Ritty A Lukose
Biographic Data
| ID | 146697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ritty A Lukose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ritty A |
| FAMILY NAME | Lukose |
| SIGNATURE | LUKOSE R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Gendered modernities, neoliberal subjects: Aspirational cities in inter-Asia perspective
Digital mediation is the context in which we propose to look at the aspirational lives of young women in Asia’s neoliberal cities. However, this context emerges out of longer histories of social change through which gendered modernities have taken shape. Modernity within non-Western contexts, we propose, unfolds in uneven and distinctive ways, whether the society in question has been formally colonised or not. To understand contemporary transform…
Digital intimacy: Young women in inter-Asia
The Introduction lays out the context and the concepts that undergird the multi-sited inter-Asia research project concluded in 2022 on college-going women and digital intimacy that is the basis of this special issue. We draw on the frameworks of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies to argue that inter-referencing, through multiplying reference points across our four sites within the region, orients our research through local/national/global routes that no…
CER Moderated Discussion on “‘Participation Does Not Equal Voice’: Gendered Experiences in an Academic and Professional Society”
Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India
Through a discussion of the articles in this collection, the introduction explores the ways in which the inhabitations of liberalisation require and necessitate intensive self-fashioning from citizens. We call this protracted work on the self, which unsettles enduring pathways of social reproduction and avenues of social mobility, pedagogies of aspiration. Moving beyond debates about efficient markets versus a redistributive state as the ideal pr…
Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era
This article explores what it means to decolonize feminism in the university today. Pushing against the idea that feminism in the university is disengaged from broader struggles, the article suggests a complex relationship between feminism as a knowledge project and as a political one. While feminism has had a long-standing decolonizing imperative within the university, equally challenging has been the decolonization of feminism. The #MeToo era h…
South Asian Feminisms
Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
Liberalization’s Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between “midnight’s children,” who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and “liberalization’s children,” who are global in outlook and unapologetically consumerist. Moral panics about beauty pageants and the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day refle…
The Difference that Diaspora Makes: Thinking through the Anthropology of Immigrant Education in the United States
In this article, I examine the possibility of a productive dialogue between diaspora studies and the anthropology of immigrant education in the United States. Arguing that their respective views on the nation-state is a key source for their different orientations toward migrant social and cultural worlds, I nevertheless argue that an engagement between these two fields of study will yield more critical understandings of nationalism, the category …
Re(casting) the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India
The anthropology of caste in India has conventionally rendered caste as a category of traditional religion, something that has been challenged by a historical anthropology of caste and its transformations under colonialism. Given this deconstruction of caste as tradition, how are we to approach its highly charged and contested presence within contemporary democratic politics in India? Examining the everyday institutional workings of secularism an…
Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India
In much popular discourse, a short-hand way to mark the advent and impact of globalization is to point to the evidence of "global" youth consuming practices and symbols in often remote corners of the world: during the 1990s, for example, the popularity of the basketball star Michael Jordan and his team the Chicago Bulls in the slums of Brazil and in rural villages in Africa, the spread of hip-hop music around the world, and the popularity of McDo…
Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization
Globalization is often indexed by the rise of a consumerist ethos and the expansion of the market economy at the expense of state-centric formulations of politics and citizenship. This article explores the politics and practices of gendered democratic citizenship in an educational setting when that setting is newly reconfigured as a commodity under neoliberal privatization efforts. This entails an attention to discourses of consumption as they in…
Imagined Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts
Imagined Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts. MARIANNE GULLESTAD, ed. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996. viii + 244 pp., notes, references, contributors
Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization
Globalization is often indexed by the rise of a consumerist ethos and the expansion of the market economy at the expense of state-centric formulations of politics and citizenship. This article explores the politics and practices of gendered democratic citizenship in an educational setting when that setting is newly reconfigured as a commodity under neoliberal privatization efforts. This entails an attention to discourses of consumption as they in…
Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India
In much popular discourse, a short-hand way to mark the advent and impact of globalization is to point to the evidence of "global" youth consuming practices and symbols in often remote corners of the world: during the 1990s, for example, the popularity of the basketball star Michael Jordan and his team the Chicago Bulls in the slums of Brazil and in rural villages in Africa, the spread of hip-hop music around the world, and the popularity of McDo…
The Difference that Diaspora Makes: Thinking through the Anthropology of Immigrant Education in the United States
In this article, I examine the possibility of a productive dialogue between diaspora studies and the anthropology of immigrant education in the United States. Arguing that their respective views on the nation-state is a key source for their different orientations toward migrant social and cultural worlds, I nevertheless argue that an engagement between these two fields of study will yield more critical understandings of nationalism, the category …
Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India
Through a discussion of the articles in this collection, the introduction explores the ways in which the inhabitations of liberalisation require and necessitate intensive self-fashioning from citizens. We call this protracted work on the self, which unsettles enduring pathways of social reproduction and avenues of social mobility, pedagogies of aspiration. Moving beyond debates about efficient markets versus a redistributive state as the ideal pr…
Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era
This article explores what it means to decolonize feminism in the university today. Pushing against the idea that feminism in the university is disengaged from broader struggles, the article suggests a complex relationship between feminism as a knowledge project and as a political one. While feminism has had a long-standing decolonizing imperative within the university, equally challenging has been the decolonization of feminism. The #MeToo era h…
Digital intimacy: Young women in inter-Asia
The Introduction lays out the context and the concepts that undergird the multi-sited inter-Asia research project concluded in 2022 on college-going women and digital intimacy that is the basis of this special issue. We draw on the frameworks of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies to argue that inter-referencing, through multiplying reference points across our four sites within the region, orients our research through local/national/global routes that no…
Imagined Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts
Imagined Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts. MARIANNE GULLESTAD, ed. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1996. viii + 244 pp., notes, references, contributors
Consuming Globalization: Youth and Gender in Kerala, India
In much popular discourse, a short-hand way to mark the advent and impact of globalization is to point to the evidence of "global" youth consuming practices and symbols in often remote corners of the world: during the 1990s, for example, the popularity of the basketball star Michael Jordan and his team the Chicago Bulls in the slums of Brazil and in rural villages in Africa, the spread of hip-hop music around the world, and the popularity of McDo…
Empty Citizenship: Protesting Politics in the Era of Globalization
Globalization is often indexed by the rise of a consumerist ethos and the expansion of the market economy at the expense of state-centric formulations of politics and citizenship. This article explores the politics and practices of gendered democratic citizenship in an educational setting when that setting is newly reconfigured as a commodity under neoliberal privatization efforts. This entails an attention to discourses of consumption as they in…
Re(casting) the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India
The anthropology of caste in India has conventionally rendered caste as a category of traditional religion, something that has been challenged by a historical anthropology of caste and its transformations under colonialism. Given this deconstruction of caste as tradition, how are we to approach its highly charged and contested presence within contemporary democratic politics in India? Examining the everyday institutional workings of secularism an…
The Difference that Diaspora Makes: Thinking through the Anthropology of Immigrant Education in the United States
In this article, I examine the possibility of a productive dialogue between diaspora studies and the anthropology of immigrant education in the United States. Arguing that their respective views on the nation-state is a key source for their different orientations toward migrant social and cultural worlds, I nevertheless argue that an engagement between these two fields of study will yield more critical understandings of nationalism, the category …
Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
Liberalization’s Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between “midnight’s children,” who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and “liberalization’s children,” who are global in outlook and unapologetically consumerist. Moral panics about beauty pageants and the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day refle…
South Asian Feminisms
Decolonizing Feminism in the #MeToo Era
This article explores what it means to decolonize feminism in the university today. Pushing against the idea that feminism in the university is disengaged from broader struggles, the article suggests a complex relationship between feminism as a knowledge project and as a political one. While feminism has had a long-standing decolonizing imperative within the university, equally challenging has been the decolonization of feminism. The #MeToo era h…
Pedagogies of Aspiration: Anthropological Perspectives on Education in Liberalising India
Through a discussion of the articles in this collection, the introduction explores the ways in which the inhabitations of liberalisation require and necessitate intensive self-fashioning from citizens. We call this protracted work on the self, which unsettles enduring pathways of social reproduction and avenues of social mobility, pedagogies of aspiration. Moving beyond debates about efficient markets versus a redistributive state as the ideal pr…
CER Moderated Discussion on “‘Participation Does Not Equal Voice’: Gendered Experiences in an Academic and Professional Society”
Gendered modernities, neoliberal subjects: Aspirational cities in inter-Asia perspective
Digital mediation is the context in which we propose to look at the aspirational lives of young women in Asia’s neoliberal cities. However, this context emerges out of longer histories of social change through which gendered modernities have taken shape. Modernity within non-Western contexts, we propose, unfolds in uneven and distinctive ways, whether the society in question has been formally colonised or not. To understand contemporary transform…
Digital intimacy: Young women in inter-Asia
The Introduction lays out the context and the concepts that undergird the multi-sited inter-Asia research project concluded in 2022 on college-going women and digital intimacy that is the basis of this special issue. We draw on the frameworks of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies to argue that inter-referencing, through multiplying reference points across our four sites within the region, orients our research through local/national/global routes that no…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)