Liam O’loughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 235325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liam O’loughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liam |
| FAMILY NAME | O’loughlin |
| SIGNATURE | O’LOUGHLIN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time
Global South Asian and Black Relationships
No better story to tell
This essay identifies the emergence of the aid exposé documentary, a set of contemporary films that overtly challenge the moral benevolence and economic function of humanitarian and development aid. These films are situated within a broader twenty-first century public critique of aid but constitute an aesthetic divergence from the images of suffering found in the long, intertwined history of visual media and humanitarianism. Against that backdrop…
The Institutional Cultures of Postcolonial Studies
This essay identifies an emerging body of cultural production created in the wake of the late twentieth-century consolidation of postcolonial literary studies, and reads this work as an engagement with the paradox of institutionalizing anti-imperial thought in the imperial metropoles. These novels and songs (including work from Teju Cole, Minoli Salgado, and Das Racist) admiringly cite the field’s most famous intellectuals and transformative read…
Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic
In the last decade, ecocriticism has become a major research area within the field of postcolonial studies. The Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 has played a pivotal, if understated, role i
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Negotiating Solidarity
This essay examines the relationship between transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and postcolonial disasters as represented in literature. After the 1990s expansion of humanitarian organizations, a wide array of NGO-related literature emerges, including depictions of aid workers in fiction as well as humanitarian-authored narratives. While these texts contain a capacity for self-critique typically lacking in transnational NGO campa…
Negotiating Solidarity
This essay examines the relationship between transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and postcolonial disasters as represented in literature. After the 1990s expansion of humanitarian organizations, a wide array of NGO-related literature emerges, including depictions of aid workers in fiction as well as humanitarian-authored narratives. While these texts contain a capacity for self-critique typically lacking in transnational NGO campa…
Negotiating Solidarity
This essay examines the relationship between transnational non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and postcolonial disasters as represented in literature. After the 1990s expansion of humanitarian organizations, a wide array of NGO-related literature emerges, including depictions of aid workers in fiction as well as humanitarian-authored narratives. While these texts contain a capacity for self-critique typically lacking in transnational NGO campa…
Natural Disasters and Victorian Empire
Bhopal’s Ecological Gothic
In the last decade, ecocriticism has become a major research area within the field of postcolonial studies. The Union Carbide gas leak in Bhopal in 1984 has played a pivotal, if understated, role i
The Institutional Cultures of Postcolonial Studies
This essay identifies an emerging body of cultural production created in the wake of the late twentieth-century consolidation of postcolonial literary studies, and reads this work as an engagement with the paradox of institutionalizing anti-imperial thought in the imperial metropoles. These novels and songs (including work from Teju Cole, Minoli Salgado, and Das Racist) admiringly cite the field’s most famous intellectuals and transformative read…
Global South Asian and Black Relationships
No better story to tell
This essay identifies the emergence of the aid exposé documentary, a set of contemporary films that overtly challenge the moral benevolence and economic function of humanitarian and development aid. These films are situated within a broader twenty-first century public critique of aid but constitute an aesthetic divergence from the images of suffering found in the long, intertwined history of visual media and humanitarianism. Against that backdrop…
Writing South Asia in Disastrous Time
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Caribbean history, culture, and politics (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works)