Sangeeta Kamat
Biographic Data
| ID | 307198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sangeeta Kamat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sangeeta |
| FAMILY NAME | Kamat |
| SIGNATURE | KAMAT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-0498-9605 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ending American Exceptionalism: Common Futures Beyond Empire
Worlding: XR, climate futures and ways of gathering
In this commentary, the convenors of WORLDING describe five key takeaways about how to convene creative interdisciplinary online events from their experiences hosting this initiative that was founded in 2021 at MIT Co-Creation Studio
WORLDING is a Verb: Co-Creating Climate Futures with 3D Game Environments and Community Wisdom
The act of co-creating extended reality (XR) worlds can be powerful in both storytelling and placemaking. The process not only sparks collective imagination but can also make community-based land-use climate planning more equitable. The WORLDING research team is investigating this co-creative approach by gathering interdisciplinary teams that build sustainable worlds in virtual environments and render them possible in the physical world. This the…
Epistemic Agitations and Pedagogies for Justice: A Conversation around Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability
This forum began as an "Author Meets Critics" at the 2019 NWSA Conference in San Francisco, where seven feminist scholar-activists from diverse locations, disciplines, and trajectories came together to discuss their unique co-journeys while exploring the daring theoretical interventions in Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability (HT). HT is an insightful and inspiring text authored by Richa Nagar through journeys w…
NGOs, Social Movements and the Neoliberal State: Incorporation, Reinvention, Critique
Education’s relevance for Piketty
The editors of this special issue must be commended for putting together a valuable and timely collection of essays on the relationship between capitalism, inequality and education. Inequality is i
Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: Producing Hyderabad as a 'global city
This paper examines the emergence of Hyderabad as a hub of the global information technology economy, and in particular, the role of higher education in Hyderabad's transformation as the labor market for the new economy. The extensive network of professional education institutions that service the global economy illustrates the ways in which neoliberal globalization is produced through educational restructuring and new modes of urban development.…
Religion, education and the politics of recognition: A critique and a counter‐proposal
How should religion be integrated into school curriculum? The authors compare two recent controversies about religion in school curriculum to provide an overarching perspective that can guide educators in their efforts to use religion for pedagogical purposes. The first controversy concerns curriculum approved by the California State Board of Education on ancient India and the second is a lesson approved by the Kerala State Board of Education tex…
Populism Repackaged: The World Bank's Perspective on Equity and Youth
1209-1218
Producing hi-tech: Globalization, the state and migrant subjects
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
The privatization of public interest: Theorizing NGO discourse in a neoliberal era
This paper examines recent policy discussions on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their central role in the democratization of civil society. The author argues that the policy debate on NGOs exemplifies the conflict between liberalism and socialism, or more specifically between private interest and public good. The contemporary context of neoliberal economic policies and structural adjustment represents a vindication of liberal norms, a…
Postcolonial aporias, or what does fundamentalism have to do with globalization? the contradictory consequences of education reform in India
How do we understand the rise of religious nationalisms in the context of an increasingly globalized and interconnected world? Recent events in the education sector in India provide a particularly compelling example of this contradictory phenomenon. While on the one hand, the Indian State is liberalizing its economic and social sectors to compete in the global economy, in a paradoxical move, it has introduced a new Hindu nationalist curriculum in…
Anthropology and Global Capital: Rediscovering the Noble Savage
This article examines the recent burgeoning of tribal movements within the context of the current global political economy. Contemporary events within the Thane District of Maharashtra, India are linked up with scientific and institutional discourses on tribal and indigenous people, which present certain caveats for anthropologists. I argue that positive representations of tribal people do not necessarily translate into an advancement of struggle…
The privatization of public interest: Theorizing NGO discourse in a neoliberal era
This paper examines recent policy discussions on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their central role in the democratization of civil society. The author argues that the policy debate on NGOs exemplifies the conflict between liberalism and socialism, or more specifically between private interest and public good. The contemporary context of neoliberal economic policies and structural adjustment represents a vindication of liberal norms, a…
NGOs, Social Movements and the Neoliberal State: Incorporation, Reinvention, Critique
Producing hi-tech: Globalization, the state and migrant subjects
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
Postcolonial aporias, or what does fundamentalism have to do with globalization? the contradictory consequences of education reform in India
How do we understand the rise of religious nationalisms in the context of an increasingly globalized and interconnected world? Recent events in the education sector in India provide a particularly compelling example of this contradictory phenomenon. While on the one hand, the Indian State is liberalizing its economic and social sectors to compete in the global economy, in a paradoxical move, it has introduced a new Hindu nationalist curriculum in…
Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: Producing Hyderabad as a 'global city
