Sourayan Mookerjea
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sourayan Mookerjea |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sourayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mookerjea |
| SIGNATURE | MOOKERJEA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1065-6823 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why are feminist perspectives, analyses, and actions vital to degrowth
Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems.Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodox degrowth movements.In dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, indigenous, and anti-racist efforts, …
Knowings and Knots
Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms
This essay outlines intermedia theory’s contribution to the emerging multiple colonialisms framework and argues that a socio-ecological reproduction feminist approach to the multiple colonialisms problematic is critically necessary for thinking through the contradictions of renewable energy transition. A multiple colonialisms framework needs to be a kind of utopian theorizing, I argue, just as any feminist renewable energy transition seeking to r…
Epilogue
This essay poses three questions with regard to the studies presented in this special issue. What lessons regarding class politics do we draw from these studies of community and its crisis in Wood Buffalo? How are we to assess and understand the prolixity of the rhetoric of community in this context? How do the crises and contradictions of tar sands development in Fort McMurray, Alberta enable us to retheorize the concept of community itself? Bri…
Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism
This essay examines the links between Canadian multiculturalism and racism and presents a critical account of its historical transformation over the last forty years. To this end, the essay discusses the role of multicultural ideology in the formation of the postwar hegemonic historic bloc in which a new national identity emerged out of the ruins of the British Empire and through the passage to U.S. global paramountcy. The essay explores the cont…
Autonomy and Video Mediation
This chapter examines the (re-)production of subaltern or "inthgenous knowledge" through video-based Media of a group of Dalit women farmers from Andhra Pradesh, Intha, who belong to a metha cooperative they have named the Community Metha Trust (CMT). The women of the CMT are a vital and active body in the network of Sangham (agricultural cooperatives) to which they belong, and their metha is politically engaged: Agricultural, environmental issue…
Hérouxville's Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence
After months of hyperbolic media controversy in Quebec regarding the accommodation of religious and cultural minorities (which came to be known as the Reasonable Accommodation Debate) and incidence
Cultural Studies with Multitudes
With all its uncertainties and, indeed, yet alarmingly belligerent prospects, the present conjuncture is marked by a new world-wide acephalous solidarity on the Left (however pushed back and corner
Native Informant as Impossible Perspective
La connaissance produite au moyen de L'ethnographie est longtemps entrée dans la culture populaire, et la propagation de stéréotypes et d'informations à propos de différences culturelles est un trait caractéristique de notre époque. Jusquà présent, L'intégration de L'ethno‐graphie dans les circuits de L'information de la culture postmoderne a peu retenu L'attention de la critique. Comment la recherche ethno‐graphique sur la mondialisation peut‐el…
Migrant multitudes, western transcendence and the politics of creativity
This essay undertakes an immanent critique of Hardt and Negri's theoretical articulation in Empire. Their evasion of postcolonial translation and ethnographic description results in a specific blindness inseparable from their theoretical insight. Empire seeks to establish the case for a direct confrontation with global capital. Is not Hardt and Negri's distrust of local struggles, their inability to conceive how the defense of the local or even o…
Allegory, Stereotype, and the Local Mode of Construction
This article studies the imaginary geography of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's film Calendar and articulates the difference between the film's reflexive narrative concept of global flows and representational concepts of the social sciences. The film tells the story of a couple who travels to Armenia to photograph churches. The story's compelling visibility arises from the difference between a familiar first-world space and that exotic other spa…
Montage in Spatial Ethnography
Montage in Spatial Ethnography: Crystalline Narration and Cultural Studies of Globalization Sourayan Mookerjea (bio) If cultural studies is to make a significant contribution to the current scholarship across disciplines on globalization, then it might address itself to a perplexing representational problem facing the study of global flows. This dilemma may be evoked in the following preliminary way: much of the current theoretical literature on …
Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms
This essay outlines intermedia theory’s contribution to the emerging multiple colonialisms framework and argues that a socio-ecological reproduction feminist approach to the multiple colonialisms problematic is critically necessary for thinking through the contradictions of renewable energy transition. A multiple colonialisms framework needs to be a kind of utopian theorizing, I argue, just as any feminist renewable energy transition seeking to r…
Hérouxville's Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence
After months of hyperbolic media controversy in Quebec regarding the accommodation of religious and cultural minorities (which came to be known as the Reasonable Accommodation Debate) and incidence
Epilogue
