Sukhmani Khorana
Biographic Data
| ID | 3649253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukhmani Khorana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukhmani |
| FAMILY NAME | Khorana |
| SIGNATURE | KHORANA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Governing diversity through AI
Public service media are adopting artificial intelligence at a moment when diversity, equity and inclusion policies are increasingly politicised. Drawing on comparative qualitative research in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article examines how AI is embedded within Public Service Media governance and platformised audience infrastructures. We argue that AI operates not merely as a technical tool but as a cultural and institutional logic t…
Wronged
Migrant Civic Practices in Times of Crisis
Given the increasing prevalence of contemporary intersecting global and local crises that impact migrants and discourses of migration, this collated issue offers a timely and important analysis that brings together scholarship of migrant civic practices in times of crisis. The special issue covers instances of migrant contributions in local and transnational communities during a global pandemic, as well as ongoing crises that are global in nature…
Running in the Family
This article presents and analyses findings from a pilot project in which seventeen young first- and second-generation migrants resident in metropolitan Sydney were interviewed about their environmental care practices. From this and other comparable studies, it theorises about the value of documenting and framing intergenerational migrant practices that may or may not be deliberately framed as 'environmentalism' as a form of civic practice workin…
Interview on 'Mediated Emotions of Migration'
This discussion piece between Elaine Swan and Sukhmani Khorana contextualises Khorana's new book in her research trajectories in refugee and media studies, and also unpacks new directions in exploring social movements and how they intersect with the study of emotions and practices of anti-racism. Swan and Khorana share many similar interests in food and intercultural studies, and in critiques of organisational equity and diversity – this intervie…
Diversity
The topic of ‘diversity’ in the context of the Australian media was once shorthand for the representation of cultural diversity on film and television screens and, to some extent, behind-the-scenes. This issue has not disappeared. Of late, it has been documented in a Screen Australia report (2016) and received attention from advocacy organisations and media institutions. At the same time, ‘diversity’ has also become a gateway to broader conversat…
Mediated Emotions of Migration
Mediated Emotions of Migration
This book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. For this, it draws on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum seeking from the Global North. The case studies shed light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of posi…
Introduction
This special issue of Media International Australia responds to an increasingly visible trend in the performing arts and screen industry in Australia that has identified diversity as a valuable cultural phenomenon and urges greater representation and access to work in the media for Australians of diverse backgrounds. Studies undertaken by Screen Australia (2016), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2016), and Diversity Arts Australi…
Emotions in Late Modernity
Self-distribution and Mary Meets Mohammad
Heather Kirkpatrick's Mary Meets Mohammad is a noteworthy case study of an Australian documentary feature that was not only privately funded, but one that was also used in unconventional community screenings and social media publicity to eventually get the attention of the mainstream media, distribution networks and human rights film festivals. In other words, it bypassed the local and international film festival exhibition route traditionally us…
Voicing Demands
Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transnational Contexts." Australian Feminist Studies, 30(83), pp. 102–103
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
The Political is Populist
Emerging literature on the rapid rise of 24-hour commercial news television in India in the last decade, as well as popular and editorial commentary on the above phenomenon, suggests that these channels are playing the role of mediators for the middle classes. While the news content is widely believed to be sensationalised for the sake of attaining higher ratings in an overcrowded and competitive market, political talk shows have turned into the …
From 'De-wogged' Migrants to 'Rabble Rousers
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009–2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on dias…
Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony
Using Partha Chatterjee's insights on the formation of 'civil society' and how this is distinct from 'political society', this paper theorises the mobilisation of popular support via social media during the so-called 'anti-corruption movement' in India in 2011. It tracks the main themes of the civil society-led movement's Twitter feeds during two crucial phases of fasting by its self-proclaimed Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare. This highlights the mi…
Gender Mores on Indian Tv
While India's booming entertainment channels are often examined for their lifestyle content, the nation's equally vibrant English-language news networks can also be read as offering lifestyle-oriented content and advice. Talk shows of both the controlled panel debate and the more interactive studio audience discussion variety often veer into social commentary, particularly on issues pertaining to the transitioning social values of the middle clas…
Film festivals and beyond
In the last five years, Australian films centred on Indigenous characters, such as Ten Canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006), Samson and Delilah (Thornton, 2009) and The Tall Man (Krawitz, 2011) have been applauded for their sensitive engagement with traditional Aboriginal stories as well as with contemporary issues. While all three films premiered at Australian film festivals, received limited cinema releases, did the rounds of the international ar…
Orientalising the Emerging Media Capitals
This article foregrounds the manifestation of a contemporary Orientalist discourse in the global media sphere by reading the increasingly robust non-Western 'other' that is the Indian TV media through its remediation in the Melbourne-based paper, The Age. The particular institutions have been chosen due to the 'quality journalism' reputation of the latter outlet, and the frequency of references to the Indian media - particularly its numerous news…
Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony
Using Partha Chatterjee's insights on the formation of 'civil society' and how this is distinct from 'political society', this paper theorises the mobilisation of popular support via social media during the so-called 'anti-corruption movement' in India in 2011. It tracks the main themes of the civil society-led movement's Twitter feeds during two crucial phases of fasting by its self-proclaimed Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare. This highlights the mi…
From 'De-wogged' Migrants to 'Rabble Rousers
