Inderpal Grewal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3596791 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Inderpal Grewal |
| NOMBRES | Inderpal |
| APELLIDO | Grewal |
| FIRMA | GREWAL I |
| AFILIACIONES | Yale University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 14 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Towards a ‘diaspora arts’
Racial sovereignty and ‘shooter’ violence
Colonial Violence and Colonial Rule
Colonial Violence and Colonial Rule Inderpal Grewal (bio) what israel, europe, and the us are silencing the production and articulation of knowledge across the world and especially in universities identifying Israel as a violent settler-colonial state. This is an impossible task because researchers, writers, and artists have transformed the prevalent view in Euro-America that colonialism was a benign project, bringing progress to the Global South…
Security Regimes
This article reviews key theoretical and methodological contributions that anthropologists have made to the study of what we call security regimes. While anthropologists have been instrumental in denaturalizing discourses of security, much of the existing literature on who security actors are or where their work and force are to be found remains focused on the masculinist frontlines and visibly spectacular instances of security state power. We ad…
The Security State and Securitizing Patriarchies in Postcolonial India
This article examines the shifting nature of patriarchy and gender among Sikhs in Indian Punjab through the 1980s and into the 1990s in relation to the Indian state's counterinsurgent policies and practices. The authors’ research reveals that Sikh masculinities were altered during its separatist insurgency as the patriarchal state and communities both relied on violence for their own ends. Specifically, the article argues that the regimes of prec…
Security from the South
This introduction offers “security from the South” as a method and an analytic to trace the colonial continuities, the imperial geographies, and the forms of difference through which people become subjects of, resist, and shore up security regimes across the world. Rather than one overarching set of politics, practices, and ideas that constitute “security,” the essay insists on a pluriversal lens onto a world in which security regimes appear begu…
Transnational Feminist Itineraries
The Aesthetics and Politics of Feminist Struggles and Liberal Internationalism
The Fury Archives considers human rights internationalism as an opening rather than a horizon of claims for early twentieth-century radical movements. Jill Richards’s emphasis on the affective power of struggles rather than their outcomes reveals both the limitations of human rights and also the resonance of the human for resistance to fascism, patriarchy, racism and imperialism. While our contemporary moment confirms human rights as a failed pro…
The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves
Figurations
Always in the process of becoming, inherently incomplete, the child is a remarkably malleable figure. In Figurations, Claudia Castañeda shows how this malleability is itself generated-how the child is "made" by different constituencies and how the resulting historically, geographically, and culturally specific figures are put to widely divergent uses, often to very powerful effect. Situated at the intersection of feminist, postcolonial, cultural,…
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
This piece was written collaboratively as a response to the bombing of sites in Afghanistan in September 2001 as the United States began to retaliate for Al-Queda attacks on U.S. targets. Anticipating the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the struct…
September 11
The links among feminism, race, and transnationalism, which are key to the Meridians project, are also crucial to understanding the events of 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan. Some pieces in this archive provide feminist perspectives on the impact of war and fundamentalism on women's lives in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Other pieces analyze the ways in which racist representations of Muslim women and of Islam have come to play a key part in colonial…
Slow violence in post-1984 Punjab
In this paper, we examine the afterlives of insurgent and counterinsurgent violence in Punjab and the US. We explore how the period of the 1980s and 1990s came to have effects that linger into the present, and how violence is remembered by ordinary people, especially non-elite women. We argue that memories unfold in relation to the slow and structural violence that has manifested through years of Punjabis living with the after-effects of insurgen…
Sedition, Securitization, Sexuality
In this article, Inderpal Grewal and Rohit De discuss the history of the application of India’s law against sedition in relation to questions of sexuality and gender. The conversation between them frames the project of modernity and the state in each of these two scholars’ work, and the ways in which questions of modernity intersect those of “national” and “anti-national” subjectivation. Here, they are interested in how modernity has been formula…
At the Limits of Justice
Drone Imaginaries
Saving the Security State
In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the "exceptional citizens"-primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the …
The Masculinities of Post-colonial Governance
This article examines the memoirs of Indian Civil Service officers as they continued to work in what became the Indian Administrative Service after independence. Rather than being understood solely as historical archives, these texts constitute a genre that can be called the 'bureaucratic memoir' which reveals masculinities that are both colonial and post-colonial. These memoirs, and their publication decades after independence reveal attempts by…
Theorizing NGOs
Conclusion
Theorizing NGOs
Racial Sovereignty and ‘Shooter’ Violence
