Payel Pal
Biographic Data
| ID | 204652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Payel Pal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Payel |
| FAMILY NAME | Pal |
| SIGNATURE | PAL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | LNM Institute of Information Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6240-7856 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Discontents of the Anthropocene: Developmentalism, the Wasteocene, and decoloniality in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green
Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green highlights the ecological and cultural changes occurring in the Pulaya community of Kerala, India, due to capitalist exploitation and extensive commodification of natural resources. The novel’s depictions of ecological devastation juxtaposed with pre-industrial pastoral beauty underscore the discontents of anthropocentrism, namely, the waste and disposability that contemporary capitalism perpetuates. In this context, …
Coloniality, (In)justice, and the Literature of the Global South
Neocolonial Cartographies: Uncovering Epistemic (In)Justice in Sarnath Banerjee’s Urban Comics
While coloniality refers to the persistence of colonial ideologies in power hierarchies and socio-economic and epistemic structures beyond the colonial epoch, neocolonialism operates within a similar framework of coloniality, exerting indirect authority over a nation’s economic and political systems. In India, neocolonial institutions and spaces began to emerge in prominence in the neoliberal era of the 1990s, when rampant urbanization policies w…
Ecology at the margins: Epistemic and environmental injustices in Rohan Chakravarty’s comics
The philosophy of colonial modernity inspired by the epistemology of Western Enlightenment has fostered a dualistic view of the human and non-human world, in which the former has been accorded a position of privilege and power to signify, while the latter is marginalised as silent and subservient ‘other.’ This ‘othering’ has been instrumental in perpetuating a capitalist episteme of progress and aggravating varied forms of environmental injustice…
Decoloniality, solidarity, and indigenous ecology: Reading Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Not Be Saved as hope in the Anthropocene
Masculinity, media, and public image: Review of the film An Action Hero
An Action Hero, the directorial debut of Anirudh Iyer, deftly brings to the foreground the representational politics of masculinity and media (Iyer, 2022). The film depicts the enactments of hyperb
Delinking gendered hierarchies and mediated representations: Review of the film Doctor G
Episteme, sports, and media: Review of the film Saina
Epistemologies of an Indian mother and media: Review of Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway
Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway (Chibber, 2023), an Indian Hindi-language legal drama film written and directed by Ashima Chibber, narrates the story of Indian immigrant Debika Chatterjee (played by Rani
Examining (in)justice, environmental activism and indigenous knowledge systems in the Indian film Kantara (Mystical Forest)
The acquisition of knowledge encompasses various dimensions that should be consolidated to facilitate a comprehensive and holistic advancement of its trajectory. In this context, the article explores the film Kantara: A Legend (Shetty in Kantara: a legend [film], Hombale Films, 2022), a Kannada-language production from India and its significance in highlighting the importance of indigenous knowledge systems, local customs, demigods and the sacred…
Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Visualizing ‘Epistemic Injustice’: Deciphering ‘Plurality’ in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories
Grievable/Disposable lives in the Anthropocene culture: Ecoprecarity, indigeneity and ecological wisdom in Kaala Paani
Traditional media and contemporary digital communication platforms have been instrumental in developing environmental awareness and educating the general public about the entrenched dangers of ecoprecarity. Visual references like ecocinema, short films, documentaries and television series have shown how the Anthropocene is affecting the world and how important human-centred survival models are. These visual references have played a big part in ec…
(In)visibility, Mediated, and Sporting Perceptions: Bollywood, Biopics, and the Epistemic Turn in Mary Kom
In recent years several Hindi films have been produced that delineate the difficulties and challenges faced by Indian athletes and boxers, and highlight their sociocultural struggles in asserting their pursuit of and passion for their sport. Mary Kom (2014) is one such Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom, a film that brings to the foreground the ingrained social prejudices, gender biases and m…
Delinking 'The Gentleman's Game: Visual Epistemic Representations in the FilmShabaash Mithu
