D Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 21197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-3519-2375 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
After Munich 1972: How the US and Israel Weaponized Terrorism
This article argues that the long-standing Zionist discourse of “self-defense” from “terrorism”—used to justify the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza—emerged in the late 1960s and escalated in the wake of the September 1972 Munich Olympics incident when Palestinian activists took Israeli athletes hostage. UN Resolution 3034, adopted that December, condemned attacks on civilians but also stressed that colonial domination breeds violence and that co…
A conceptual study of menstruation taboos and intangible pain
The neoliberal origins of contemporary anti-Muslim racism
The importance of personal interviews in assessing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in India
Communication and race: The paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism
The field of Communication has been critiqued for its failure to take race seriously. This article contributes to this ongoing discussion through a focus on anti-Muslim racism scholarship. Six NCA and ICA journals with a track record of publishing articles on race have so far published only seven articles on Muslim racialization; the new journal Communication and Race does not include Arabs or Muslims in its purview. This essay points to the pauc…
Saracens, Moors and Islam: Was there a Muslim race in medieval Europe
Against the view that antecedents to modern racism can be found in medieval Europe’s depictions of Moors, Saracens and the prophet Muhammad, this article demonstrates that representations of Muslims from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries were both respectful and resentful, lacking the kind of coherence necessary to show a pattern of racialisation. Rather than reflecting a structural continuity with the Orientalism that emerged in the ninetee…
Sexual health and quality of life: Study on prostate cancer patients treated with modern 6MV X-ray radiation therapy
This study aimed to compare the sexual quality of life through pre-defined parameters of prostate cancer (PCa) patients with pre-and-post- volumetric modulated arc radiation therapy (VMAT) and to examine their association with the radiation doses of the penile bulb (PB) and patient peculiarity. In this retrospective study, we analyzed medical record data of 100 patients who received definitive external radiation therapy (RT) and hormone therapy (…
Rightwing and Liberal Islamophobia: The Change of Imperial Guard from Trump to Biden
When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election, the world waited with bated breath for a new US president to restore the old order. The Trump presidency was extraordinary; it was the mos
Terrorcraft: Empire and the Making of the Racialised Terrorist Threat
Terrorism is so associated with Arabs, Muslims and South Asians that it has become common sense in the post 9/11 world. Drawing on various bodies of scholarship, this article traces the complex evolution of 'race' in relation to Arabs and Muslims from the 1960s to mid-'80s, alongside changing notions of 'terrorism', to advance an argument about the historically contingent nature of the racialised terrorist threat. The author argues that 'terrorcr…
Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic efficacy of skin and seed extracts of Momordica cymbalaria on alloxan induced diabetic model in rats
See Something, Say Something: Security Rituals, Affect, and US Nationalism from the Cold War to the War on Terror
This article examines “security rituals,” routinized and repetitive performances of security practices, and their role in reproducing US nationalism and militarism. It argues that the security ritual as a form emerges out of the Cold War. Its revival in the war on terror era, which has seen a massive expansion of the national security state, marks a continuity of Cold War emotion management and national security affect. Employing Michael Billig’s…
The Right Kind of “Islam”: News media representations of US-Saudi relations during the Cold War
Scholarship on the representation of Islam in the media has rightly focused on its negative dimensions, particularly since the events of 9/11. However, “Islam” has not always been a negative construct. During the Cold War, the United States sought to promote “Islam” as a bulwark against secular nationalism. Saudi Arabia was central to this policy. In this paper, I study the coverage of the US–Saudi policy of harnessing Islam to serve larger polit…
Race, ideology, and empire
Mediating Racism
The far right in the United States has ratcheted up anti-Muslim racism in the twenty-first century. However, they are not alone in creating and circulating the discourses of Islamophobia. In this paper, I set out to situate the far right, who I call the ‘new McCarthyites’, within the broader context in which they operate. I argue that they are part of a larger matrix of Islamophobia which includes the liberal establishment. I start with a concret…
