Ranu Samantrai
Biographic Data
| ID | 146573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ranu Samantrai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ranu |
| FAMILY NAME | Samantrai |
| SIGNATURE | SAMANTRAI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
Cosmopolitan Cartographies: Art in a Divided World
I went on a journey, the first piece I saw by Zarina, is a bronze sculpture of a house on wheels. The work at once suggests mobility and the futility of motion. At first glance it indicates the easy mobility of a home on the road, but if the wheels on this house were to turn they would pull against each other. The motion suggested at best is interrupted and circular, never straying far from its point of origin, as though tethered. I could not dec…
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics. Irma McClaurin, ed. East Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 277 pp
AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation
Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a harmonious, fully consensual society is misguided. Ranu Samantrai argues that the proliferation of sources of dissent can hold liberal democratic nations accountable for their political promises. Eschewing the settlements between majority and minorit…
Ethics after Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading . Rey Chow Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture . Meaghan Morris
Claiming the Burden: Naipaul's Africa
In his work on epistemology of anthropological endeavor, Johannes Fabian argues that 'West constructs its relationship with the Rest (28) through a notion of time that affirms difference as distance' (16). Fabian is concerned primarily with notion of modernity, trope through which West locates itself and constructs differ? ence of its racial and cultural others. Inherent in his Politics of Time, how? ever, is a politics of sexuality that, in addi…
Continuity or Rupture
Research Article| September 01 2000 Continuity or Rupture?: AN ARGUMENT FOR SECULAR BRITAIN Ranu Samantrai Ranu Samantrai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 105–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-3_64-105 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
On Being the Object of Concern
I write from California, shortly after the passage of Proposition 9, the socalled Civil Rights Initiative that bans state-supported affirmative action programs. In California, debates regarding affirmative action and diversity, particularly within educational institutions, are urgent and acrimonious. In July 1995 the University of California Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action within the University of California system (SP-1: Resolut…
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics. Irma McClaurin, ed. East Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 277 pp
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
Cosmopolitan Cartographies: Art in a Divided World
I went on a journey, the first piece I saw by Zarina, is a bronze sculpture of a house on wheels. The work at once suggests mobility and the futility of motion. At first glance it indicates the easy mobility of a home on the road, but if the wheels on this house were to turn they would pull against each other. The motion suggested at best is interrupted and circular, never straying far from its point of origin, as though tethered. I could not dec…
On Being the Object of Concern
I write from California, shortly after the passage of Proposition 9, the socalled Civil Rights Initiative that bans state-supported affirmative action programs. In California, debates regarding affirmative action and diversity, particularly within educational institutions, are urgent and acrimonious. In July 1995 the University of California Board of Regents voted to end affirmative action within the University of California system (SP-1: Resolut…
Claiming the Burden: Naipaul's Africa
In his work on epistemology of anthropological endeavor, Johannes Fabian argues that 'West constructs its relationship with the Rest (28) through a notion of time that affirms difference as distance' (16). Fabian is concerned primarily with notion of modernity, trope through which West locates itself and constructs differ? ence of its racial and cultural others. Inherent in his Politics of Time, how? ever, is a politics of sexuality that, in addi…
Continuity or Rupture
Research Article| September 01 2000 Continuity or Rupture?: AN ARGUMENT FOR SECULAR BRITAIN Ranu Samantrai Ranu Samantrai Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 105–121. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-3_64-105 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon C…
Ethics after Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading . Rey Chow Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture . Meaghan Morris
AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the Postimperial Nation
Are the conflicts that accompany the growth of postcolonial ethnic, cultural, and religious diasporas undermining the political culture of first-world nations? AlterNatives explains why the hope of a harmonious, fully consensual society is misguided. Ranu Samantrai argues that the proliferation of sources of dissent can hold liberal democratic nations accountable for their political promises. Eschewing the settlements between majority and minorit…
Cosmopolitan Cartographies: Art in a Divided World
I went on a journey, the first piece I saw by Zarina, is a bronze sculpture of a house on wheels. The work at once suggests mobility and the futility of motion. At first glance it indicates the easy mobility of a home on the road, but if the wheels on this house were to turn they would pull against each other. The motion suggested at best is interrupted and circular, never straying far from its point of origin, as though tethered. I could not dec…
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics
Black Feminist Anthropology: Theory, Politics, Praxis and Poetics. Irma McClaurin, ed. East Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001. 277 pp
A Memorial to Octavia E. Butler
This introduction to the special section on Octavia Butler provides a brief review of her significance as an author of science fiction. When Butler began to publish, the genre was dominated by tales of adventure written in the heroic mode and featuring an extension into the future of familiar racial and gender hierarchies. To address the question of whether humanity is capable of meaningful change, Butler looked to the body. From the evolutionary…
Art (4 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works)