Jigna Desai
Biographic Data
| ID | 364367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jigna Desai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jigna |
| FAMILY NAME | Desai |
| SIGNATURE | DESAI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gender Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0366-0349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women's, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006-2018
This report shows that job opportunities in the field of gender, women’s, sexuality, feminist, and queer studies (GWSFQS) in the United States, while fluctuating, grew strongly in the decade after the 2007–9 recession. Growth in advertised GWSFQS jobs outpaced growth in advertised jobs in the traditional disciplines of English, history, and sociology over this period; it also outpaced growth in similar interdisciplinary fields. The data presented…
The epistemological foundations of data science: A critical review
The modern abundance and prominence of data have led to the development of “data science” as a new field of enquiry, along with a body of epistemological reflections upon its foundations, methods, and consequences. This article provides a systematic analysis and critical review of significant open problems and debates in the epistemology of data science. We propose a partition of the epistemology of data science into the following five domains: (…
Subjunctively Inhabiting the University
Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940: Race and Migration in the South
This chapter examines the impact of various state apparatuses, including exclusion laws, on the little remarked but fascinating Chinese American merchant communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia. Federal Chinese Exclusion laws established a highly selective exemption system designed to prevent most Chinese from entering and reentering the United States. The law explicitly barred the first-time entry of laborers but allowed Chinese t…
Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South
The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Between 1950 and 2000, the Asian American population in the American South increased more than one hundred times, much higher than the national average and the greatest increase among all regions of the United States. Extending the understanding of race and ethn…
Nodes of connectivity: Transnational and global advocacy at the popular level
Race, Violence, and Terror: The Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair
Race, Violence, and TerrorThe Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair amy l. brandzel (bio) and jigna desai (bio) You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust fund wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac weren't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedo…
Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras
Critical readings of "chick lit" are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of "postfeminism" in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian American chick lit as a particular women of color subgenre, this essay steps away from the framework of postfeminism that so dominates academic and popular discussions of chick lit, and instead uses critical race and transnati…
Bollywood Audiences Editorial1
Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film
Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and …
Beyond Bollywood: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film
Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and …
Bombay Boys and Girls: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Transnationality in the New Indian Cinema in English
This article interrogates the transnational and cosmopolitan cinema in English emerging recently in India. Made by and for an English-speaking bourgeoisie, this new cinema, characterised by such films as Bombay Boys and Hyderabad Blues, frequently seeks to dissect critically the increasing presence of diaspora within the postcolonial nation-state in the moment of increasing globalisation processes. The essay discusses how South Asian diasporic cu…
Homo on the Range
Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras
Critical readings of "chick lit" are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of "postfeminism" in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian American chick lit as a particular women of color subgenre, this essay steps away from the framework of postfeminism that so dominates academic and popular discussions of chick lit, and instead uses critical race and transnati…
Bombay Boys and Girls: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Transnationality in the New Indian Cinema in English
This article interrogates the transnational and cosmopolitan cinema in English emerging recently in India. Made by and for an English-speaking bourgeoisie, this new cinema, characterised by such films as Bombay Boys and Hyderabad Blues, frequently seeks to dissect critically the increasing presence of diaspora within the postcolonial nation-state in the moment of increasing globalisation processes. The essay discusses how South Asian diasporic cu…
Subjunctively Inhabiting the University
Race, Violence, and Terror: The Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair
Race, Violence, and TerrorThe Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair amy l. brandzel (bio) and jigna desai (bio) You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust fund wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac weren't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedo…
Homo on the Range
Homo on the Range
Bombay Boys and Girls: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Transnationality in the New Indian Cinema in English
This article interrogates the transnational and cosmopolitan cinema in English emerging recently in India. Made by and for an English-speaking bourgeoisie, this new cinema, characterised by such films as Bombay Boys and Hyderabad Blues, frequently seeks to dissect critically the increasing presence of diaspora within the postcolonial nation-state in the moment of increasing globalisation processes. The essay discusses how South Asian diasporic cu…
Beyond Bollywood: The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film
Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and …
Beyond Bollywood: The cultural politics of South Asian diasporic film
Beyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the "Brown Atlantic" through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and …
Bollywood Audiences Editorial1
Race, Violence, and Terror: The Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair
Race, Violence, and TerrorThe Cultural Defensibility of Heteromasculine Citizenship in the Virginia Tech Massacre and the Don Imus Affair amy l. brandzel (bio) and jigna desai (bio) You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats. Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust fund wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac weren't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedo…
Manolos, Marriage, and Mantras
Critical readings of "chick lit" are typically limited to a framework that understands the popular fiction genre as a sign or symptom of "postfeminism" in the U.S. In its readings of chick lit in general, and of South Asian American chick lit as a particular women of color subgenre, this essay steps away from the framework of postfeminism that so dominates academic and popular discussions of chick lit, and instead uses critical race and transnati…
Nodes of connectivity: Transnational and global advocacy at the popular level
Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South
The migrations of Manilamen, Bengali Muslim peddlers, and Chinese merchants and coolies extend the history of Asian Americans in the South into the early nineteenth and twentieth century. Between 1950 and 2000, the Asian American population in the American South increased more than one hundred times, much higher than the national average and the greatest increase among all regions of the United States. Extending the understanding of race and ethn…
Segregation, Exclusion, and the Chinese Communities in Georgia, 1880s-1940: Race and Migration in the South
This chapter examines the impact of various state apparatuses, including exclusion laws, on the little remarked but fascinating Chinese American merchant communities in Atlanta, Augusta, and Savannah, Georgia. Federal Chinese Exclusion laws established a highly selective exemption system designed to prevent most Chinese from entering and reentering the United States. The law explicitly barred the first-time entry of laborers but allowed Chinese t…
Subjunctively Inhabiting the University
The epistemological foundations of data science: A critical review
The modern abundance and prominence of data have led to the development of “data science” as a new field of enquiry, along with a body of epistemological reflections upon its foundations, methods, and consequences. This article provides a systematic analysis and critical review of significant open problems and debates in the epistemology of data science. We propose a partition of the epistemology of data science into the following five domains: (…
A Report on the Academic Job Market in Gender, Women's, Sexuality, Feminist, and Queer Studies, 2006-2018
This report shows that job opportunities in the field of gender, women’s, sexuality, feminist, and queer studies (GWSFQS) in the United States, while fluctuating, grew strongly in the decade after the 2007–9 recession. Growth in advertised GWSFQS jobs outpaced growth in advertised jobs in the traditional disciplines of English, history, and sociology over this period; it also outpaced growth in similar interdisciplinary fields. The data presented…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)