Tania Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583964 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tania Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tania |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6472-5849 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigeneity, Mobility, and the Stakes of World Literature
This article charts the relationship between “indigeneity” and “mobility,” assessing its salience for contemporary World Literature. The argument positions, and critically interrogates, Waanyi writer Alexis Wright’s 2013 novel The Swan Book as a “worldly” Indigenous text. Through three nested analytical tropes – “mobile bodies,” “multispecies Dreamings,” and “moving worlds” – the analysis reveals the precariousness of categories through which the…
The New Militancy
This special section, entitled “Memory Wars,” marks the twentieth anniversary of Cultural Politics and was initiated a few months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Taking as a cue the question of a belligerent revision of history, the journal convened a symposium on “memory wars” in collaboration with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, in June 2023. Geopolitical alignments of Europe and the Unit…
Memory Capture from “De-communization” to “Decolonization
German historian of modern Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar positions the third year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) between an analysis of escalated culture wars within Ukraine and its resonance for Anglo-American/European liberalism, whose most influential representatives suppress consideration of class-based, ethnicized contradictions that underlie the appeal to national self-determination, following the Maidan revolution of 2014. T…
From Buru to Giudecca
My work has dealt with explorations of forgotten events that reveal changing value systems, and how they are produced and consumed.I am interested in narration, and how a subject is formed and creates alliances as well as its mode of resistance in conflict with often violent institutionalized systems.To this end, I use montage as a gesture that might weave together traces of lives and materials into new narratives, while revealing the structure, …
Postcolonial Disconsolation, and After
10.1080/10848770.2018.1461778
A Tessellation-Based Methodology for an Interactive Analysis of the Arctic Ice Dynamic Phenomenon with Spatial Online Analytical Processing
A tessellation-based methodology for interactively analyzing the spatio-temporal evolution of a dynamic phenomenon – ice coverage and its characteristics – using a spatial online analytical processing (OLAP) approach is proposed. The feasibility of the method was tested through a prototype developed in the context of the CanICE project using Canadian Ice Service data and the Egg Code, an international standard for characterizing sea and lake ice.…
Late Style, between Theodor Adorno and Mulk Raj Anand
This essay positions the figure and thought of T.W. Adorno in relation to Mulk Raj Anand, and the latter’s foundational contributions to the modern Indian novel in English. In Adorno’s musical writings, “late style” features as a methodological premise, or an expository mode that removes the work from conventional norms of evaluation (including periodization, biography and context). Late style is directed especially toward canonized works that se…
Non-Renewable Resources
This article approaches the recent work of pre-eminent Indian conceptual artist Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2008), as a supplement to dominant representational practices of, and within, the Indian megacity. Re-purposing tropes that motivate both popular and specialist discourses, Sundaram's recent ensemble rehearses the discursive construction of the megacity-as-waste, by representing an urban totality through elaborate, ordered arrangements of garbag…
D Cadastre in the Province of Quebec
Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On
This paper examines the installation work of Vivan Sundaram, one of India's foremost contemporary artists, as an aesthetic response to the rapid political and cultural transformations that marked the 1990s. At this time, Sundaram turned definitively from an established body of figurative and representational art, to experiments with site-specific, inter-medial installations. This turn is placed in the context of the rise of cultural majoritariani…
India's 9/11
This article explores the hermeneutical force and flexibility of the 9/11 idiom, by identifying some ways in which it served as an interpretative framework for the attacks of 26 November 2008 in Mumbai. The idiom's transposition to Mumbai represented, in part, a contest over American rhetorical capital. Re-territorialized as 'India's 9/11', the idiom has re-signified a range of local interests, aspirations, and contests over urban space and ident…
Mumbai
This article introduces the themes and theoretical concerns of a special section that explores the various ways the specificities of the Mumbai attacks serve as a metonym for issues found in other urban sites within the conditions, concerns and vulnerabilities of globalization-as-urbanization and does so through the rubric of the city-as-target. As urbanization grows exponentially in unforecastable ways, the likelihood of violent urban targeting …
The Aesthetic in Colonial India
Theory, Culture and Society
Against Ecofeminism
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
Traveling with De Beauvoir From India
India's 9/11
This article explores the hermeneutical force and flexibility of the 9/11 idiom, by identifying some ways in which it served as an interpretative framework for the attacks of 26 November 2008 in Mumbai. The idiom's transposition to Mumbai represented, in part, a contest over American rhetorical capital. Re-territorialized as 'India's 9/11', the idiom has re-signified a range of local interests, aspirations, and contests over urban space and ident…
Mumbai
This article introduces the themes and theoretical concerns of a special section that explores the various ways the specificities of the Mumbai attacks serve as a metonym for issues found in other urban sites within the conditions, concerns and vulnerabilities of globalization-as-urbanization and does so through the rubric of the city-as-target. As urbanization grows exponentially in unforecastable ways, the likelihood of violent urban targeting …
Non-Renewable Resources