Indian Hindi language sports drama films centered on cricket function as performative documentaries depicting the lives, accomplishments, and trajectories of cricketers playing for the India men’s national cricket team, also known as Team India or the Men in Blue. These films, as cultural artifacts, are embedded in the establishment of a homogeneous episteme that consistently fails to offer alternatives to unsustainable development and pluralism …
Politics of self-sacrifice and ecomedia: Review of Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
Postcolonial disjuncture: Kashmir as the other in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night
Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night (2008) is a perspicacious commentary on the violence, exile and dispossession that have wrecked the lives of ordinary Kashmiris since 1947. Peer compellingly ruminates on the gradual loss of the Kashmiris’ belongingness in the last few decades that eventually curtailed their sense of individual and collective selfhood. The present article aims to analyse how Peer’s memoir emerges as a crucial intervention in focusin…
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa's fiction
Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa's novels Mornings in Jenin (2010) and The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) capture the experience of the Palestinian community following Israeli occupation and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. This article explores the ways in which Abulhawa shows the dismantling of the national sovereignty of Palestine as having thrown the citizenry of the Palestinian Arabs into a state of disarray. D…
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa's fiction
Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa's novels Mornings in Jenin (2010) and The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) capture the experience of the Palestinian community following Israeli occupation and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. This article explores the ways in which Abulhawa shows the dismantling of the national sovereignty of Palestine as having thrown the citizenry of the Palestinian Arabs into a state of disarray. D…
Decoloniality, solidarity, and indigenous ecology: Reading Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Not Be Saved as hope in the Anthropocene
(In)visibility, Mediated, and Sporting Perceptions: Bollywood, Biopics, and the Epistemic Turn in Mary Kom
In recent years several Hindi films have been produced that delineate the difficulties and challenges faced by Indian athletes and boxers, and highlight their sociocultural struggles in asserting their pursuit of and passion for their sport. Mary Kom (2014) is one such Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom, a film that brings to the foreground the ingrained social prejudices, gender biases and m…
Delinking 'The Gentleman's Game: Visual Epistemic Representations in the FilmShabaash Mithu
Indian Hindi language sports drama films centered on cricket function as performative documentaries depicting the lives, accomplishments, and trajectories of cricketers playing for the India men’s national cricket team, also known as Team India or the Men in Blue. These films, as cultural artifacts, are embedded in the establishment of a homogeneous episteme that consistently fails to offer alternatives to unsustainable development and pluralism …
Politics of self-sacrifice and ecomedia: Review of Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
Postcolonial disjuncture: Kashmir as the other in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night
Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night (2008) is a perspicacious commentary on the violence, exile and dispossession that have wrecked the lives of ordinary Kashmiris since 1947. Peer compellingly ruminates on the gradual loss of the Kashmiris’ belongingness in the last few decades that eventually curtailed their sense of individual and collective selfhood. The present article aims to analyse how Peer’s memoir emerges as a crucial intervention in focusin…
Postcolonial disjuncture: Kashmir as the other in Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night
Basharat Peer’s Curfewed Night (2008) is a perspicacious commentary on the violence, exile and dispossession that have wrecked the lives of ordinary Kashmiris since 1947. Peer compellingly ruminates on the gradual loss of the Kashmiris’ belongingness in the last few decades that eventually curtailed their sense of individual and collective selfhood. The present article aims to analyse how Peer’s memoir emerges as a crucial intervention in focusin…
Nostalgia, identity, and homeland: Reading the narratives of the diaspora in Susan Abulhawa's fiction
Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa's novels Mornings in Jenin (2010) and The Blue Between Sky and Water (2015) capture the experience of the Palestinian community following Israeli occupation and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. This article explores the ways in which Abulhawa shows the dismantling of the national sovereignty of Palestine as having thrown the citizenry of the Palestinian Arabs into a state of disarray. D…
