May 1995; 1995 (62): 203–208. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-203 Do…
Area Impossible
Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital
Research Article| December 01 2006 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital. Social Text 1 December 2006; 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. doi: https://do…
Imagining risk, care and security: Insurance and fantasy
This article envisions insurance through the ways in which it comes to inhabit the dailiness of people's lives. Insurance is usually constituted as a technology of risk. Rather than holding risk and insurance to the bare provisions of finance and financial forms, this article tangles with the affective attachments that grow out of insurance technologies. It investigates the place of these attachments (insurance fantasies) and the intimacies that …
Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes
Geeta Patel teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry(2002) and coeditor of the GLQ special issueInQueery/InTheory/InDeed (1995
Seeding Debt: Alchemy, Death, and the Precarious Farming of Life-Finance in the Global South
Time to Tell
Research Article| June 01 2007 TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 273–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 273–300. doi: https://doi.…
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism—Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyd…
Advertisements, Proprietary Heterosexuality, and Hundis: Postcolonial Finance, Nation-State Formations, and the New Idealized Family
How do nations, states, families, and finance come together? This paper argues that in the period following Indian independence the postcolonial nation can be understood as a family form of hundi, a promissory note held in a state of constant deferral. The hundi and an idealized family form are the means through which trust in the state that coagulates into a nation is established. This idealized family is a particular proper form of the mostly h…
Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’ from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia
This essay focuses on the anthology Same–Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Unlike many other recently published, celebratory ‘gay anthologies’, this book contributes to ongoing scholarly work on specific same–sex erotic practices and relations in historical and cultural context. We examine issues relevant to this anthology and other such projects: the use of ‘love’ and ‘same–s…
Crosscultural Sexuality
Research Article| May 01 1995 Crosscultural Sexuality Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 203–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-203 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Crosscultural Sexuality. Radical History Review 1 May 1995; 1995 (62): 203–208. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1995-62-203 Do…
Mirror and breath: Grandmother and I
Ghostly Appearances
Research Article| September 01 2000 Ghostly Appearances: TIME TALES TALLIED UP Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 47–66. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-3_64-47 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Ghostly Appearances: TIME TALES TALLIED UP. Social Text 1 September 2000; 18 (3 (64)): 47–66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1…
Tracking ‘Same–Sex Love’ from Antiquity to the Present in South Asia
This essay focuses on the anthology Same–Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History (2000), edited by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai. Unlike many other recently published, celebratory ‘gay anthologies’, this book contributes to ongoing scholarly work on specific same–sex erotic practices and relations in historical and cultural context. We examine issues relevant to this anthology and other such projects: the use of ‘love’ and ‘same–s…
Antipode's Bound
Antipode's Bound
Between death and life
Homely Housewives Run Amok: Lesbians in Marital Fixes
Geeta Patel teaches in the Department of Women's Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry(2002) and coeditor of the GLQ special issueInQueery/InTheory/InDeed (1995
Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital
Research Article| December 01 2006 Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2006) 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-2006-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; Risky Subjects: Insurance, Sexuality, and Capital. Social Text 1 December 2006; 24 (4 (89)): 25–65. doi: https://do…
Time to Tell
Research Article| June 01 2007 TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2007) 13 (2-3): 273–300. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2006-034 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Geeta Patel; TIME TO TELL: How to Tell the Proper Time? Finance and Cinema. GLQ 1 June 2007; 13 (2-3): 273–300. doi: https://doi.…
Imagining risk, care and security: Insurance and fantasy
This article envisions insurance through the ways in which it comes to inhabit the dailiness of people's lives. Insurance is usually constituted as a technology of risk. Rather than holding risk and insurance to the bare provisions of finance and financial forms, this article tangles with the affective attachments that grow out of insurance technologies. It investigates the place of these attachments (insurance fantasies) and the intimacies that …
Longing for Mourning
“Longing for Mourning” is a meditation on the verities of events that establish the ostensible stability of supposedly ordinary relationships—commitment, house-buying, and marriage. Influenced by the long history of meditations and commentarial literature on loss and aesthetics, this biographical essay is written as an aesthetic embodiment of theoretical positions. It ruminates on the forms through which time, death, loss, and repeated mourning t…
Advertisements, Proprietary Heterosexuality, and Hundis: Postcolonial Finance, Nation-State Formations, and the New Idealized Family
How do nations, states, families, and finance come together? This paper argues that in the period following Indian independence the postcolonial nation can be understood as a family form of hundi, a promissory note held in a state of constant deferral. The hundi and an idealized family form are the means through which trust in the state that coagulates into a nation is established. This idealized family is a particular proper form of the mostly h…
Document raj: Writing and scribes in early colonial south India , by Bhavani Raman
Early on, in the preface to Document Raj, Bhavani Raman turns to the phrase ‘textual habitus’ that comes from a particular French lineage of sociology and anthropology: ‘official intervention to mo
Seeding Debt: Alchemy, Death, and the Precarious Farming of Life-Finance in the Global South
Area Impossible
Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance
Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagements—including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism—Geeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyd…
Queer/Ivory Proclivities
Research Article| October 01 2018 Queer/Ivory Proclivities Geeta Patel Geeta Patel Geeta Patel is professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia. She started teaching queer theory in 1994. She is the author of two off-kilter queer books—Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry and Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, …
Gender Trouble in South Asia
It is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Gender Trouble by the feminist philosopher of gender, sexuality, and governmentality, Judith Butler. When Gender Trouble came out in the United States, it hit the stands like a hit; it transformed and unraveled the modalities through which ontologies and epistemologies of gender came to be. This was especially the case with the trouble, the disturbances, the turbulence that Gender Trouble carr…
Full Journal
The theme of Issue 34 of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations is Social Justice Action, Teaching, and Research. The first article of this issue, "The Art of Social Justice," features the works of a slam poet, Vanessa Pike-Vrtiak, an activist artist, Eduardo Valadez, and an overview of the social science literature capturing the role of art in social justice movements. The two artists featured are both active in their communities and worldwide…
Black Women’s Radical Religious Epistemologies in Mahogany and Steepled Towers
The essays in this issue explore the diverse ways in which Black women’s religious epistemologies challenge conventional theological narratives. From the African spiritualities of Nigeria and Jamaica to the anti-colonial politics of Senegal, Sudan, and South Africa, the contributors offer a rich tapestry of perspectives highlighting the radical nature of Black women’s religious knowledge production. Weaving an eclectic spectrum of spiritual pract…
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