Gellnerian Theory of Nation and Nationalism: A Critical Appraisal
Nationalism continues to have enormous power. The formulation that it has weakened or would weaken in a modern and globalised context needs to be viewed in a problematical manner. There are instances of nationalist resurgence not only in the so-called 'underdeveloped' countries but also in highly developed and 'modern' countries. The power that nationalism demonstrates now and then continues to demand our attention in terms of analysing and expla…
Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism During the Bush II Era
Since the events of 9/11, the range of debate on issues pertaining to Muslims or Islam has narrowed to a point where Orientalist modes of thought are once again dominant. The "clash of civilizations" thesis eschewed by the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, was adopted and promoted by the Bush Jr. administration. Since this ideological shift was articulated by the "primary definers of news" in a climate of fear and intimidation, it acquired th…
Leave the Driving to Us
like organized labor was making a comeback, particularly as a voice for contingent workers. As Deepa Kumar recounts in Outside The Box, 1 85,000 Teamsters went into battle against United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1997, under recently re-elected reform leadership. The result was a successful ten-day strike that protested mistreatment of part-timers not only at UPS but throughout the U.S. Still basking in the glow of his own election two years before…
Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management During the 2003 Iraq War
It is now widely acknowledged that the Bush administration used faulty and false information to justify the 2003 war on Iraq, and that the mainstream media, by not adequately investigating the case for war, assisted with the project. In this paper, I outline the particular strategies employed by the media–military industrial complex to ensure a dominance of pro-war arguments in the public sphere. I conclude by arguing that the failure of the medi…
Book and Film Review: A Film by Brigitte Brault and the Aina Women Filming Group. Afghanistan Unveiled and a Film by Yassamin Maleknasr. Afghanistan, the Lost Truth , 2003
Unveiling imperialism: Media, gender and the war on Afghanistan
The oppression of Afghan women by fundamentalist groups was barely addressed by the corporate media until it proved rhetorically useful for US elites to argue for military intervention as a means to liberate the women of that country. This article critically interrogates this claim, and analyzes media coverage of Afghan women before and after the US invasion on 7 October 2001. First, we present an overview of conflicts in Afghanistan, focusing on…
What’s Good for UPS is Good for America: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike
The 1997 United Parcel Service (UPS) strike highlighted the conflict of interests between corporations and their employees, challenging the notion that the 1990s economic recovery had benefited all Americans equally. Television coverage of this strike, however, failed to reflect the class nature of this conflict. Instead, it framed the strike in nationalist terms and projected the interests of business onto the nation by constructing a harmonious…
War propaganda and the (AB)uses of women: Media constructions of the Jessica Lynch story
The “rescue” of Private Jessica Lynch was one of the most extensively covered events of the 2003 US‐led war on Iraq. In the 14 days after her rescue, Lynch drew 919 references in major newspapers
Mass Media, New Communication Technology, and the Prospects for Democracy Internationally
Books reviewed: Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions, Patrick H. O'Neil, ed. Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, eds
Serological and biochemical investigations among the Gollas of Andhra Pradesh, India
Autorzy zbadali częstość fenotypów i określili częstość genów dla układów grupowych (ABO, Rh, MN, Wydzielacz) oraz białek osocza (haptoglobiny, transferyny, albuminy) u 196 niespokrewnionych osobników z grupy Puna Golla, prymitywnych pasterzy żyjących na południu Indii. Wyniki zestawiono w tabeli 1. Z porównania wyników niniejszego opracowania, z danymi dotyczącymi grup ludzkich sąsiadujących z Golla można wnioskować, że ludy pasterskie południa …
Caste and Landlessness in South India
In 1956 there were 16.3 million agricultural labour households in India, roughly one out of three for Indian agriculture as a whole. Their number has been rapidly increasing; in 1900 only 12 per cent of the agricultural population were landless labourers. It is tempting to see the creation of this huge landless class as yet another verification of a general theory of development which seems to apply to Japan and to much of South-East Asia, as wel…
Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism During the Bush II Era
Since the events of 9/11, the range of debate on issues pertaining to Muslims or Islam has narrowed to a point where Orientalist modes of thought are once again dominant. The "clash of civilizations" thesis eschewed by the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, was adopted and promoted by the Bush Jr. administration. Since this ideological shift was articulated by the "primary definers of news" in a climate of fear and intimidation, it acquired th…
Unveiling imperialism: Media, gender and the war on Afghanistan
The oppression of Afghan women by fundamentalist groups was barely addressed by the corporate media until it proved rhetorically useful for US elites to argue for military intervention as a means to liberate the women of that country. This article critically interrogates this claim, and analyzes media coverage of Afghan women before and after the US invasion on 7 October 2001. First, we present an overview of conflicts in Afghanistan, focusing on…
Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management During the 2003 Iraq War
It is now widely acknowledged that the Bush administration used faulty and false information to justify the 2003 war on Iraq, and that the mainstream media, by not adequately investigating the case for war, assisted with the project. In this paper, I outline the particular strategies employed by the media–military industrial complex to ensure a dominance of pro-war arguments in the public sphere. I conclude by arguing that the failure of the medi…
War propaganda and the (AB)uses of women: Media constructions of the Jessica Lynch story
The “rescue” of Private Jessica Lynch was one of the most extensively covered events of the 2003 US‐led war on Iraq. In the 14 days after her rescue, Lynch drew 919 references in major newspapers
Terrorcraft: Empire and the Making of the Racialised Terrorist Threat
Terrorism is so associated with Arabs, Muslims and South Asians that it has become common sense in the post 9/11 world. Drawing on various bodies of scholarship, this article traces the complex evolution of 'race' in relation to Arabs and Muslims from the 1960s to mid-'80s, alongside changing notions of 'terrorism', to advance an argument about the historically contingent nature of the racialised terrorist threat. The author argues that 'terrorcr…
Mediating Racism
The far right in the United States has ratcheted up anti-Muslim racism in the twenty-first century. However, they are not alone in creating and circulating the discourses of Islamophobia. In this paper, I set out to situate the far right, who I call the ‘new McCarthyites’, within the broader context in which they operate. I argue that they are part of a larger matrix of Islamophobia which includes the liberal establishment. I start with a concret…
What’s Good for UPS is Good for America: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike
The 1997 United Parcel Service (UPS) strike highlighted the conflict of interests between corporations and their employees, challenging the notion that the 1990s economic recovery had benefited all Americans equally. Television coverage of this strike, however, failed to reflect the class nature of this conflict. Instead, it framed the strike in nationalist terms and projected the interests of business onto the nation by constructing a harmonious…
The neoliberal origins of contemporary anti-Muslim racism
Caste and Landlessness in South India
In 1956 there were 16.3 million agricultural labour households in India, roughly one out of three for Indian agriculture as a whole. Their number has been rapidly increasing; in 1900 only 12 per cent of the agricultural population were landless labourers. It is tempting to see the creation of this huge landless class as yet another verification of a general theory of development which seems to apply to Japan and to much of South-East Asia, as wel…
Rightwing and Liberal Islamophobia: The Change of Imperial Guard from Trump to Biden
When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election, the world waited with bated breath for a new US president to restore the old order. The Trump presidency was extraordinary; it was the mos
The Right Kind of “Islam”: News media representations of US-Saudi relations during the Cold War
Scholarship on the representation of Islam in the media has rightly focused on its negative dimensions, particularly since the events of 9/11. However, “Islam” has not always been a negative construct. During the Cold War, the United States sought to promote “Islam” as a bulwark against secular nationalism. Saudi Arabia was central to this policy. In this paper, I study the coverage of the US–Saudi policy of harnessing Islam to serve larger polit…
Caste and Landlessness in South India