This essay poses three questions with regard to the studies presented in this special issue. What lessons regarding class politics do we draw from these studies of community and its crisis in Wood Buffalo? How are we to assess and understand the prolixity of the rhetoric of community in this context? How do the crises and contradictions of tar sands development in Fort McMurray, Alberta enable us to retheorize the concept of community itself? Bri…
Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism
This essay examines the links between Canadian multiculturalism and racism and presents a critical account of its historical transformation over the last forty years. To this end, the essay discusses the role of multicultural ideology in the formation of the postwar hegemonic historic bloc in which a new national identity emerged out of the ruins of the British Empire and through the passage to U.S. global paramountcy. The essay explores the cont…
Montage in Spatial Ethnography
Montage in Spatial Ethnography: Crystalline Narration and Cultural Studies of Globalization Sourayan Mookerjea (bio) If cultural studies is to make a significant contribution to the current scholarship across disciplines on globalization, then it might address itself to a perplexing representational problem facing the study of global flows. This dilemma may be evoked in the following preliminary way: much of the current theoretical literature on …
Allegory, Stereotype, and the Local Mode of Construction
This article studies the imaginary geography of Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan's film Calendar and articulates the difference between the film's reflexive narrative concept of global flows and representational concepts of the social sciences. The film tells the story of a couple who travels to Armenia to photograph churches. The story's compelling visibility arises from the difference between a familiar first-world space and that exotic other spa…
Native Informant as Impossible Perspective
La connaissance produite au moyen de L'ethnographie est longtemps entrée dans la culture populaire, et la propagation de stéréotypes et d'informations à propos de différences culturelles est un trait caractéristique de notre époque. Jusquà présent, L'intégration de L'ethno‐graphie dans les circuits de L'information de la culture postmoderne a peu retenu L'attention de la critique. Comment la recherche ethno‐graphique sur la mondialisation peut‐el…
Migrant multitudes, western transcendence and the politics of creativity
This essay undertakes an immanent critique of Hardt and Negri's theoretical articulation in Empire. Their evasion of postcolonial translation and ethnographic description results in a specific blindness inseparable from their theoretical insight. Empire seeks to establish the case for a direct confrontation with global capital. Is not Hardt and Negri's distrust of local struggles, their inability to conceive how the defense of the local or even o…
Cultural Studies with Multitudes
With all its uncertainties and, indeed, yet alarmingly belligerent prospects, the present conjuncture is marked by a new world-wide acephalous solidarity on the Left (however pushed back and corner
Hérouxville's Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence
After months of hyperbolic media controversy in Quebec regarding the accommodation of religious and cultural minorities (which came to be known as the Reasonable Accommodation Debate) and incidence
Autonomy and Video Mediation
This chapter examines the (re-)production of subaltern or "inthgenous knowledge" through video-based Media of a group of Dalit women farmers from Andhra Pradesh, Intha, who belong to a metha cooperative they have named the Community Metha Trust (CMT). The women of the CMT are a vital and active body in the network of Sangham (agricultural cooperatives) to which they belong, and their metha is politically engaged: Agricultural, environmental issue…
Multiculturalism and Egalitarianism
This essay examines the links between Canadian multiculturalism and racism and presents a critical account of its historical transformation over the last forty years. To this end, the essay discusses the role of multicultural ideology in the formation of the postwar hegemonic historic bloc in which a new national identity emerged out of the ruins of the British Empire and through the passage to U.S. global paramountcy. The essay explores the cont…
Epilogue
This essay poses three questions with regard to the studies presented in this special issue. What lessons regarding class politics do we draw from these studies of community and its crisis in Wood Buffalo? How are we to assess and understand the prolixity of the rhetoric of community in this context? How do the crises and contradictions of tar sands development in Fort McMurray, Alberta enable us to retheorize the concept of community itself? Bri…
Knowings and Knots
Renewable energy transition under multiple colonialisms
This essay outlines intermedia theory’s contribution to the emerging multiple colonialisms framework and argues that a socio-ecological reproduction feminist approach to the multiple colonialisms problematic is critically necessary for thinking through the contradictions of renewable energy transition. A multiple colonialisms framework needs to be a kind of utopian theorizing, I argue, just as any feminist renewable energy transition seeking to r…
Why are feminist perspectives, analyses, and actions vital to degrowth
Feminist analyses of the historical dynamics of gender systems are fundamental to the work of challenging growth-driven political economies, and of designing more equitable and balanced ecosocial systems.Feminist theories and methods that acknowledge and support diverse voices, knowledges, and practices are vital resources for building on heterodox degrowth movements.In dialogue with postcolonial, decolonial, indigenous, and anti-racist efforts, …
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