Prerna Subramanian
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Prerna Subramanian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Prerna |
| FAMILY NAME | Subramanian |
| SIGNATURE | SUBRAMANIAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | O. P. Jindal Global University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4922-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Registering titles, burying bodies
Bollywood’s reflexive rush to register movie titles after crises is a well-established pattern. The practice is so routine that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and India went into lockdown in early
The law is a conversation – but who gets the mic? Counter-factual pedagogy as reflective legal pedagogy in an elite Indian law classroom
This reflective practitioner essay asks what it means to teach law ‘as a conversation’ and who is heard as speaking law within that conversation. Drawing on teaching notes from an elite Indian law school writing classroom, the article analyses a staged counter-factual dialogue among four legal thinkers (Nicholas J. McBride, Patricia J. Williams, Kiruba Munusamy and Angela D. Gilmore). ‘Counter-factual pedagogy’ names a method that stages an ‘as-i…
Wl-1117-Laughing with the Sarabhais, the Parekhs, the Mehtas - An Invitation to Rethink Admiration for Indian Family Sitcoms
This commentary interrogates the ideological work performed by 2000s Indian sitcoms like Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and Khichdi in producing and sustaining narratives of Hindu upper-caste innocence. Drawing from the concept of "white innocence" in American media, it examines how these sitcoms normalize upper-caste Hindu identity as the cultural default, feeding into contemporary Hindutva-aligned victimhood discourses in Indian media and politics
Auditioning for humanity
Dreamers of the Day and the Living Archive of 1990s Lesbian Cinema in Canada
In this article we reflect on our experiences researching and curating a Canadian lesbian feature film, Dreamers of the Day (1990, dirs. Patricia Rivera Spencer and Philip Wood). We explore how a community-driven approach to archival research is necessary for investigating low-budget lesbian films such as this, and in turn, should inform accompanying curatorial practices. When screening lesser-known queer films, the community networks necessary t…
Feeling seen
This essay delves into the intricate contradiction within the BTS-ARMY relationship, where the sensation of “feeling seen” is both an expression of an intimate sense of belonging and the product-pr
Critiquing Indian Middle‐Class Principles of Mobility
This literature review critically examines the need to incorporate critiques of urban, middle‐class, Hindu, upper‐caste mediated regulation of transgender mobility within media analyses of transgender representation in contemporary films and other streaming (OTT) media in India. The essay explores how the real and imagined/narrative mobility of marginalized groups, such as Dalit women, Muslim women, sex workers, and transgender communities, has b…
Sometimes, Anger is the Answer
Wasted or Stolen Time
This article delves into the portrayal of the relationship between indebted individuals and disposable time in the South Korean Netflix TV series Squid Game (2021–present). It argues that the show illustrates how the debt-ridden, so-called unproductive members of society are denied the right to have disposable time and are excluded from moments of play and leisure and denied escape from their perpetual debt cycle. The analysis focuses on two pivo…
Clapping Along or Clapping Back
Eva Illouz, whilst discussing her text Manufacturing Happy Citizens in an interview, points out that happiness in a neoliberal economy has become a way to measure our self-worth especially as it is individualised. Being happy, thus, means to be able to strive despite the odds and yet be optimistic: to be happy in a neoliberal setup is to be resilient. Indeed, resilience means bouncing back and putting your best foot forward in the gravest of circ…
Gender, space and agency in India
The book Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes, edited by Anindita Datta, advances geographical thought from a social science lens, contextualised in India. The editor
Fuck Bar to Fuck this Bar
Through a review of a recent Indian Amazon Prime series Four More Shots Please (FMSP), this essay makes three distinct points: first, shows like FMSP have to be seen in the context of growing celebritisation of feminist discourse and dominance of upper-caste and upper-class networks in feminist spaces in India, second, socio-spatial relations reinforced through the positioning of the show’s narrative in a posh South Mumbai pub are a marker of its…
Auditioning for humanity
Gender, space and agency in India
The book Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes, edited by Anindita Datta, advances geographical thought from a social science lens, contextualised in India. The editor