In 1956 there were 16.3 million agricultural labour households in India, roughly one out of three for Indian agriculture as a whole. Their number has been rapidly increasing; in 1900 only 12 per cent of the agricultural population were landless labourers. It is tempting to see the creation of this huge landless class as yet another verification of a general theory of development which seems to apply to Japan and to much of South-East Asia, as wel…
Serological and biochemical investigations among the Gollas of Andhra Pradesh, India
Autorzy zbadali częstość fenotypów i określili częstość genów dla układów grupowych (ABO, Rh, MN, Wydzielacz) oraz białek osocza (haptoglobiny, transferyny, albuminy) u 196 niespokrewnionych osobników z grupy Puna Golla, prymitywnych pasterzy żyjących na południu Indii. Wyniki zestawiono w tabeli 1. Z porównania wyników niniejszego opracowania, z danymi dotyczącymi grup ludzkich sąsiadujących z Golla można wnioskować, że ludy pasterskie południa …
Mass Media, New Communication Technology, and the Prospects for Democracy Internationally
Books reviewed: Communicating Democracy: The Media and Political Transitions, Patrick H. O'Neil, ed. Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution, Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, eds
War propaganda and the (AB)uses of women: Media constructions of the Jessica Lynch story
The “rescue” of Private Jessica Lynch was one of the most extensively covered events of the 2003 US‐led war on Iraq. In the 14 days after her rescue, Lynch drew 919 references in major newspapers
Book and Film Review: A Film by Brigitte Brault and the Aina Women Filming Group. Afghanistan Unveiled and a Film by Yassamin Maleknasr. Afghanistan, the Lost Truth , 2003
Unveiling imperialism: Media, gender and the war on Afghanistan
The oppression of Afghan women by fundamentalist groups was barely addressed by the corporate media until it proved rhetorically useful for US elites to argue for military intervention as a means to liberate the women of that country. This article critically interrogates this claim, and analyzes media coverage of Afghan women before and after the US invasion on 7 October 2001. First, we present an overview of conflicts in Afghanistan, focusing on…
What’s Good for UPS is Good for America: Nation and Class in Network Television News Coverage of the UPS Strike
The 1997 United Parcel Service (UPS) strike highlighted the conflict of interests between corporations and their employees, challenging the notion that the 1990s economic recovery had benefited all Americans equally. Television coverage of this strike, however, failed to reflect the class nature of this conflict. Instead, it framed the strike in nationalist terms and projected the interests of business onto the nation by constructing a harmonious…
Media, War, and Propaganda: Strategies of Information Management During the 2003 Iraq War
It is now widely acknowledged that the Bush administration used faulty and false information to justify the 2003 war on Iraq, and that the mainstream media, by not adequately investigating the case for war, assisted with the project. In this paper, I outline the particular strategies employed by the media–military industrial complex to ensure a dominance of pro-war arguments in the public sphere. I conclude by arguing that the failure of the medi…
Leave the Driving to Us
like organized labor was making a comeback, particularly as a voice for contingent workers. As Deepa Kumar recounts in Outside The Box, 1 85,000 Teamsters went into battle against United Parcel Service (UPS) in 1997, under recently re-elected reform leadership. The result was a successful ten-day strike that protested mistreatment of part-timers not only at UPS but throughout the U.S. Still basking in the glow of his own election two years before…
Gellnerian Theory of Nation and Nationalism: A Critical Appraisal
Nationalism continues to have enormous power. The formulation that it has weakened or would weaken in a modern and globalised context needs to be viewed in a problematical manner. There are instances of nationalist resurgence not only in the so-called 'underdeveloped' countries but also in highly developed and 'modern' countries. The power that nationalism demonstrates now and then continues to demand our attention in terms of analysing and expla…
Framing Islam: The Resurgence of Orientalism During the Bush II Era
Since the events of 9/11, the range of debate on issues pertaining to Muslims or Islam has narrowed to a point where Orientalist modes of thought are once again dominant. The "clash of civilizations" thesis eschewed by the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations, was adopted and promoted by the Bush Jr. administration. Since this ideological shift was articulated by the "primary definers of news" in a climate of fear and intimidation, it acquired th…
Mediating Racism
