Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1696124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lakshmi Padmanabhan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lakshmi |
| FAMILY NAME | Padmanabhan |
| SIGNATURE | PADMANABHAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Queer Failures
A Feminist Still
What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines the political stakes of documentary photography’s formal conventions. First, it analyzes candid snapshots of recent protests for women’s rights in India, focusing on an iconic photog…
Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
Death beyond disavowal
Bringing out our dead“I felt called by the dead, and I felt that I had to acknowledge those who had died, as a way of reckoning with, to quote Audre Lorde, ‘the deaths we are expected to live’” (15
Letter from India
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Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
Letter from India
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Death beyond disavowal
Bringing out our dead“I felt called by the dead, and I felt that I had to acknowledge those who had died, as a way of reckoning with, to quote Audre Lorde, ‘the deaths we are expected to live’” (15
Introduction toPerforming Refusal/Refusing to Perform
This introduction outlines an aesthetic of refusal as it emerges from instances of racialized exhaustion. Described as an aesthetics of minoritarian inaction and non-reproductivity, refusal challenges the centrality of action and repetition as the central tenets of political performance. Instead, the two valences of performing refusal/refusing to perform name an ethics of relation under racial capitalism, negating the dialectic of assimilation or…
A Feminist Still
What can photographic form teach us about feminist historiography? Through close readings of photographs by visual artist and documentary photographer Sheba Chhachhi, who documented the struggle for women’s rights in India from the 1980s onward, this article outlines the political stakes of documentary photography’s formal conventions. First, it analyzes candid snapshots of recent protests for women’s rights in India, focusing on an iconic photog…
Queer Failures
Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)