Surbhi Malik
Biographic Data
| ID | 3578070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Surbhi Malik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Surbhi |
| FAMILY NAME | Malik |
| SIGNATURE | MALIK S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Creighton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5184-0240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The provincial Flâneuse
This essay uses the interpretive lens of the flâneuse to read Rumi, the protagonist of Anurag Kashyap’s 2018 film Manmarziyaan, as an emergent figure who exemplifies provincial confidence and aspirations through specific notions of autonomy in the public space. At the core of this and similar portrayals, I argue, is a changing relationship between gender formations and provincial space, accessed not only in movement or ambulation but in a narrati…
Homelessness as Metaphor and Metonym
(2016). Homelessness as Metaphor and Metonym: Transatlantic Geopolitics in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 47-70
Working Notes
On Ethnography and the Sacred-Cow Controversy
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
The provincial Flâneuse
This essay uses the interpretive lens of the flâneuse to read Rumi, the protagonist of Anurag Kashyap’s 2018 film Manmarziyaan, as an emergent figure who exemplifies provincial confidence and aspirations through specific notions of autonomy in the public space. At the core of this and similar portrayals, I argue, is a changing relationship between gender formations and provincial space, accessed not only in movement or ambulation but in a narrati…
Sacred Cows and Water Buffalo in India
In 1958-59 and in 1977-78, we undertook holistic ethnographic studies of a village in northern India. Profound technoenvironmental change occurred in the 18-year period between the two studies. With regard to cattle, the principal change was a shift from bullock power to machinery. This provided the basis for a test of the two principal positions that have been taken in the sacred-cow controversy: (1) technoenvironmental determinism, which denies…
On Ethnography and the Sacred-Cow Controversy
Working Notes
Homelessness as Metaphor and Metonym
(2016). Homelessness as Metaphor and Metonym: Transatlantic Geopolitics in Jhumpa Lahiri's Fiction and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss. South Asian Review: Vol. 37, No. 2, pp. 47-70
The provincial Flâneuse
This essay uses the interpretive lens of the flâneuse to read Rumi, the protagonist of Anurag Kashyap’s 2018 film Manmarziyaan, as an emergent figure who exemplifies provincial confidence and aspirations through specific notions of autonomy in the public space. At the core of this and similar portrayals, I argue, is a changing relationship between gender formations and provincial space, accessed not only in movement or ambulation but in a narrati…
Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Ethnography (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)