Kasturi Ray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687655 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kasturi Ray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kasturi |
| FAMILY NAME | Ray |
| SIGNATURE | RAY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Francisco State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Authors’ Response
Beyond the precariat: Race, gender, and labor in the taxi and Uber economy
Uber has been hailed as a revolutionary peer-sharing platform, disrupting the archaic taxi industry, and creating employment and transportation opportunities for an increasingly imperiled middle class. We counter this representation by arguing that Uber’s main innovation is not its app, but the creation of part-time vs. full-time drivers. This durational divide reproduces familiar hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship, with male immigrant …
Rights, affect and precarity: Post-racial formations in carework
Bringing together two sites of carework, the human household and the chimpanzee sanctuary, this article considers the limits of a politics of precarity, where vulnerabilities and differences are conceptualized as shared rather than hierarchical. Outlining the ways the notion of shared precarity produces a post-racial landscape where the labor taking place in human households is rendered equivalent to the work of providing lifelong care for captiv…
Nonnative Identity, Gendered Labor, and Native Homeland in Local Literature from Hawai'i: Marie Hara's Bananaheart and Other Stories
This article traces how women of Japanese descent in Marie Hara's short story collection Bananaheart and Other Stories (1994) lay claim to the Native homeland of Hawai'i through acts of social reproduction. It also analyzes how the land, as repository of repressed histories, emerges as a force of the uncanny to respond to these claims. The ensuing struggles between the characters and land illuminate the relationships among gendered labor, space, …
The “Practice of Humanity”: Neoliberal constructions of domestic workers and “sex slaves”
“Practice of Humanity” examines visual and legal representations of transnational sex and domestic work. Specifically, we analyze a 2003 United Nations public service announcement, Cleaning Lady; the 2000 UN Protocol on Human Trafficking; the 2000 US Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; and current trends in the sociological literatures of both types of work. We demonstrate how these texts allow particular connections between domes…
Beyond the precariat: Race, gender, and labor in the taxi and Uber economy
Uber has been hailed as a revolutionary peer-sharing platform, disrupting the archaic taxi industry, and creating employment and transportation opportunities for an increasingly imperiled middle class. We counter this representation by arguing that Uber’s main innovation is not its app, but the creation of part-time vs. full-time drivers. This durational divide reproduces familiar hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship, with male immigrant …
The “Practice of Humanity”: Neoliberal constructions of domestic workers and “sex slaves”
“Practice of Humanity” examines visual and legal representations of transnational sex and domestic work. Specifically, we analyze a 2003 United Nations public service announcement, Cleaning Lady; the 2000 UN Protocol on Human Trafficking; the 2000 US Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; and current trends in the sociological literatures of both types of work. We demonstrate how these texts allow particular connections between domes…
The “Practice of Humanity”: Neoliberal constructions of domestic workers and “sex slaves”
“Practice of Humanity” examines visual and legal representations of transnational sex and domestic work. Specifically, we analyze a 2003 United Nations public service announcement, Cleaning Lady; the 2000 UN Protocol on Human Trafficking; the 2000 US Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act; and current trends in the sociological literatures of both types of work. We demonstrate how these texts allow particular connections between domes…
Nonnative Identity, Gendered Labor, and Native Homeland in Local Literature from Hawai'i: Marie Hara's Bananaheart and Other Stories
This article traces how women of Japanese descent in Marie Hara's short story collection Bananaheart and Other Stories (1994) lay claim to the Native homeland of Hawai'i through acts of social reproduction. It also analyzes how the land, as repository of repressed histories, emerges as a force of the uncanny to respond to these claims. The ensuing struggles between the characters and land illuminate the relationships among gendered labor, space, …
Rights, affect and precarity: Post-racial formations in carework
Bringing together two sites of carework, the human household and the chimpanzee sanctuary, this article considers the limits of a politics of precarity, where vulnerabilities and differences are conceptualized as shared rather than hierarchical. Outlining the ways the notion of shared precarity produces a post-racial landscape where the labor taking place in human households is rendered equivalent to the work of providing lifelong care for captiv…
Beyond the precariat: Race, gender, and labor in the taxi and Uber economy
Uber has been hailed as a revolutionary peer-sharing platform, disrupting the archaic taxi industry, and creating employment and transportation opportunities for an increasingly imperiled middle class. We counter this representation by arguing that Uber’s main innovation is not its app, but the creation of part-time vs. full-time drivers. This durational divide reproduces familiar hierarchies of race, gender, and citizenship, with male immigrant …
Authors’ Response
Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Advances in Oncology and Radiotherapy (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)