Nithila Kanagasabai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649017 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nithila Kanagasabai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nithila |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanagasabai |
| SIGNATURE | KANAGASABAI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1584-2051 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south
This paper seeks to reflect on the ways in which a non-metropolitan academic feminist community engages with digital media to reimagine the discipline of Women’s Studies, and consequently feminist politics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Women’s Studies Centre at a university in Tamil Nadu, India, this paper moves away from the framework of the digital as simply enabling or empowering, and instead seeks to examine these digital cu…
Forging Fraught Solidarities
Friendship has been central to the forging of feminist solidarities. Cross-border friendships and feminist activism in South Asia have disrupted narratives of violence and hostility between countries. Friendship then is deeply political for multiple reasons, often facilitating a powerful critique and unsettling hegemonic, heteropatriarchal narratives of affective relationships. Drawing on the narratives of feminist activists in South Asia, we exp…
Forever fields
While there is a multitude of academic work with respect to cross-border collaborations between South Asian countries and the US, almost all of it is produced by scholars located in US universities, either as tenured faculty or as doctoral students. Much of this work is predicated upon the access these scholars have to stakeholders in both countries, which is dependent on the predominantly one-way flow of gaze/theory from the global North. Based …
Fictions, Frictions and Fragments
Building on critiques of 'traditional' fieldwork methods that not only reproduce masculinist and imperialist epistemes but also circumscribe possibilities of what can be studied and by whom, this article unpacks what it might mean to study the global North from the global South. My research focuses on the figure of the Indian doctoral candidate, with field sites in India, engaging in feminist knowledge production within American universities. My …
Possibilities of transformation
Existing scholarship on knowledge mobilities tends to focus on the largest metropolitan centres as loci of education and employment and as desirable destinations for knowledge migrants. This paper draws attention to the ways in which the spaces of learning in non-metropolitan locations intersect with circulations of disciplinary knowledge and aspiration to generate opportunities for social and spatial mobility. It is premised on the idea that the…
In the silences of a newsroom
This paper explores the impact of liberalisation and globalisation on the construction of the gendered self within the space of Indian English-language television newsrooms. Using the lived knowledge of women journalists, the paper seeks to map the intersections of ageism, sexism, and capitalism in these neoliberal newsroom settings. It posits that the weakening of journalists' unions, the expansion of women workers in newsrooms, and the evolutio…
Forever fields
While there is a multitude of academic work with respect to cross-border collaborations between South Asian countries and the US, almost all of it is produced by scholars located in US universities, either as tenured faculty or as doctoral students. Much of this work is predicated upon the access these scholars have to stakeholders in both countries, which is dependent on the predominantly one-way flow of gaze/theory from the global North. Based …
In the silences of a newsroom
This paper explores the impact of liberalisation and globalisation on the construction of the gendered self within the space of Indian English-language television newsrooms. Using the lived knowledge of women journalists, the paper seeks to map the intersections of ageism, sexism, and capitalism in these neoliberal newsroom settings. It posits that the weakening of journalists' unions, the expansion of women workers in newsrooms, and the evolutio…
Possibilities of transformation
Existing scholarship on knowledge mobilities tends to focus on the largest metropolitan centres as loci of education and employment and as desirable destinations for knowledge migrants. This paper draws attention to the ways in which the spaces of learning in non-metropolitan locations intersect with circulations of disciplinary knowledge and aspiration to generate opportunities for social and spatial mobility. It is premised on the idea that the…
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south
This paper seeks to reflect on the ways in which a non-metropolitan academic feminist community engages with digital media to reimagine the discipline of Women’s Studies, and consequently feminist politics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Women’s Studies Centre at a university in Tamil Nadu, India, this paper moves away from the framework of the digital as simply enabling or empowering, and instead seeks to examine these digital cu…
In the silences of a newsroom
This paper explores the impact of liberalisation and globalisation on the construction of the gendered self within the space of Indian English-language television newsrooms. Using the lived knowledge of women journalists, the paper seeks to map the intersections of ageism, sexism, and capitalism in these neoliberal newsroom settings. It posits that the weakening of journalists' unions, the expansion of women workers in newsrooms, and the evolutio…
Possibilities of transformation
Existing scholarship on knowledge mobilities tends to focus on the largest metropolitan centres as loci of education and employment and as desirable destinations for knowledge migrants. This paper draws attention to the ways in which the spaces of learning in non-metropolitan locations intersect with circulations of disciplinary knowledge and aspiration to generate opportunities for social and spatial mobility. It is premised on the idea that the…
Forging Fraught Solidarities
Friendship has been central to the forging of feminist solidarities. Cross-border friendships and feminist activism in South Asia have disrupted narratives of violence and hostility between countries. Friendship then is deeply political for multiple reasons, often facilitating a powerful critique and unsettling hegemonic, heteropatriarchal narratives of affective relationships. Drawing on the narratives of feminist activists in South Asia, we exp…
Forever fields
While there is a multitude of academic work with respect to cross-border collaborations between South Asian countries and the US, almost all of it is produced by scholars located in US universities, either as tenured faculty or as doctoral students. Much of this work is predicated upon the access these scholars have to stakeholders in both countries, which is dependent on the predominantly one-way flow of gaze/theory from the global North. Based …
Fictions, Frictions and Fragments
Building on critiques of 'traditional' fieldwork methods that not only reproduce masculinist and imperialist epistemes but also circumscribe possibilities of what can be studied and by whom, this article unpacks what it might mean to study the global North from the global South. My research focuses on the figure of the Indian doctoral candidate, with field sites in India, engaging in feminist knowledge production within American universities. My …
Whose feminism is it anyway? Reinterpreting digital media and feminisms from the non-metropolitan global south
This paper seeks to reflect on the ways in which a non-metropolitan academic feminist community engages with digital media to reimagine the discipline of Women’s Studies, and consequently feminist politics. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in a Women’s Studies Centre at a university in Tamil Nadu, India, this paper moves away from the framework of the digital as simply enabling or empowering, and instead seeks to examine these digital cu…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Feminism (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Discipline (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)