This article approaches the recent work of pre-eminent Indian conceptual artist Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2008), as a supplement to dominant representational practices of, and within, the Indian megacity. Re-purposing tropes that motivate both popular and specialist discourses, Sundaram's recent ensemble rehearses the discursive construction of the megacity-as-waste, by representing an urban totality through elaborate, ordered arrangements of garbag…
Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On
This paper examines the installation work of Vivan Sundaram, one of India's foremost contemporary artists, as an aesthetic response to the rapid political and cultural transformations that marked the 1990s. At this time, Sundaram turned definitively from an established body of figurative and representational art, to experiments with site-specific, inter-medial installations. This turn is placed in the context of the rise of cultural majoritariani…
Against Ecofeminism
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
Against Ecofeminism
Over the last decade, protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro, and the Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise and institutions such as the World Trade Organization, …
Traveling with De Beauvoir From India
The Aesthetic in Colonial India
Theory, Culture and Society
Wreck, Restoration, and the Work of Carrying On
This paper examines the installation work of Vivan Sundaram, one of India's foremost contemporary artists, as an aesthetic response to the rapid political and cultural transformations that marked the 1990s. At this time, Sundaram turned definitively from an established body of figurative and representational art, to experiments with site-specific, inter-medial installations. This turn is placed in the context of the rise of cultural majoritariani…
India's 9/11
This article explores the hermeneutical force and flexibility of the 9/11 idiom, by identifying some ways in which it served as an interpretative framework for the attacks of 26 November 2008 in Mumbai. The idiom's transposition to Mumbai represented, in part, a contest over American rhetorical capital. Re-territorialized as 'India's 9/11', the idiom has re-signified a range of local interests, aspirations, and contests over urban space and ident…
Mumbai
This article introduces the themes and theoretical concerns of a special section that explores the various ways the specificities of the Mumbai attacks serve as a metonym for issues found in other urban sites within the conditions, concerns and vulnerabilities of globalization-as-urbanization and does so through the rubric of the city-as-target. As urbanization grows exponentially in unforecastable ways, the likelihood of violent urban targeting …
D Cadastre in the Province of Quebec
Non-Renewable Resources
This article approaches the recent work of pre-eminent Indian conceptual artist Vivan Sundaram, Trash (2008), as a supplement to dominant representational practices of, and within, the Indian megacity. Re-purposing tropes that motivate both popular and specialist discourses, Sundaram's recent ensemble rehearses the discursive construction of the megacity-as-waste, by representing an urban totality through elaborate, ordered arrangements of garbag…
A Tessellation-Based Methodology for an Interactive Analysis of the Arctic Ice Dynamic Phenomenon with Spatial Online Analytical Processing
A tessellation-based methodology for interactively analyzing the spatio-temporal evolution of a dynamic phenomenon – ice coverage and its characteristics – using a spatial online analytical processing (OLAP) approach is proposed. The feasibility of the method was tested through a prototype developed in the context of the CanICE project using Canadian Ice Service data and the Egg Code, an international standard for characterizing sea and lake ice.…
Late Style, between Theodor Adorno and Mulk Raj Anand
This essay positions the figure and thought of T.W. Adorno in relation to Mulk Raj Anand, and the latter’s foundational contributions to the modern Indian novel in English. In Adorno’s musical writings, “late style” features as a methodological premise, or an expository mode that removes the work from conventional norms of evaluation (including periodization, biography and context). Late style is directed especially toward canonized works that se…
Postcolonial Disconsolation, and After
10.1080/10848770.2018.1461778
From Buru to Giudecca
My work has dealt with explorations of forgotten events that reveal changing value systems, and how they are produced and consumed.I am interested in narration, and how a subject is formed and creates alliances as well as its mode of resistance in conflict with often violent institutionalized systems.To this end, I use montage as a gesture that might weave together traces of lives and materials into new narratives, while revealing the structure, …
The New Militancy
This special section, entitled “Memory Wars,” marks the twentieth anniversary of Cultural Politics and was initiated a few months after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Taking as a cue the question of a belligerent revision of history, the journal convened a symposium on “memory wars” in collaboration with the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, in June 2023. Geopolitical alignments of Europe and the Unit…
Memory Capture from “De-communization” to “Decolonization
German historian of modern Ukraine Tarik Cyril Amar positions the third year of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (February 2022) between an analysis of escalated culture wars within Ukraine and its resonance for Anglo-American/European liberalism, whose most influential representatives suppress consideration of class-based, ethnicized contradictions that underlie the appeal to national self-determination, following the Maidan revolution of 2014. T…
Indigeneity, Mobility, and the Stakes of World Literature
This article charts the relationship between “indigeneity” and “mobility,” assessing its salience for contemporary World Literature. The argument positions, and critically interrogates, Waanyi writer Alexis Wright’s 2013 novel The Swan Book as a “worldly” Indigenous text. Through three nested analytical tropes – “mobile bodies,” “multispecies Dreamings,” and “moving worlds” – the analysis reveals the precariousness of categories through which the…
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