Amrita Ibrahim
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amrita Ibrahim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amrita |
| FAMILY NAME | Ibrahim |
| SIGNATURE | IBRAHIM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exhibition Reviews
In 2022, the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, organized and launched the ground-breaking exhibition Radical Stitch , North America's largest ever beadwork exhibition to feature contemporary First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American artists. The exhibition, which has been awarded the 2024 Canadian Museums Association/Association des Musées Canadiens Award of Outstanding Achievement, is curated by an esteemed Indigenous…
The Moving City
Reviewed by: The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure by Rashmi Sadana Amrita Ibrahim Sadana, Rashmi. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. University of California Press, 2021. 274 pp. Working from home during the pandemic, one of the things I missed most about pre-pandemic life was commuting on the metro. Only I didn't realize this until I went back to work …
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown
Using 10 photographs taken during the first lockdown in the United States during the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020, this photo essay is a reflection on the role of photographs in anthropological documentation and teaching. It also considers how the pandemic has forced us to reconfigure ideas of the field as "elsewhere" by making "home" the site of analysis
Law, Love, and Marriage
Journalism's mandate is a paradoxical one: to publicize stories of social injustice and sustain their visibility in the public domain, while battling the decay of publicity that is inherent in the very genre of information that is daily news. In this article, I argue that the legitimacy and credibility that Hindi crime journalists create for stories relies on their keen understanding of a complex terrain of institutional scripts and social action…
The not-so-happy ever after
This article explores the moral dimensions of corruption in a region of everyday life typically diametrically opposed to the public-the domestic. I argue that Hindi television journalists cover crime within the family as an event that exposes domestic intimacies as already morally fraught and subject to betrayal, rather than the haven from modernity and westernisation that normative (patriarchal) discourse idealises. This journalistic impetus to …
Who is a bigger terrorist than the police?’ Photography as a politics of encounter in Delhi's Batla House
Though spectacularly televised, the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai were not the only live event of terror in 2008. In September, news channels broadcast a live encounter in which police killed two young Muslim men in Batla House, Delhi, sparking a widespread local campaign against state violence. This essay explores the publicizing work of photography in the campaign as a political act that disrupts dominant narratives of Islamic terrorism generated by …
The not-so-happy ever after
This article explores the moral dimensions of corruption in a region of everyday life typically diametrically opposed to the public-the domestic. I argue that Hindi television journalists cover crime within the family as an event that exposes domestic intimacies as already morally fraught and subject to betrayal, rather than the haven from modernity and westernisation that normative (patriarchal) discourse idealises. This journalistic impetus to …
Who is a bigger terrorist than the police?’ Photography as a politics of encounter in Delhi's Batla House
Though spectacularly televised, the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai were not the only live event of terror in 2008. In September, news channels broadcast a live encounter in which police killed two young Muslim men in Batla House, Delhi, sparking a widespread local campaign against state violence. This essay explores the publicizing work of photography in the campaign as a political act that disrupts dominant narratives of Islamic terrorism generated by …
Who is a bigger terrorist than the police?’ Photography as a politics of encounter in Delhi's Batla House
Though spectacularly televised, the 26/11 attacks on Mumbai were not the only live event of terror in 2008. In September, news channels broadcast a live encounter in which police killed two young Muslim men in Batla House, Delhi, sparking a widespread local campaign against state violence. This essay explores the publicizing work of photography in the campaign as a political act that disrupts dominant narratives of Islamic terrorism generated by …
The not-so-happy ever after
This article explores the moral dimensions of corruption in a region of everyday life typically diametrically opposed to the public-the domestic. I argue that Hindi television journalists cover crime within the family as an event that exposes domestic intimacies as already morally fraught and subject to betrayal, rather than the haven from modernity and westernisation that normative (patriarchal) discourse idealises. This journalistic impetus to …
Law, Love, and Marriage
Journalism's mandate is a paradoxical one: to publicize stories of social injustice and sustain their visibility in the public domain, while battling the decay of publicity that is inherent in the very genre of information that is daily news. In this article, I argue that the legitimacy and credibility that Hindi crime journalists create for stories relies on their keen understanding of a complex terrain of institutional scripts and social action…
Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity
A Chronicle of Life in Lockdown
Using 10 photographs taken during the first lockdown in the United States during the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020, this photo essay is a reflection on the role of photographs in anthropological documentation and teaching. It also considers how the pandemic has forced us to reconfigure ideas of the field as "elsewhere" by making "home" the site of analysis
The Moving City
Reviewed by: The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure by Rashmi Sadana Amrita Ibrahim Sadana, Rashmi. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. University of California Press, 2021. 274 pp. Working from home during the pandemic, one of the things I missed most about pre-pandemic life was commuting on the metro. Only I didn't realize this until I went back to work …
Exhibition Reviews
In 2022, the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, organized and launched the ground-breaking exhibition Radical Stitch , North America's largest ever beadwork exhibition to feature contemporary First Nations, Métis, Inuit, and Native American artists. The exhibition, which has been awarded the 2024 Canadian Museums Association/Association des Musées Canadiens Award of Outstanding Achievement, is curated by an esteemed Indigenous…
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · History (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Geography (2 works)