Raka Shome
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692867 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raka Shome |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raka |
| FAMILY NAME | Shome |
| SIGNATURE | SHOME R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7679-6880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 240 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism
This article critiques the US/UK centrism in cultural studies work in our field and the larger US academy. It addresses the limits of concepts in Cultural Studies that are popular in the Communication discipline when they are taken to the Global South and the Postcolonial Non-West. The article is an invitation to scholars to actively de-parochialize their research and teaching in light of dispossessions in the Global South
The long and deadly road: The covid pandemic and Indian migrants
This essay focuses on the Indian migrant crisis in the context of the state’s handling of the pandemic. It argues that the migrant situation in India pries open ‘problem spaces’ that, if attended to, reveal how many of the now normative solutions for governing and containing the virus are exceeded by bodies – of migrants in particular – that cannot be kept safe by solutions in place to check the contagion. The essay first raises questions about t…
Thinking Culture and Cultural Studies—from/of the Global South
This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the “Global South.” The essay makes a case for “going South” in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that is based on a frame of dispossession. The first section offers a historical overview of the Global South and considers where the Global South is today. The second section …
When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies
This article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that hav…
Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial studies is concerned with theorizing, analyzing, and critiquing the various logics of colonialism as they have existed in the past and continue in the present. This entry offers a discussion of postcolonial studies, marking its objectives and tracing its development. The entry then addresses how postcolonial and communication studies may have shared concerns that would advance both projects
When postcolonial studies meets media studies
This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of me…
Gender, Nation, and Colonialism: Twenty-First Century Connections
This special issue explores 21st-century articulations of gender, nation, and colonialism
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture
The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white British woman with “the people” raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the…
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture
Asian modernities: Culture, politics and media
Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect
This chapter contains sections titled: Postcolonial Disturbances Race Troubles: Troubling US Centeredness in our Racial Lenses From Other Worlds, Other Frames and Other Desires References
Post-Colonial Reflections on the ‘Internationalization’ of Cultural Studies
This essay addresses the difficult politics of ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies. In an effort to participate in ongoing conversations about, and around, ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies, this essay invites us to attend to the frames of reference that can sometimes underlie our efforts at ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies. Examining larger issues such as our frequent unexamined points of departure into the ‘international’, the geo-po…
Thinking through the diaspora: Call centers, India, and a new politics of hybridity
This article re-examines some current theoretical trends through which concepts such as diaspora and hybridity have been theorized in cultural studies in the western academy. It argues that these concepts are being rearticulated in new ways in neoliberal globalization, which has implications for rethinking the politics of race and colonialism. Through an analysis of call centers in India, this article theorizes how the cultural politics of Indian…
Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space
This article argues for the importance of a spatial perspective in critical communication studies. It suggests that a focus on spatial relations of power enables scholars of communication and culture to understand and theorize the complex ways in which identities are being reproduced in our current moment of globalization. The article suggests that, instead of theorizing cultural power only through the category of identity, we need to adopt a spa…
Culture, communication, and the challenge of globalization
This essay deals with the problematics that globalization poses for critical communication scholarship. Globalization challenges our understanding of culture and identity in ways that both open up new directions for communication scholarship and invite a rethinking of current ones. First, we discuss how difference is unsettled and re/staged in the context of globalization. Second, we address how uneven patterns of global processes are enacted thr…
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana
(2001). White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 323-342
Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies: Caught in the term “post‐colonial”: Why the “post‐colonial” still matters
(1998). Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 203-212
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View
Postcolonial theory and criticism provide rhetorical studies with an important critical and political perspective with which to engage in issues of neocolonialism and racism. This essay offers an overview of postcolonial theory and criticism, and delineates some of the implications of a postcolonial perspective for rhetorical studies by demonstrating how a postcolonial rhetorical approach pushes the traditional frontiers of the discipline in a ma…
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View
Postcolonial theory and criticism provide rhetorical studies with an important critical and political perspective with which to engage in issues of neocolonialism and racism. This essay offers an overview of postcolonial theory and criticism, and delineates some of the implications of a postcolonial perspective for rhetorical studies by demonstrating how a postcolonial rhetorical approach pushes the traditional frontiers of the discipline in a ma…
Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space
This article argues for the importance of a spatial perspective in critical communication studies. It suggests that a focus on spatial relations of power enables scholars of communication and culture to understand and theorize the complex ways in which identities are being reproduced in our current moment of globalization. The article suggests that, instead of theorizing cultural power only through the category of identity, we need to adopt a spa…
When postcolonial studies meets media studies
This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of me…
Thinking Culture and Cultural Studies—from/of the Global South
This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the “Global South.” The essay makes a case for “going South” in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that is based on a frame of dispossession. The first section offers a historical overview of the Global South and considers where the Global South is today. The second section …
When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies
This article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that hav…
White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana
(2001). White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 323-342