The massacre at Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Gurdwara requires us to examine how and why so many white men are allowed to amass weapons that enable them to kill groups of people in incidents that are euphemistically called ‘mass shootings’. Neither ‘hate crime’ statutes nor surveillance over neo-Nazis can address why such violence is allowed to continue. This paper argues that ‘racial sovereignty’ is given to white, Christian males as the state disperse…
Outsourcing Patriarchy
While much has been written on the violence of honour killings and the women who are their victims, little has been written on the production of the concept of 'honour killing', or the ways that concept produces meanings, cultures and identities. This article takes on that question, looking at when, where and how violence against women gets named as a specific crime called 'honour killing', in which honour comes to be a stable and unchanging term…
Why Stories Matter
This book is on how feminists tell stories about Western feminist theory's recent past, why these stories matter, and what we can do to transform them.It explores their narrative form and charts their interaction with other stories about feminism and social change.It asks what might be at stake in feminist storytelling, and most importantly it seeks to intervene in these stories, to realign their political grammar to allow a different vision of a…
Becoming Imperial Citizens
Time Travels
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented
Sciences from Below
Why Focus on Modernity?this is a book about western modernity and the ways it remains haunted by anxieties about the feminine and the primitive, both of which are associated with the traditional.Northern philosophies of science and technology have been complicitous in establishing and maintaining these haunting specters.Scientific rationality and technical expertise are presented in these philosophies as the one-way time machines that supposedly …
Global Identities
Research Article| October 01 2001 GLOBAL IDENTITIES: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality Inderpal Grewal; Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caren Kaplan Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 663–679. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-663 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Home and Harem
ENGLISH IMPERIAL CULTURE: Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain. The Guidebook and the Museum -- EUROIMPERIAL TRAVEL AND INDIAN WOMEN. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Nineteenth- Century India. Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale: Homes for Women, Feminism, and Nationalism
For the Record
Without a TraceThere were no papers, the ostensible reason for my visit, and of course, no trace of the Rani.Again, a reaching and an un-grasping
No Bond but the Law
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders' legal right to use violence-which they defined as "punishment"-against those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave …
The Age of the World Target
European Theory in AmericaThe chapters of this book comprise a series of attempts to contemplate three related sets of issues.How have we come to write in the manner we do in the Anglo-American world of humanistic studies today?How might this condition of writing be assessed against the larger forces of crosscultural encounters and entanglements-specifically, since the end of the Second World War?What might we learn by juxtaposing area studies, p…
Outsourcing Patriarchy
While much has been written on the violence of honour killings and the women who are their victims, little has been written on the production of the concept of 'honour killing', or the ways that concept produces meanings, cultures and identities. This article takes on that question, looking at when, where and how violence against women gets named as a specific crime called 'honour killing', in which honour comes to be a stable and unchanging term…
Saving the Security State
In Saving the Security State Inderpal Grewal traces the changing relations between the US state and its citizens in an era she calls advanced neoliberalism. Marked by the decline of US geopolitical power, endless war, and increasing surveillance, advanced neoliberalism militarizes everyday life while producing the "exceptional citizens"-primarily white Christian men who reinforce the security state as they claim responsibility for protecting the …
Alimentary Tracts
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Transnational America
This paper examines the racialisation and gendering of a collective subject described as ‘Middle Eastern or Muslim’ in the US media in the aftermath of 9/11. It examines how this category came to be visible and prominent through the workings of disciplinary power and forms of governmentality through the binary of freedom and unfreedom, necropolitics and the politics of security and freedom. Multiculturalism in the US, as it was articulated in con…
Women's rights as human rights
This paper argues that the recent calls for articulating women's rights as human rights can be successful only by misrecognition of the geopolitical context of human rights internationalism and the nationalisms that are sustained by it. Arguing that it is only on the level of universalized constructions of ‘women’ as a category and the generalized invocations of oppression by ‘global feminism's’ ‘American’ practitioners that such discourses of ri…
Warrior Marks
Research Article| September 01 1996 Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context Inderpal Grewal; Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caren Kaplan Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4-33. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-4 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citati…
Transnational Feminist Practices Against War
This piece was written collaboratively as a response to the bombing of sites in Afghanistan in September 2001 as the United States began to retaliate for Al-Queda attacks on U.S. targets. Anticipating the invasion and occupation of Iraq and a broader, globalized “War on Terror,” the authors wanted to offer an antiracist, antinationalist feminist analysis that insisted recognizing the importance of histories of colonialism and empire in the struct…
