Mita Banerjee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mita Banerjee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mita |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerjee |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJEE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Handling of Online Information by Prospective Teachers: A Complementary Analysis Using Narration and Reconstruction Approaches
‘Strange Fish’ in the Mediterranean Sea: Towards a humanities of care
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept
A Small Place recounts "sitting across from an Englishman" who, as a result of the collapse of the British empire, looked "so sad, sitting on the rubbish heap of history" (30)(31).In likening the historical contribution of the English to the accumulation of trash, Kincaid portrays the past as an accretion of stuff or a reservoir of pollution, rather than something that is simply elapsed and unrecoverable.The metaphorical rubbish of history that t…
The gap between knowledge and belief: Narrative, affect and students’ deeper learning in higher education
One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of contradictory sources of information, many of which are biased or untrustworthy. Based on existing research, th…
First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
Focusing on First Nations traditional medicine, we investigated whether traditional knowledge of medicinal plants can be validated by modern scientific methods of molecular and cellular pharmacology and whether this information is of value for improving current therapy options. Based on two projects on medicinal plants of the Gwich’in – a First Nations group on the Canadian North West Coast – we found that extracts from several plants traditional…
Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
ing & Indexing
Life Sciences—Life Writing: PTSD as a Transdisciplinary Entity between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience
Since the second half of the 20th century, the life sciences have become one of the dominant explanatory models for almost every aspect of human life. Hand in hand with biomedical developments and technologies, the life sciences are constantly shaping and reshaping human lives and changing human biographies in manifold ways. The orientation towards life sciences and biomedicine from the very beginning to the end of human life is driven by the uto…
Captious certainties: Makings, meanings and misreadings of consumer-oriented genetic testing
Travelling Theory, Reshaping Disciplines? Envisioning Asian Germany through Asian Australian Studies
This article explores the possibility of creating an Asian German Studies by exploring the ‘coming into being’ of Asian Australian studies as an academic discipline. I suggest that such a transdisciplinary, transnational dialogue might draw attention to the ways in which disciplines are created and the (nationally and culturally specific) obstacles with which their institutionalisation has to contend. An Asian German Studies might be situated at …
Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and the normative as comic
Traveling Barbies' and rolling blackouts Images of mobility in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
This article proposes to read Mira Nair's film Monsoon Wedding through a critical framework provided by transnational anthropology. Such a framework suggests that approaches celebrating transnational mobility must be balanced against nationally specific forms of constraint. It is argued that Monsoon Wedding bears out precisely such a balance. Nair's film suggests that the mobility of human lives may not be quite as unfettered as that of cultural …
Travelling Theory, Reshaping Disciplines? Envisioning Asian Germany through Asian Australian Studies
This article explores the possibility of creating an Asian German Studies by exploring the ‘coming into being’ of Asian Australian studies as an academic discipline. I suggest that such a transdisciplinary, transnational dialogue might draw attention to the ways in which disciplines are created and the (nationally and culturally specific) obstacles with which their institutionalisation has to contend. An Asian German Studies might be situated at …
Traveling Barbies' and rolling blackouts Images of mobility in Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding
This article proposes to read Mira Nair's film Monsoon Wedding through a critical framework provided by transnational anthropology. Such a framework suggests that approaches celebrating transnational mobility must be balanced against nationally specific forms of constraint. It is argued that Monsoon Wedding bears out precisely such a balance. Nair's film suggests that the mobility of human lives may not be quite as unfettered as that of cultural …
Queer laughter: Shyam Selvadurai’s Funny Boy and the normative as comic
Travelling Theory, Reshaping Disciplines? Envisioning Asian Germany through Asian Australian Studies
This article explores the possibility of creating an Asian German Studies by exploring the ‘coming into being’ of Asian Australian studies as an academic discipline. I suggest that such a transdisciplinary, transnational dialogue might draw attention to the ways in which disciplines are created and the (nationally and culturally specific) obstacles with which their institutionalisation has to contend. An Asian German Studies might be situated at …
Captious certainties: Makings, meanings and misreadings of consumer-oriented genetic testing
Life Sciences—Life Writing: PTSD as a Transdisciplinary Entity between Biomedical Explanation and Lived Experience
Since the second half of the 20th century, the life sciences have become one of the dominant explanatory models for almost every aspect of human life. Hand in hand with biomedical developments and technologies, the life sciences are constantly shaping and reshaping human lives and changing human biographies in manifold ways. The orientation towards life sciences and biomedicine from the very beginning to the end of human life is driven by the uto…
Ecocriticism and Postcolonial Studies
ing & Indexing
First Nations Healing: From Traditional Medicine to Experimental Ethnopharmacology
Focusing on First Nations traditional medicine, we investigated whether traditional knowledge of medicinal plants can be validated by modern scientific methods of molecular and cellular pharmacology and whether this information is of value for improving current therapy options. Based on two projects on medicinal plants of the Gwich’in – a First Nations group on the Canadian North West Coast – we found that extracts from several plants traditional…
The gap between knowledge and belief: Narrative, affect and students’ deeper learning in higher education
One of the central challenges educators face today, especially in higher education, is the gap between warranted (domain-specific) knowledge and the prior beliefs students hold about certain concepts and phenomena (preconceptions). In the Internet age, students often self-directedly acquire knowledge from an increasingly large number of contradictory sources of information, many of which are biased or untrustworthy. Based on existing research, th…
Cultures of Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century: Literary and Cultural Perspectives on a Legal Concept
A Small Place recounts "sitting across from an Englishman" who, as a result of the collapse of the British empire, looked "so sad, sitting on the rubbish heap of history" (30)(31).In likening the historical contribution of the English to the accumulation of trash, Kincaid portrays the past as an accretion of stuff or a reservoir of pollution, rather than something that is simply elapsed and unrecoverable.The metaphorical rubbish of history that t…
Critical Handling of Online Information by Prospective Teachers: A Complementary Analysis Using Narration and Reconstruction Approaches
‘Strange Fish’ in the Mediterranean Sea: Towards a humanities of care
History (5 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)