Srirupa Prasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Srirupa Prasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Srirupa |
| FAMILY NAME | Prasad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASAD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Off the Record
Archives should be considered an influential space in the production, circulation and exchange of affects. Archives become a field of intersecting affects – handling of records by archivists and archive staff members, reader/researcher receiving (or not), the touching of old yellowing documents and the realisation for the reader that they are one in a long line of readers who have held and read that document. Based on my personal experiences, mem…
Conclusion
In 1894, in an article in a well-known Bengali medical journal, Chikitsa Sammilani, the author recounted a story of the goddess of cholera’s visit to a village: One night as a saint sat under a tree deep in meditation he heard a lone woman entering the village. Surprised at the sight of a woman all by herself so late at night the saint asked her who she was. The woman said that she was the goddess of cholera and that she was heading to the villag…
Imagining the Social Body
Women’s autobiographical writings — memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies — are no longer archival outliers. In the last 30 years historians and literary critics have enthusiastically embraced them as legitimate archival material. This chapter, drawing on this critical scholarship, explores the construction of an ethic of care within the autobiographical writings of three Bengali women during the first half of the twentieth century
Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broade
Sanitizing The Domestic
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was an unprecedented wave of publications on health and hygiene in Bengali. In these publications, the household, or the “domestic,” was advocated as a crucial site for the practice of health and hygiene. This article analyzes the writings of Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay, Radha Gobinda Kar, and Saratkumari Chaudhurani, three well-known writers and educators who wrote extensively on health, hygiene…
Imaginative geography, neoliberal globalization, and colonial distinctions
Information Technology (IT) 'outsourcing,' of which medical transcription in India is a part, has received relatively little attention from geographers. Most often, it has been bracketed more broadly within IT and its role in transforming transnational space-time configurations has been analyzed. IT outsourcing, more specifically, medical transcription outsourcing, which is the focus of this article, is not only marked by tensions, hierarchies, a…
Reproductive Health in India
Reviewed by: Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies Srirupa Prasad Sarah Hodges, ed. Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies. New Perspectives in South Asian History, no. 13. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006. ix + 264 pp. Rs. 620.00 (81-250-2939-7). Although the topics of women and gender are recent entries in the historical scholarship on medicine in India, in a relatively short period of time they h…
Crisis, Identity, and Social Distinction
This paper explores the culture of taste in the production of an urban, Hindu, Bengali middle class in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bengal/India. It analyzes how the Bengali middle class, the bhadralok, attempted to construct a "doxa" of gastronomy in order to subsume a dominant position for itself and to classify hierarchically other classes and social groups. The aspirations of this class as the future guardians of an incipient…
Colonialism as Civilizing Mission
Reviewed by: Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India ed. by Harald Fischer-Tine and Michael Mann Srirupa Prasad Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India. Edited by Harald Fischer-Tine and Michael Mann. London: Anthem Press, 2004. Colonialism as Civilizing Mission takes a fresh look at one of the most complex yet productive “tensions”[1] that remained at the heart of colonialism—the “civil…
Trans-Status Subjects
Book Review| May 01 2005 Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002 xii + 344 pp., $22.95 (paper) Srirupa Prasad Srirupa Prasad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 259–260. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-259 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Work-Family Relations in Transnational Perspective
This article presents a transnational analysis of work-family relations. Comparing three high-tech firms in India and the United States, we find that employees in each country establish different work-family boundaries. While those in the United States tend to prefer an integration of work and family realms through permeable boundaries, employees in India more often support a separation between work and family spheres through solid boundaries. Ou…
Work-Family Relations in Transnational Perspective
This article presents a transnational analysis of work-family relations. Comparing three high-tech firms in India and the United States, we find that employees in each country establish different work-family boundaries. While those in the United States tend to prefer an integration of work and family realms through permeable boundaries, employees in India more often support a separation between work and family spheres through solid boundaries. Ou…
Crisis, Identity, and Social Distinction
This paper explores the culture of taste in the production of an urban, Hindu, Bengali middle class in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bengal/India. It analyzes how the Bengali middle class, the bhadralok, attempted to construct a "doxa" of gastronomy in order to subsume a dominant position for itself and to classify hierarchically other classes and social groups. The aspirations of this class as the future guardians of an incipient…