Fuck Bar to Fuck this Bar
Through a review of a recent Indian Amazon Prime series Four More Shots Please (FMSP), this essay makes three distinct points: first, shows like FMSP have to be seen in the context of growing celebritisation of feminist discourse and dominance of upper-caste and upper-class networks in feminist spaces in India, second, socio-spatial relations reinforced through the positioning of the show’s narrative in a posh South Mumbai pub are a marker of its…
Fuck Bar to Fuck this Bar
Through a review of a recent Indian Amazon Prime series Four More Shots Please (FMSP), this essay makes three distinct points: first, shows like FMSP have to be seen in the context of growing celebritisation of feminist discourse and dominance of upper-caste and upper-class networks in feminist spaces in India, second, socio-spatial relations reinforced through the positioning of the show’s narrative in a posh South Mumbai pub are a marker of its…
Gender, space and agency in India
The book Gender, Space and Agency in India: Exploring Regional Genderscapes, edited by Anindita Datta, advances geographical thought from a social science lens, contextualised in India. The editor
Wasted or Stolen Time
This article delves into the portrayal of the relationship between indebted individuals and disposable time in the South Korean Netflix TV series Squid Game (2021–present). It argues that the show illustrates how the debt-ridden, so-called unproductive members of society are denied the right to have disposable time and are excluded from moments of play and leisure and denied escape from their perpetual debt cycle. The analysis focuses on two pivo…
Clapping Along or Clapping Back
Eva Illouz, whilst discussing her text Manufacturing Happy Citizens in an interview, points out that happiness in a neoliberal economy has become a way to measure our self-worth especially as it is individualised. Being happy, thus, means to be able to strive despite the odds and yet be optimistic: to be happy in a neoliberal setup is to be resilient. Indeed, resilience means bouncing back and putting your best foot forward in the gravest of circ…
Dreamers of the Day and the Living Archive of 1990s Lesbian Cinema in Canada
In this article we reflect on our experiences researching and curating a Canadian lesbian feature film, Dreamers of the Day (1990, dirs. Patricia Rivera Spencer and Philip Wood). We explore how a community-driven approach to archival research is necessary for investigating low-budget lesbian films such as this, and in turn, should inform accompanying curatorial practices. When screening lesser-known queer films, the community networks necessary t…
Feeling seen
This essay delves into the intricate contradiction within the BTS-ARMY relationship, where the sensation of “feeling seen” is both an expression of an intimate sense of belonging and the product-pr
Critiquing Indian Middle‐Class Principles of Mobility
This literature review critically examines the need to incorporate critiques of urban, middle‐class, Hindu, upper‐caste mediated regulation of transgender mobility within media analyses of transgender representation in contemporary films and other streaming (OTT) media in India. The essay explores how the real and imagined/narrative mobility of marginalized groups, such as Dalit women, Muslim women, sex workers, and transgender communities, has b…
Sometimes, Anger is the Answer
Wl-1117-Laughing with the Sarabhais, the Parekhs, the Mehtas - An Invitation to Rethink Admiration for Indian Family Sitcoms
This commentary interrogates the ideological work performed by 2000s Indian sitcoms like Sarabhai vs Sarabhai and Khichdi in producing and sustaining narratives of Hindu upper-caste innocence. Drawing from the concept of "white innocence" in American media, it examines how these sitcoms normalize upper-caste Hindu identity as the cultural default, feeding into contemporary Hindutva-aligned victimhood discourses in Indian media and politics
Auditioning for humanity
Registering titles, burying bodies
Bollywood’s reflexive rush to register movie titles after crises is a well-established pattern. The practice is so routine that when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and India went into lockdown in early
The law is a conversation – but who gets the mic? Counter-factual pedagogy as reflective legal pedagogy in an elite Indian law classroom
This reflective practitioner essay asks what it means to teach law ‘as a conversation’ and who is heard as speaking law within that conversation. Drawing on teaching notes from an elite Indian law school writing classroom, the article analyses a staged counter-factual dialogue among four legal thinkers (Nicholas J. McBride, Patricia J. Williams, Kiruba Munusamy and Angela D. Gilmore). ‘Counter-factual pedagogy’ names a method that stages an ‘as-i…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works)