Thinking through the diaspora: Call centers, India, and a new politics of hybridity
This article re-examines some current theoretical trends through which concepts such as diaspora and hybridity have been theorized in cultural studies in the western academy. It argues that these concepts are being rearticulated in new ways in neoliberal globalization, which has implications for rethinking the politics of race and colonialism. Through an analysis of call centers in India, this article theorizes how the cultural politics of Indian…
Gender, Nation, and Colonialism: Twenty-First Century Connections
This special issue explores 21st-century articulations of gender, nation, and colonialism
Asian modernities: Culture, politics and media
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
Postcolonial Interventions in the Rhetorical Canon: An "Other" View
Postcolonial theory and criticism provide rhetorical studies with an important critical and political perspective with which to engage in issues of neocolonialism and racism. This essay offers an overview of postcolonial theory and criticism, and delineates some of the implications of a postcolonial perspective for rhetorical studies by demonstrating how a postcolonial rhetorical approach pushes the traditional frontiers of the discipline in a ma…
Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies: Caught in the term “post‐colonial”: Why the “post‐colonial” still matters
(1998). Postcolonial or neocolonial? Defining the grounds of research in global communication studies. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 203-212
White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana
(2001). White Femininity and the Discourse of the Nation: Re/membering Princess Diana. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 323-342
Culture, communication, and the challenge of globalization
This essay deals with the problematics that globalization poses for critical communication scholarship. Globalization challenges our understanding of culture and identity in ways that both open up new directions for communication scholarship and invite a rethinking of current ones. First, we discuss how difference is unsettled and re/staged in the context of globalization. Second, we address how uneven patterns of global processes are enacted thr…
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
Space Matters: The Power and Practice of Space
This article argues for the importance of a spatial perspective in critical communication studies. It suggests that a focus on spatial relations of power enables scholars of communication and culture to understand and theorize the complex ways in which identities are being reproduced in our current moment of globalization. The article suggests that, instead of theorizing cultural power only through the category of identity, we need to adopt a spa…
Thinking through the diaspora: Call centers, India, and a new politics of hybridity
This article re-examines some current theoretical trends through which concepts such as diaspora and hybridity have been theorized in cultural studies in the western academy. It argues that these concepts are being rearticulated in new ways in neoliberal globalization, which has implications for rethinking the politics of race and colonialism. Through an analysis of call centers in India, this article theorizes how the cultural politics of Indian…
Post-Colonial Reflections on the ‘Internationalization’ of Cultural Studies
This essay addresses the difficult politics of ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies. In an effort to participate in ongoing conversations about, and around, ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies, this essay invites us to attend to the frames of reference that can sometimes underlie our efforts at ‘internationalizing’ cultural studies. Examining larger issues such as our frequent unexamined points of departure into the ‘international’, the geo-po…
Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect
This chapter contains sections titled: Postcolonial Disturbances Race Troubles: Troubling US Centeredness in our Racial Lenses From Other Worlds, Other Frames and Other Desires References
Asian modernities: Culture, politics and media
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture
The death of Princess Diana unleashed an international outpouring of grief, love, and press attention virtually unprecedented in history. Yet the exhaustive effort to link an upper-class white British woman with “the people” raises questions. What narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the…
Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture
Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial studies is concerned with theorizing, analyzing, and critiquing the various logics of colonialism as they have existed in the past and continue in the present. This entry offers a discussion of postcolonial studies, marking its objectives and tracing its development. The entry then addresses how postcolonial and communication studies may have shared concerns that would advance both projects
When postcolonial studies meets media studies
This essay addresses (1) how postcolonial studies might inform and enrich media studies, especially as the latter is situated in the Communication discipline, and (2) how media studies may productively expand the terrain postcolonial studies, that thus far has been dominated by the fields of Literature and Comparative Literature. Focusing on, and challenging, issues such as the North Atlantic temporal logics that inform the received history of me…
Gender, Nation, and Colonialism: Twenty-First Century Connections
This special issue explores 21st-century articulations of gender, nation, and colonialism
Thinking Culture and Cultural Studies—from/of the Global South
This essay invites us to consider the need to rethink culture and some theoretical/intellectual assumptions in Cultural Studies when we bring up the issue of the “Global South.” The essay makes a case for “going South” in Cultural Studies. It advances a notion of the South that is based on a frame of dispossession. The first section offers a historical overview of the Global South and considers where the Global South is today. The second section …
When Postcolonial Studies Interrupts Media Studies
This article utilizes a postcolonial theoretical framework to challenge and unsettle the ways in which media has been historicized in media studies where the time of the North Atlantic West is taken to be an unspoken normative assumption through which we chart media’s development. Further, this article attempts to move us to the Global South by calling attention to media objects and the mediated lives that function through those objects, that hav…
The long and deadly road: The covid pandemic and Indian migrants
This essay focuses on the Indian migrant crisis in the context of the state’s handling of the pandemic. It argues that the migrant situation in India pries open ‘problem spaces’ that, if attended to, reveal how many of the now normative solutions for governing and containing the virus are exceeded by bodies – of migrants in particular – that cannot be kept safe by solutions in place to check the contagion. The essay first raises questions about t…
Whither cultural studies in (US) communication studies? The problem of parochialism
This article critiques the US/UK centrism in cultural studies work in our field and the larger US academy. It addresses the limits of concepts in Cultural Studies that are popular in the Communication discipline when they are taken to the Global South and the Postcolonial Non-West. The article is an invitation to scholars to actively de-parochialize their research and teaching in light of dispossessions in the Global South
Cleansing the Nation: India, the Hindu Modern, and Mediations of Gender
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