This paper examines the emergence of Hyderabad as a hub of the global information technology economy, and in particular, the role of higher education in Hyderabad's transformation as the labor market for the new economy. The extensive network of professional education institutions that service the global economy illustrates the ways in which neoliberal globalization is produced through educational restructuring and new modes of urban development.…
Anthropology and Global Capital: Rediscovering the Noble Savage
This article examines the recent burgeoning of tribal movements within the context of the current global political economy. Contemporary events within the Thane District of Maharashtra, India are linked up with scientific and institutional discourses on tribal and indigenous people, which present certain caveats for anthropologists. I argue that positive representations of tribal people do not necessarily translate into an advancement of struggle…
Religion, education and the politics of recognition: A critique and a counter‐proposal
How should religion be integrated into school curriculum? The authors compare two recent controversies about religion in school curriculum to provide an overarching perspective that can guide educators in their efforts to use religion for pedagogical purposes. The first controversy concerns curriculum approved by the California State Board of Education on ancient India and the second is a lesson approved by the Kerala State Board of Education tex…
Anthropology and Global Capital: Rediscovering the Noble Savage
This article examines the recent burgeoning of tribal movements within the context of the current global political economy. Contemporary events within the Thane District of Maharashtra, India are linked up with scientific and institutional discourses on tribal and indigenous people, which present certain caveats for anthropologists. I argue that positive representations of tribal people do not necessarily translate into an advancement of struggle…
Producing hi-tech: Globalization, the state and migrant subjects
This paper examines the role of the state in the context of globalization. Taking up the specific case of Indian software engineers and their migration to the USA, the authors show the involvement of the Indian state and the US at different levels. The growth of the IT labour sector was based on changes in the higher education policy of the Indian state while the large-scale migration of IT workers from India required changes in the immigration p…
The privatization of public interest: Theorizing NGO discourse in a neoliberal era
This paper examines recent policy discussions on non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and their central role in the democratization of civil society. The author argues that the policy debate on NGOs exemplifies the conflict between liberalism and socialism, or more specifically between private interest and public good. The contemporary context of neoliberal economic policies and structural adjustment represents a vindication of liberal norms, a…
Postcolonial aporias, or what does fundamentalism have to do with globalization? the contradictory consequences of education reform in India
How do we understand the rise of religious nationalisms in the context of an increasingly globalized and interconnected world? Recent events in the education sector in India provide a particularly compelling example of this contradictory phenomenon. While on the one hand, the Indian State is liberalizing its economic and social sectors to compete in the global economy, in a paradoxical move, it has introduced a new Hindu nationalist curriculum in…
Populism Repackaged: The World Bank's Perspective on Equity and Youth
1209-1218
Religion, education and the politics of recognition: A critique and a counter‐proposal
How should religion be integrated into school curriculum? The authors compare two recent controversies about religion in school curriculum to provide an overarching perspective that can guide educators in their efforts to use religion for pedagogical purposes. The first controversy concerns curriculum approved by the California State Board of Education on ancient India and the second is a lesson approved by the Kerala State Board of Education tex…
Neoliberalism, urbanism and the education economy: Producing Hyderabad as a 'global city
This paper examines the emergence of Hyderabad as a hub of the global information technology economy, and in particular, the role of higher education in Hyderabad's transformation as the labor market for the new economy. The extensive network of professional education institutions that service the global economy illustrates the ways in which neoliberal globalization is produced through educational restructuring and new modes of urban development.…
Education’s relevance for Piketty
The editors of this special issue must be commended for putting together a valuable and timely collection of essays on the relationship between capitalism, inequality and education. Inequality is i
NGOs, Social Movements and the Neoliberal State: Incorporation, Reinvention, Critique
Epistemic Agitations and Pedagogies for Justice: A Conversation around Hungry Translations: Relearning the World through Radical Vulnerability
This forum began as an "Author Meets Critics" at the 2019 NWSA Conference in San Francisco, where seven feminist scholar-activists from diverse locations, disciplines, and trajectories came together to discuss their unique co-journeys while exploring the daring theoretical interventions in Hungry Translations: Relearning the World Through Radical Vulnerability (HT). HT is an insightful and inspiring text authored by Richa Nagar through journeys w…
Worlding: XR, climate futures and ways of gathering
In this commentary, the convenors of WORLDING describe five key takeaways about how to convene creative interdisciplinary online events from their experiences hosting this initiative that was founded in 2021 at MIT Co-Creation Studio
WORLDING is a Verb: Co-Creating Climate Futures with 3D Game Environments and Community Wisdom
The act of co-creating extended reality (XR) worlds can be powerful in both storytelling and placemaking. The process not only sparks collective imagination but can also make community-based land-use climate planning more equitable. The WORLDING research team is investigating this co-creative approach by gathering interdisciplinary teams that build sustainable worlds in virtual environments and render them possible in the physical world. This the…
Ending American Exceptionalism: Common Futures Beyond Empire
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