Traveling Barbie
Research Article| August 01 1999 Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects Inderpal Grewal Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (3): 799–827. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-799 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Inderpal Grewal; Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects. …
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Other| May 01 1994 Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides Caren Kaplan; Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Inderpal Grewal Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (2): 430–445. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-430 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citati…
Security Regimes
This article reviews key theoretical and methodological contributions that anthropologists have made to the study of what we call security regimes. While anthropologists have been instrumental in denaturalizing discourses of security, much of the existing literature on who security actors are or where their work and force are to be found remains focused on the masculinist frontlines and visibly spectacular instances of security state power. We ad…
The Masculinities of Post-colonial Governance
This article examines the memoirs of Indian Civil Service officers as they continued to work in what became the Indian Administrative Service after independence. Rather than being understood solely as historical archives, these texts constitute a genre that can be called the 'bureaucratic memoir' which reveals masculinities that are both colonial and post-colonial. These memoirs, and their publication decades after independence reveal attempts by…
The Postcolonial Careers of Santha Rama Rau
The East as a Postcolonial CareerWhen we talk of Asia, remember that India, not because of any ambition of hers, but because of the force of circumstances, because of geography, because of history and because of so many other things, inevitably has to play a very important role in Asia.And not only that; India becomes a kind of meeting ground for various trends and forces, a meeting ground between what might roughly be called the East and the Wes…
Slow violence in post-1984 Punjab
In this paper, we examine the afterlives of insurgent and counterinsurgent violence in Punjab and the US. We explore how the period of the 1980s and 1990s came to have effects that linger into the present, and how violence is remembered by ordinary people, especially non-elite women. We argue that memories unfold in relation to the slow and structural violence that has manifested through years of Punjabis living with the after-effects of insurgen…
Postcoloniality, Globalization, and Feminist Critique
Racial Sovereignty and ‘Shooter’ Violence
The massacre at Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Gurdwara requires us to examine how and why so many white men are allowed to amass weapons that enable them to kill groups of people in incidents that are euphemistically called ‘mass shootings’. Neither ‘hate crime’ statutes nor surveillance over neo-Nazis can address why such violence is allowed to continue. This paper argues that ‘racial sovereignty’ is given to white, Christian males as the state disperse…
Gender, Culture, and Empire
Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies
Other| May 01 1994 Transnational Feminist Cultural Studies: Beyond the Marxism/Poststructuralism/Feminism Divides Caren Kaplan; Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Inderpal Grewal Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1994) 2 (2): 430–445. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-2-2-430 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citati…
Home and Harem
ENGLISH IMPERIAL CULTURE: Home and Harem: Domesticity, Gender, and Nationalism. Empire and the Movement for Women's Suffrage in Britain. The Guidebook and the Museum -- EUROIMPERIAL TRAVEL AND INDIAN WOMEN. The Culture of Travel and the Gendering of Colonial Modernity in Nineteenth- Century India. Pandita Ramabai and Parvati Athavale: Homes for Women, Feminism, and Nationalism
Warrior Marks
Research Article| September 01 1996 Warrior Marks: Global Womanism's Neo-Colonial Discourse in a Multicultural Context Inderpal Grewal; Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caren Kaplan Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1996) 13 (3 (39)): 4-33. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-13-3_39-4 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citati…
A Part, Yet Apart
Journal of Asian American Studies - Volume 2, Number 2, June 1999
Traveling Barbie
Research Article| August 01 1999 Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects Inderpal Grewal Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (3): 799–827. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-799 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Inderpal Grewal; Traveling Barbie: Indian Transnationality and New Consumer Subjects. …
Women's rights as human rights
This paper argues that the recent calls for articulating women's rights as human rights can be successful only by misrecognition of the geopolitical context of human rights internationalism and the nationalisms that are sustained by it. Arguing that it is only on the level of universalized constructions of ‘women’ as a category and the generalized invocations of oppression by ‘global feminism's’ ‘American’ practitioners that such discourses of ri…
At Home in the World? The Gendered Cartographies of Globality
Global Identities
Research Article| October 01 2001 GLOBAL IDENTITIES: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality Inderpal Grewal; Inderpal Grewal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Caren Kaplan Caren Kaplan Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2001) 7 (4): 663–679. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7-4-663 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
Por uma prática feminista transnacional contra a guerra
No More Separate Spheres!