Politics of self-sacrifice and ecomedia: Review of Sherdil: The Pilibhit Saga (2022)
(In)visibility, Mediated, and Sporting Perceptions: Bollywood, Biopics, and the Epistemic Turn in Mary Kom
In recent years several Hindi films have been produced that delineate the difficulties and challenges faced by Indian athletes and boxers, and highlight their sociocultural struggles in asserting their pursuit of and passion for their sport. Mary Kom (2014) is one such Hindi-language biographical sports film based on the life of the eponymous boxer Mary Kom, a film that brings to the foreground the ingrained social prejudices, gender biases and m…
Delinking 'The Gentleman's Game: Visual Epistemic Representations in the FilmShabaash Mithu
Indian Hindi language sports drama films centered on cricket function as performative documentaries depicting the lives, accomplishments, and trajectories of cricketers playing for the India men’s national cricket team, also known as Team India or the Men in Blue. These films, as cultural artifacts, are embedded in the establishment of a homogeneous episteme that consistently fails to offer alternatives to unsustainable development and pluralism …
Masculinity, media, and public image: Review of the film An Action Hero
An Action Hero, the directorial debut of Anirudh Iyer, deftly brings to the foreground the representational politics of masculinity and media (Iyer, 2022). The film depicts the enactments of hyperb
Delinking gendered hierarchies and mediated representations: Review of the film Doctor G
Episteme, sports, and media: Review of the film Saina
Epistemologies of an Indian mother and media: Review of Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway
Mrs Chatterjee vs Norway (Chibber, 2023), an Indian Hindi-language legal drama film written and directed by Ashima Chibber, narrates the story of Indian immigrant Debika Chatterjee (played by Rani
Examining (in)justice, environmental activism and indigenous knowledge systems in the Indian film Kantara (Mystical Forest)
The acquisition of knowledge encompasses various dimensions that should be consolidated to facilitate a comprehensive and holistic advancement of its trajectory. In this context, the article explores the film Kantara: A Legend (Shetty in Kantara: a legend [film], Hombale Films, 2022), a Kannada-language production from India and its significance in highlighting the importance of indigenous knowledge systems, local customs, demigods and the sacred…
Graphic Activism and Epistemic Justice in Vanni: A Family’s Struggle Through the Sri Lankan Conflict
Visualizing ‘Epistemic Injustice’: Deciphering ‘Plurality’ in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories
Grievable/Disposable lives in the Anthropocene culture: Ecoprecarity, indigeneity and ecological wisdom in Kaala Paani
Traditional media and contemporary digital communication platforms have been instrumental in developing environmental awareness and educating the general public about the entrenched dangers of ecoprecarity. Visual references like ecocinema, short films, documentaries and television series have shown how the Anthropocene is affecting the world and how important human-centred survival models are. These visual references have played a big part in ec…
Ecology at the margins: Epistemic and environmental injustices in Rohan Chakravarty’s comics
The philosophy of colonial modernity inspired by the epistemology of Western Enlightenment has fostered a dualistic view of the human and non-human world, in which the former has been accorded a position of privilege and power to signify, while the latter is marginalised as silent and subservient ‘other.’ This ‘othering’ has been instrumental in perpetuating a capitalist episteme of progress and aggravating varied forms of environmental injustice…
Decoloniality, solidarity, and indigenous ecology: Reading Nemonte Nenquimo's We Will Not Be Saved as hope in the Anthropocene
Discontents of the Anthropocene: Developmentalism, the Wasteocene, and decoloniality in Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green
Sarah Joseph’s Gift in Green highlights the ecological and cultural changes occurring in the Pulaya community of Kerala, India, due to capitalist exploitation and extensive commodification of natural resources. The novel’s depictions of ecological devastation juxtaposed with pre-industrial pastoral beauty underscore the discontents of anthropocentrism, namely, the waste and disposability that contemporary capitalism perpetuates. In this context, …
Coloniality, (In)justice, and the Literature of the Global South
Neocolonial Cartographies: Uncovering Epistemic (In)Justice in Sarnath Banerjee’s Urban Comics
While coloniality refers to the persistence of colonial ideologies in power hierarchies and socio-economic and epistemic structures beyond the colonial epoch, neocolonialism operates within a similar framework of coloniality, exerting indirect authority over a nation’s economic and political systems. In India, neocolonial institutions and spaces began to emerge in prominence in the neoliberal era of the 1990s, when rampant urbanization policies w…
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