Namita Goswami
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Namita Goswami |
| GIVEN NAMES | Namita |
| FAMILY NAME | Goswami |
| SIGNATURE | GOSWAMI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”
This essay creates a heuristic homology between postcoloniality and strains of survivorship whose very contingency “de-humaniz[es] greed as the primum mobile . . . [and thereby composes] the dangerous supplement, one on one yet collective” (Spivak, “Marx” 281). Using Spivak’s attempt to globalize Marx by abjuring epistemological enterprises that privilege “a philosophically correct structural position” (281) at the expense of the subaltern’s “rig…
Repairs Are Pending
This essay responds to the polyphonic and prismatic reflections stemming from Subjects That Matter: Philosophy, Feminism, and Postcolonial Theory (2019), especially as the connective and creative works included in this forum seek holistic, profoundly interdisciplinary, and transcontinental discussions on intersectionality and philosophical practice. I seek vibrant, productive connections between diverse projects by attempting to engage a few sali…
Raddi, Phisaddi, and Bekar
Spivak refers to “originary queerness” as a concept she cannot yet theorize. If concepts convey and uphold heterogeneous lived experience, then the paradoxical missing-ness of a corresponding “what happened” augurs a form of understanding underived from information retrieval. In this spot lives our undifferentiated experience such that “one cannot imagine what one seems to know.” Such imagining of what one (already) seems to know is the task of t…
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
Introduction to Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Analysis - Namita Goswami, Maeve M O'Donovan and Lisa Yount Part I: Defining Intersectionality 1 Race Women, Race Men and Early Expressions of Proto-Intersectionality, 1830s-1930s - Kathryn T Gines 2 Past as Prologue: Intersectional Analysis from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First - Kristin Waters 3 Making Sense: The Multistability of Oppression and the Importance of Inte…
Europe as an Other
This essay challenges the reduction of Gayatri Spivak's critique of postcolonial reason to functional and derivative identity politics. Such a reading neutralizes the philosophical nature of Spivak's conceptual contributions. Because Spivak is derided as preaching about subaltern victimhood, this essay discerns what is philosophical about the concept of the subaltern. I focus on Spivak's attempt at a space‐clearing gesture that can create the pos…
The (M)other of All Posts
Paul Gilroy's subtle use of Theodor Adorno in Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) misses the opportunity to forge for the postcolonial world a sense of responsibility for the colonial cultures that this postcolonial world helped to create. Gilroy rightly emphasizes the naïveté often associated with attempts to "dwell convivially with difference" (5). His negatively dialectical reading of the deterministic logics of racial difference brings into view …
Autophagia and Queer Transnationality
Philosophy, Postcolonialism, African-American Feminism, and the Race for Theory
Who is the contemporary? Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship 77 Perhaps a strange woman walks down from the corner into my bedroom wasps nest behind her ears she is eating a half-ripe bana
About the Contributors
Shifting Grounds
Shifting Grounds
The (M)other of All Posts
Paul Gilroy's subtle use of Theodor Adorno in Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) misses the opportunity to forge for the postcolonial world a sense of responsibility for the colonial cultures that this postcolonial world helped to create. Gilroy rightly emphasizes the naïveté often associated with attempts to "dwell convivially with difference" (5). His negatively dialectical reading of the deterministic logics of racial difference brings into view …
Philosophy, Postcolonialism, African-American Feminism, and the Race for Theory
Who is the contemporary? Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship 77 Perhaps a strange woman walks down from the corner into my bedroom wasps nest behind her ears she is eating a half-ripe bana
Shifting Grounds
Autophagia and Queer Transnationality
Philosophy, Postcolonialism, African-American Feminism, and the Race for Theory
Who is the contemporary? Jacques Derrida, The Politics of Friendship 77 Perhaps a strange woman walks down from the corner into my bedroom wasps nest behind her ears she is eating a half-ripe bana
About the Contributors
Europe as an Other
This essay challenges the reduction of Gayatri Spivak's critique of postcolonial reason to functional and derivative identity politics. Such a reading neutralizes the philosophical nature of Spivak's conceptual contributions. Because Spivak is derided as preaching about subaltern victimhood, this essay discerns what is philosophical about the concept of the subaltern. I focus on Spivak's attempt at a space‐clearing gesture that can create the pos…
The (M)other of All Posts
Paul Gilroy's subtle use of Theodor Adorno in Postcolonial Melancholia (2005) misses the opportunity to forge for the postcolonial world a sense of responsibility for the colonial cultures that this postcolonial world helped to create. Gilroy rightly emphasizes the naïveté often associated with attempts to "dwell convivially with difference" (5). His negatively dialectical reading of the deterministic logics of racial difference brings into view …
Why Race and Gender Still Matter
Introduction to Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Analysis - Namita Goswami, Maeve M O'Donovan and Lisa Yount Part I: Defining Intersectionality 1 Race Women, Race Men and Early Expressions of Proto-Intersectionality, 1830s-1930s - Kathryn T Gines 2 Past as Prologue: Intersectional Analysis from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First - Kristin Waters 3 Making Sense: The Multistability of Oppression and the Importance of Inte…
Raddi, Phisaddi, and Bekar
Spivak refers to “originary queerness” as a concept she cannot yet theorize. If concepts convey and uphold heterogeneous lived experience, then the paradoxical missing-ness of a corresponding “what happened” augurs a form of understanding underived from information retrieval. In this spot lives our undifferentiated experience such that “one cannot imagine what one seems to know.” Such imagining of what one (already) seems to know is the task of t…
Repairs Are Pending
This essay responds to the polyphonic and prismatic reflections stemming from Subjects That Matter: Philosophy, Feminism, and Postcolonial Theory (2019), especially as the connective and creative works included in this forum seek holistic, profoundly interdisciplinary, and transcontinental discussions on intersectionality and philosophical practice. I seek vibrant, productive connections between diverse projects by attempting to engage a few sali…
“Ye Be the Clear Morag Yourself”
This essay creates a heuristic homology between postcoloniality and strains of survivorship whose very contingency “de-humaniz[es] greed as the primum mobile . . . [and thereby composes] the dangerous supplement, one on one yet collective” (Spivak, “Marx” 281). Using Spivak’s attempt to globalize Marx by abjuring epistemological enterprises that privilege “a philosophically correct structural position” (281) at the expense of the subaltern’s “rig…
Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Identity (music (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)