No More Separate Spheres! challenges the limitations of thinking about American literature and culture within the narrow rubric of “male public” and “female private” spheres from the founders to the present. With provocative essays by an array of cutting-edge critics with diverse viewpoints, this collection examines the ways that the separate spheres binary has malingered unexamined in feminist criticism, American literary studies, and debates on…
Women’s Studies on Its Own
We thought the study of women would be a temporary phase; eventually we would all go back to our disciplines.—Gloria Bowles, From the Afterword Since the 1970s, Women's Studies has grown from a volunteerist political project to a full-scale academic enterprise. Women's Studies on Its Own assesses the present and future of the field, demonstrating how institutionalization has extended a vital, ongoing intellectual project for a new generation of s…
Lesbian Rule
1. Lesbian Rule -- 2. Droits de Regards/Right of Inspection: For Agnes and Inez Albright -- 3. Archiving the Diaspora: A Lesbian Impression -- 4. Absolut Queer: Cuba and its Spectators -- 5. Forbidden Love: Pulp as Lesbian History -- Conclusion: Straight to Video
The Scandal of the State
Transnational America
This paper examines the racialisation and gendering of a collective subject described as ‘Middle Eastern or Muslim’ in the US media in the aftermath of 9/11. It examines how this category came to be visible and prominent through the workings of disciplinary power and forms of governmentality through the binary of freedom and unfreedom, necropolitics and the politics of security and freedom. Multiculturalism in the US, as it was articulated in con…
The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism
Wayward Reproductions
Genealogy unbound : reproduction and contestation of the racial nation -- Writing feminist genealogy : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the reproduction of racial nationalism -- Engels's originary ruse : race and reproduction in the story of capital -- Sexual selection and the birth of psychoanalysis : Darwin, Freud, and the universalization of wayward reproduction -- The sexual politics and black internationalism : Du Bois and the reproduction of Bl…
No Bond but the Law
Investigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders' legal right to use violence-which they defined as "punishment"-against those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave …
Transnational America
In Transnational America, Inderpal Grewal examines how the circulation of people, goods, social movements, and rights discourses during the 1990s created transnational subjects shaped by a global American culture. Rather than simply frame the United States as an imperialist nation-state that imposes unilateral political power in the world, Grewal analyzes how the concept of "America" functions as a nationalist discourse beyond the boundaries of t…
Time Travels
Essays on the relationship between temporatlity and feminism that focus on the political and philosophical ramifications of being future oriented
Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Gender, Culture, and Empire
The Age of the World Target
European Theory in AmericaThe chapters of this book comprise a series of attempts to contemplate three related sets of issues.How have we come to write in the manner we do in the Anglo-American world of humanistic studies today?How might this condition of writing be assessed against the larger forces of crosscultural encounters and entanglements-specifically, since the end of the Second World War?What might we learn by juxtaposing area studies, p…
The Body of War
Terrorist Assemblages
People are now coming out of the closet on the word empire,'' said the conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer.''The fact is no country has been as dominant culturally, economically, technologically and militarily in the history of the world since the Roman Empire.''The metaphor of coming out is striking, part of a broader trend of appropriating the language of progressive movements in the service of empire.How outrageous to apply the language…
Understanding “Global Community” in Cultural Studies
Terms such as “global community” and “international community” are often heard in the news and pose some interesting questions for scholars working at the intersection of communication studies, tra
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