Imaginative geography, neoliberal globalization, and colonial distinctions
Information Technology (IT) 'outsourcing,' of which medical transcription in India is a part, has received relatively little attention from geographers. Most often, it has been bracketed more broadly within IT and its role in transforming transnational space-time configurations has been analyzed. IT outsourcing, more specifically, medical transcription outsourcing, which is the focus of this article, is not only marked by tensions, hierarchies, a…
Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broade
Sanitizing The Domestic
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was an unprecedented wave of publications on health and hygiene in Bengali. In these publications, the household, or the “domestic,” was advocated as a crucial site for the practice of health and hygiene. This article analyzes the writings of Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay, Radha Gobinda Kar, and Saratkumari Chaudhurani, three well-known writers and educators who wrote extensively on health, hygiene…
Colonialism as Civilizing Mission
Reviewed by: Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India ed. by Harald Fischer-Tine and Michael Mann Srirupa Prasad Colonialism as Civilizing Mission: Cultural Ideology in British India. Edited by Harald Fischer-Tine and Michael Mann. London: Anthem Press, 2004. Colonialism as Civilizing Mission takes a fresh look at one of the most complex yet productive “tensions”[1] that remained at the heart of colonialism—the “civil…
Trans-Status Subjects
Book Review| May 01 2005 Trans-Status Subjects: Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia Sonita Sarker and Esha Niyogi De, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002 xii + 344 pp., $22.95 (paper) Srirupa Prasad Srirupa Prasad Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (1): 259–260. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-25-1-259 Cite Icon Cite Share…
Work-Family Relations in Transnational Perspective
This article presents a transnational analysis of work-family relations. Comparing three high-tech firms in India and the United States, we find that employees in each country establish different work-family boundaries. While those in the United States tend to prefer an integration of work and family realms through permeable boundaries, employees in India more often support a separation between work and family spheres through solid boundaries. Ou…
Crisis, Identity, and Social Distinction
This paper explores the culture of taste in the production of an urban, Hindu, Bengali middle class in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Bengal/India. It analyzes how the Bengali middle class, the bhadralok, attempted to construct a "doxa" of gastronomy in order to subsume a dominant position for itself and to classify hierarchically other classes and social groups. The aspirations of this class as the future guardians of an incipient…
Reproductive Health in India
Reviewed by: Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies Srirupa Prasad Sarah Hodges, ed. Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Controversies. New Perspectives in South Asian History, no. 13. New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006. ix + 264 pp. Rs. 620.00 (81-250-2939-7). Although the topics of women and gender are recent entries in the historical scholarship on medicine in India, in a relatively short period of time they h…
Imaginative geography, neoliberal globalization, and colonial distinctions
Information Technology (IT) 'outsourcing,' of which medical transcription in India is a part, has received relatively little attention from geographers. Most often, it has been bracketed more broadly within IT and its role in transforming transnational space-time configurations has been analyzed. IT outsourcing, more specifically, medical transcription outsourcing, which is the focus of this article, is not only marked by tensions, hierarchies, a…
Conclusion
In 1894, in an article in a well-known Bengali medical journal, Chikitsa Sammilani, the author recounted a story of the goddess of cholera’s visit to a village: One night as a saint sat under a tree deep in meditation he heard a lone woman entering the village. Surprised at the sight of a woman all by herself so late at night the saint asked her who she was. The woman said that she was the goddess of cholera and that she was heading to the villag…
Imagining the Social Body
Women’s autobiographical writings — memoirs, diaries, and autobiographies — are no longer archival outliers. In the last 30 years historians and literary critics have enthusiastically embraced them as legitimate archival material. This chapter, drawing on this critical scholarship, explores the construction of an ethic of care within the autobiographical writings of three Bengali women during the first half of the twentieth century
Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890–1940
This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broade
Sanitizing The Domestic
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was an unprecedented wave of publications on health and hygiene in Bengali. In these publications, the household, or the “domestic,” was advocated as a crucial site for the practice of health and hygiene. This article analyzes the writings of Bhudeb Mukhopadhyay, Radha Gobinda Kar, and Saratkumari Chaudhurani, three well-known writers and educators who wrote extensively on health, hygiene…
Off the Record
Archives should be considered an influential space in the production, circulation and exchange of affects. Archives become a field of intersecting affects – handling of records by archivists and archive staff members, reader/researcher receiving (or not), the touching of old yellowing documents and the realisation for the reader that they are one in a long line of readers who have held and read that document. Based on my personal experiences, mem…
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