The far right in the United States has ratcheted up anti-Muslim racism in the twenty-first century. However, they are not alone in creating and circulating the discourses of Islamophobia. In this paper, I set out to situate the far right, who I call the ‘new McCarthyites’, within the broader context in which they operate. I argue that they are part of a larger matrix of Islamophobia which includes the liberal establishment. I start with a concret…
Race, ideology, and empire
The Right Kind of “Islam”: News media representations of US-Saudi relations during the Cold War
Scholarship on the representation of Islam in the media has rightly focused on its negative dimensions, particularly since the events of 9/11. However, “Islam” has not always been a negative construct. During the Cold War, the United States sought to promote “Islam” as a bulwark against secular nationalism. Saudi Arabia was central to this policy. In this paper, I study the coverage of the US–Saudi policy of harnessing Islam to serve larger polit…
See Something, Say Something: Security Rituals, Affect, and US Nationalism from the Cold War to the War on Terror
This article examines “security rituals,” routinized and repetitive performances of security practices, and their role in reproducing US nationalism and militarism. It argues that the security ritual as a form emerges out of the Cold War. Its revival in the war on terror era, which has seen a massive expansion of the national security state, marks a continuity of Cold War emotion management and national security affect. Employing Michael Billig’s…
Antidiabetic and hypolipidemic efficacy of skin and seed extracts of Momordica cymbalaria on alloxan induced diabetic model in rats
Terrorcraft: Empire and the Making of the Racialised Terrorist Threat
Terrorism is so associated with Arabs, Muslims and South Asians that it has become common sense in the post 9/11 world. Drawing on various bodies of scholarship, this article traces the complex evolution of 'race' in relation to Arabs and Muslims from the 1960s to mid-'80s, alongside changing notions of 'terrorism', to advance an argument about the historically contingent nature of the racialised terrorist threat. The author argues that 'terrorcr…
Rightwing and Liberal Islamophobia: The Change of Imperial Guard from Trump to Biden
When Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the 2020 election, the world waited with bated breath for a new US president to restore the old order. The Trump presidency was extraordinary; it was the mos
Sexual health and quality of life: Study on prostate cancer patients treated with modern 6MV X-ray radiation therapy
This study aimed to compare the sexual quality of life through pre-defined parameters of prostate cancer (PCa) patients with pre-and-post- volumetric modulated arc radiation therapy (VMAT) and to examine their association with the radiation doses of the penile bulb (PB) and patient peculiarity. In this retrospective study, we analyzed medical record data of 100 patients who received definitive external radiation therapy (RT) and hormone therapy (…
The importance of personal interviews in assessing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in India
Communication and race: The paucity of research on anti-Muslim racism
The field of Communication has been critiqued for its failure to take race seriously. This article contributes to this ongoing discussion through a focus on anti-Muslim racism scholarship. Six NCA and ICA journals with a track record of publishing articles on race have so far published only seven articles on Muslim racialization; the new journal Communication and Race does not include Arabs or Muslims in its purview. This essay points to the pauc…
Saracens, Moors and Islam: Was there a Muslim race in medieval Europe
Against the view that antecedents to modern racism can be found in medieval Europe’s depictions of Moors, Saracens and the prophet Muhammad, this article demonstrates that representations of Muslims from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries were both respectful and resentful, lacking the kind of coherence necessary to show a pattern of racialisation. Rather than reflecting a structural continuity with the Orientalism that emerged in the ninetee…
A conceptual study of menstruation taboos and intangible pain
The neoliberal origins of contemporary anti-Muslim racism
After Munich 1972: How the US and Israel Weaponized Terrorism
This article argues that the long-standing Zionist discourse of “self-defense” from “terrorism”—used to justify the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza—emerged in the late 1960s and escalated in the wake of the September 1972 Munich Olympics incident when Palestinian activists took Israeli athletes hostage. UN Resolution 3034, adopted that December, condemned attacks on civilians but also stressed that colonial domination breeds violence and that co…
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