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009–2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on dias…
Running in the Family
This article presents and analyses findings from a pilot project in which seventeen young first- and second-generation migrants resident in metropolitan Sydney were interviewed about their environmental care practices. From this and other comparable studies, it theorises about the value of documenting and framing intergenerational migrant practices that may or may not be deliberately framed as 'environmentalism' as a form of civic practice workin…
Film festivals and beyond
In the last five years, Australian films centred on Indigenous characters, such as Ten Canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006), Samson and Delilah (Thornton, 2009) and The Tall Man (Krawitz, 2011) have been applauded for their sensitive engagement with traditional Aboriginal stories as well as with contemporary issues. While all three films premiered at Australian film festivals, received limited cinema releases, did the rounds of the international ar…
Orientalising the Emerging Media Capitals
This article foregrounds the manifestation of a contemporary Orientalist discourse in the global media sphere by reading the increasingly robust non-Western 'other' that is the Indian TV media through its remediation in the Melbourne-based paper, The Age. The particular institutions have been chosen due to the 'quality journalism' reputation of the latter outlet, and the frequency of references to the Indian media - particularly its numerous news…
Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony
Using Partha Chatterjee's insights on the formation of 'civil society' and how this is distinct from 'political society', this paper theorises the mobilisation of popular support via social media during the so-called 'anti-corruption movement' in India in 2011. It tracks the main themes of the civil society-led movement's Twitter feeds during two crucial phases of fasting by its self-proclaimed Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare. This highlights the mi…
Gender Mores on Indian Tv
While India's booming entertainment channels are often examined for their lifestyle content, the nation's equally vibrant English-language news networks can also be read as offering lifestyle-oriented content and advice. Talk shows of both the controlled panel debate and the more interactive studio audience discussion variety often veer into social commentary, particularly on issues pertaining to the transitioning social values of the middle clas…
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
The Political is Populist
Emerging literature on the rapid rise of 24-hour commercial news television in India in the last decade, as well as popular and editorial commentary on the above phenomenon, suggests that these channels are playing the role of mediators for the middle classes. While the news content is widely believed to be sensationalised for the sake of attaining higher ratings in an overcrowded and competitive market, political talk shows have turned into the …
From 'De-wogged' Migrants to 'Rabble Rousers
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009–2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on dias…
Self-distribution and Mary Meets Mohammad
Heather Kirkpatrick's Mary Meets Mohammad is a noteworthy case study of an Australian documentary feature that was not only privately funded, but one that was also used in unconventional community screenings and social media publicity to eventually get the attention of the mainstream media, distribution networks and human rights film festivals. In other words, it bypassed the local and international film festival exhibition route traditionally us…
Voicing Demands
Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transnational Contexts." Australian Feminist Studies, 30(83), pp. 102–103
Emotions in Late Modernity
Introduction
This special issue of Media International Australia responds to an increasingly visible trend in the performing arts and screen industry in Australia that has identified diversity as a valuable cultural phenomenon and urges greater representation and access to work in the media for Australians of diverse backgrounds. Studies undertaken by Screen Australia (2016), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2016), and Diversity Arts Australi…
Mediated Emotions of Migration
Mediated Emotions of Migration
This book unpacks how emotions and affect are key conceptual lenses for understanding contemporary processes and discourses around migration. For this, it draws on empirical research, grassroots projects with migrants and refugees, and mediated stories of migration and asylum seeking from the Global North. The case studies shed light on the affects of empathy, aspiration and belonging to reveal how they can be harnessed as public emotions of posi…
Diversity
The topic of ‘diversity’ in the context of the Australian media was once shorthand for the representation of cultural diversity on film and television screens and, to some extent, behind-the-scenes. This issue has not disappeared. Of late, it has been documented in a Screen Australia report (2016) and received attention from advocacy organisations and media institutions. At the same time, ‘diversity’ has also become a gateway to broader conversat…
Interview on 'Mediated Emotions of Migration'
This discussion piece between Elaine Swan and Sukhmani Khorana contextualises Khorana's new book in her research trajectories in refugee and media studies, and also unpacks new directions in exploring social movements and how they intersect with the study of emotions and practices of anti-racism. Swan and Khorana share many similar interests in food and intercultural studies, and in critiques of organisational equity and diversity – this intervie…
Wronged
Migrant Civic Practices in Times of Crisis
Given the increasing prevalence of contemporary intersecting global and local crises that impact migrants and discourses of migration, this collated issue offers a timely and important analysis that brings together scholarship of migrant civic practices in times of crisis. The special issue covers instances of migrant contributions in local and transnational communities during a global pandemic, as well as ongoing crises that are global in nature…
Running in the Family
This article presents and analyses findings from a pilot project in which seventeen young first- and second-generation migrants resident in metropolitan Sydney were interviewed about their environmental care practices. From this and other comparable studies, it theorises about the value of documenting and framing intergenerational migrant practices that may or may not be deliberately framed as 'environmentalism' as a form of civic practice workin…
Governing diversity through AI
Public service media are adopting artificial intelligence at a moment when diversity, equity and inclusion policies are increasingly politicised. Drawing on comparative qualitative research in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article examines how AI is embedded within Public Service Media governance and platformised audience infrastructures. We argue that AI operates not merely as a technical tool but as a cultural and institutional logic t…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works)