Kamala Visweswaran
Biographic Data
| ID | 142861 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kamala Visweswaran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kamala |
| FAMILY NAME | Visweswaran |
| SIGNATURE | VISWESWARAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Chapter 2. Race and the Culture of Anthropology
September 11
The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist perspectives on the impact of war and fundamentalism on women's lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other pieces analyze the ways in which racist representations of Muslim women and of Islam have come to play a key part in colonial…
My words were not cared for: Customary law, criminality and the 'woman question' in late colonial India
Drawing upon the court case of one woman sentenced for killing her infant in the early decades of the last century, this article reads Pierre Bourdieu's insight on how the trial stages conflicts produced in the social realm as a paradox for explaining how British administrators and Indian village officials negotiated non-conflicting codes of sexual and moral conduct on the basis of colonial ideology and locally fixed caste hierarchies to convict …
Dying Worlds
Introduction: Geographies of Everyday Occupation
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East
Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination.
Saadia Toor. The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan
Occupier/occupied
As military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and socialist regimes, this essay asks why it is foundational for sovereignty and the post-war state-form. In particular, it questions the complicity of post-colonial theory with security discourses in reading movements for self-determination as threats to the state or as forms of terrorism rather than as alternate possibilities for freedom …
Conclusion: Fragile Facts On Scholarship and Activism
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India. Raka Ray , Seemin Qayum
Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference
In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism-the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive-produces a view of uncommon defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an ana…
Books
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India. Sharad Chari. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 379 pp
Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and South East Asia
Becoming American, Becoming Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City (review)
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of. Racial Frontier. David Palumbo-Liu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 504 pp
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement . Caren Kaplan Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives . Anne McClintock , Aamir Mufti , Ella Shohat
On the Politics of Community in South Asian-American Studies
Affective States
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Positions, Special Issue: "New Formations, New Questions, Asian American Studies" (review)
Reviewed by: POSITIONS, Special Issue; “New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies Kamala Visweswaran POSITIONS, Special Issue; “New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies.” Edited by Elaine Kim and Lisa Lowe. Durham: Duke University, 1997. The journal Positions was founded in 1993 with the objective of providing “a new forum of debate for all concerned with the social, intellectual, and political events unfolding in East As…
A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender
Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Henrietta Moore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. ix +177 pp., bibliography, notes, index
Race and the Culture of Anthropology
The number of panels on "multiculturalism" and "cultural studies" at the AAA's annual meetings has increased significantly. Many anthropologists believe that the discipline has been in the vanguard of debates on racism and multiculturalism, that it stands for precisely those issues raised in the "culture wars": the equal valuation of all cultures. Yet this is not the case.Multiculturalism and cultural studies have emerged as counterdisciplinary f…
Histories of Feminist Ethnography
This review essay illustrates how changes in the conception of gender define the historical production of feminist ethnography in four distinct periods. In the first period (1880–1920), biological sex was seen to determine social roles, and gender was not seen as separable from sex, though it was beginning to emerge as an analytical category. The second period (1920–1960) marks the separation of sex from gender as sex was increasingly seen as ind…
Race and the Culture of Anthropology
The number of panels on "multiculturalism" and "cultural studies" at the AAA's annual meetings has increased significantly. Many anthropologists believe that the discipline has been in the vanguard of debates on racism and multiculturalism, that it stands for precisely those issues raised in the "culture wars": the equal valuation of all cultures. Yet this is not the case.Multiculturalism and cultural studies have emerged as counterdisciplinary f…
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Rereading Cultural Anthropology . George C. Marcus , ed
Diaspora by Design: Flexible Citizenship and South Asians in U.S. Racial Formations
Diaspora 6:1 1997 WÊ Diaspora by Design:1 Flexible Citizenship and South Asians in U.S. Racial Formations Kamala Visweswaran2 University of Texas, Austin My inclinations are strongly antiracist and sympathetic to minorities . My family endured European colonialism in India for many generations, and my great-grandfather was killed by the British army for alleged insubordination. In the United States I am no stranger to xenophobia, prejudice and di…
A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender
Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Henrietta Moore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. ix +177 pp., bibliography, notes, index
Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and South East Asia
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
Occupier/occupied
As military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and socialist regimes, this essay asks why it is foundational for sovereignty and the post-war state-form. In particular, it questions the complicity of post-colonial theory with security discourses in reading movements for self-determination as threats to the state or as forms of terrorism rather than as alternate possibilities for freedom …
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of. Racial Frontier. David Palumbo-Liu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 504 pp
Affective States
Conclusion: Fragile Facts On Scholarship and Activism
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India. Sharad Chari. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 379 pp
Fictions of Feminist Ethnography
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
General/Theoretical Anthropology: Rereading Cultural Anthropology . George C. Marcus , ed
Histories of Feminist Ethnography
This review essay illustrates how changes in the conception of gender define the historical production of feminist ethnography in four distinct periods. In the first period (1880–1920), biological sex was seen to determine social roles, and gender was not seen as separable from sex, though it was beginning to emerge as an analytical category. The second period (1920–1960) marks the separation of sex from gender as sex was increasingly seen as ind…
Diaspora by Design: Flexible Citizenship and South Asians in U.S. Racial Formations
Diaspora 6:1 1997 WÊ Diaspora by Design:1 Flexible Citizenship and South Asians in U.S. Racial Formations Kamala Visweswaran2 University of Texas, Austin My inclinations are strongly antiracist and sympathetic to minorities . My family endured European colonialism in India for many generations, and my great-grandfather was killed by the British army for alleged insubordination. In the United States I am no stranger to xenophobia, prejudice and di…
Feminist Dilemmas In Fieldwork
Feminist Dilemmas In Fieldwork. DIANE L. WOLF, ed. Albany, NY and Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. xiv + 226 pp., notes, references, contributors
Gender and American Social Science: The Formative Years
This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contr…
Positions, Special Issue: "New Formations, New Questions, Asian American Studies" (review)
Reviewed by: POSITIONS, Special Issue; “New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies Kamala Visweswaran POSITIONS, Special Issue; “New Formations, New Questions: Asian American Studies.” Edited by Elaine Kim and Lisa Lowe. Durham: Duke University, 1997. The journal Positions was founded in 1993 with the objective of providing “a new forum of debate for all concerned with the social, intellectual, and political events unfolding in East As…
A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender
Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender. Henrietta Moore. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. ix +177 pp., bibliography, notes, index
Race and the Culture of Anthropology
The number of panels on "multiculturalism" and "cultural studies" at the AAA's annual meetings has increased significantly. Many anthropologists believe that the discipline has been in the vanguard of debates on racism and multiculturalism, that it stands for precisely those issues raised in the "culture wars": the equal valuation of all cultures. Yet this is not the case.Multiculturalism and cultural studies have emerged as counterdisciplinary f…
On the Politics of Community in South Asian-American Studies
Affective States
Questions of Travel: Postmodern Discourses of Displacement . Caren Kaplan Dangerous Liaisons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives . Anne McClintock , Aamir Mufti , Ella Shohat
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier
Asian/American: Historical Crossings of. Racial Frontier. David Palumbo-Liu. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 504 pp
Becoming American, Becoming Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City (review)
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and South East Asia
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India
Fraternal Capital: Peasant Workers, Self-Made Men and Globalization in Provincial India. Sharad Chari. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. 379 pp
Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference
In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism-the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive-produces a view of uncommon defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an ana…
Books
Conclusion: Fragile Facts On Scholarship and Activism
Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India. Raka Ray , Seemin Qayum
Occupier/occupied
As military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and socialist regimes, this essay asks why it is foundational for sovereignty and the post-war state-form. In particular, it questions the complicity of post-colonial theory with security discourses in reading movements for self-determination as threats to the state or as forms of terrorism rather than as alternate possibilities for freedom …
Introduction: Geographies of Everyday Occupation
Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East
Everyday Occupations engages visual culture and the ethnography of space, satire and parody, poetry and political critique to examine militarization as it is wielded as a cultural and political tool, and as it is experienced as a material form of violence and symbolic domination.
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