Kumarini Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kumarini Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kumarini |
| FAMILY NAME | Silva |
| SIGNATURE | SILVA K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Techno-Pastorality in the new “Golden Age”
Politics of containment: Disruptions and interventions
In this essay I consider three interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, to consider and unpack its potential use beyond the critique of comfort feminism itself. First, I approach comfort feminism as always intimately implicated in additional affective labor for non-white bodies. I then identify these non-white bodies as geo-bodies: geographically produced subjects/objects. It is a body that is always produced as a disruption to, or an impingemen…
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege
Moving between the 2015 elections, Covid-19 and the sustained social justice protests in the United States in this essay, I question where and how the pursuit of joy, remedies for boredom and practices of self-care relate to the necropolitical social hierarchies in the United States. In spite of popular declarations that the virus is 'the great equalizer', there is considerable evidence that Covid-19 devastates along established systems of power,…
Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
The study of migration within geography takes a variety of forms.While geographers traditionally studied push and pull factors in migration, this approach was challenged for its reliance on quantitative methods and its emphasis on economic factors.New approaches to the study of migration in geography have thus incorporated qualitative techniques and focused on migrant identities and migrant subjectivities.They have also provided new theorizations…
Cruel intentions: Affect theory in the age of Trump
Following the work of scholars like Sarah Ahmed,1 Lauren Berlant,2 and Ann Stoler,3 who have theorized affect as an essential component of social and political life, this special commentary section
Having the time of our lives: Love-cruelty as patriotic impulse
Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
Brown Threat makes a critical intervention in U.S based race studies. The book positions a category of ‘brown’ identification (along side identity) as a form of organizing race and racialized hierarchies in contemporary culture, especially in the wake of September 11. Here, brown is seen as both a product of historical xenophobia and slavery in the United States, and as a newer form of ongoing racism tied to notions of security and securitization…
Keeping It Real in the Global South: Hip-Hop Comes to Sri Lanka
This article attempts to understand how hip-hop, as a uniquely black American articulation of marginalization and resistance, becomes a complex symbol of global belonging and post-colonial resistance in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan hip-hop artists have established distinctive rap cultures, borrowing from their own local culture, as well as from US hip hop cultural practices in general. From more locally popular hip hop artists like Krishan, to internati…
Brown: From identity to identification
Global nationalisms, pastoral identities: Association for India's Development (AID) negotiates transnational activism
Acknowledging that AID's work is influential – and that it has a large following within the diasporic and expatriate community in the United States and India – this essay shows how the language and practice of ‘giving back’ under a rubric of liberal multiculturalism and humanism is still deeply steeped in neoliberal discourses and practices that make assumptions about power, individual agency, and privacy. Classified as a country with ‘soft curre…
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour, and Feminism
Commentary and Criticism: Representations of Sex Workers
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour and Feminism, Part Two
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Commentary and Criticism: Media Artists and Feminist Performance
In a 2007 article in the Washington Post, titled “Feminism and Art,” Blake Gopnik noted that Feminism can be thought of as the crucial movement of the recent past because it could act as an umbrell
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Commentary and criticism: Women, Migration and the Media
In an increasingly globalized world, the movement of bodies from geographical location to location occupies a great deal of our popular imagination, as well as our socio-political and economic live
Commentary and criticism: Girls, Boys, and “Girlhood” Studies
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Labor, Media, and the Economy
In light of the current global economic crisis, where labor, government policies, consumer spending, and jobs are the subject of intense media focus and debate, we felt it was a good time to examin
Oh, give me a home: Diasporic Longings of Home and Belonging
The conversations surrounding an ephemeral home – left behind decades ago or perhaps never even visited – always and continually begs the question: why? Why do we constantly talk about geographies to which we have little or no connection with such nostalgia and fervor? Why do immigrants pick a distant space and mark that territory as home, even as we settle into the spaces we presently occupy and slowly begin the journey toward some form of assim…
The Collected Sonnets of Charles (Tennyson) Turner
Sonnets - from sonnets and fugitive pieces, 1830 sonnets, 1864 small tableaux, 1868 from sonnets, lyrics and translations, 1873 posthumously published sonnets notes.
Oh, give me a home: Diasporic Longings of Home and Belonging
The conversations surrounding an ephemeral home – left behind decades ago or perhaps never even visited – always and continually begs the question: why? Why do we constantly talk about geographies to which we have little or no connection with such nostalgia and fervor? Why do immigrants pick a distant space and mark that territory as home, even as we settle into the spaces we presently occupy and slowly begin the journey toward some form of assim…
Having the time of our lives: Love-cruelty as patriotic impulse
Commentary and criticism: Women, Migration and the Media
In an increasingly globalized world, the movement of bodies from geographical location to location occupies a great deal of our popular imagination, as well as our socio-political and economic live
Commentary and Criticism: Representations of Sex Workers
Techno-Pastorality in the new “Golden Age”
Politics of containment: Disruptions and interventions
In this essay I consider three interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, to consider and unpack its potential use beyond the critique of comfort feminism itself. First, I approach comfort feminism as always intimately implicated in additional affective labor for non-white bodies. I then identify these non-white bodies as geo-bodies: geographically produced subjects/objects. It is a body that is always produced as a disruption to, or an impingemen…
Keeping It Real in the Global South: Hip-Hop Comes to Sri Lanka
This article attempts to understand how hip-hop, as a uniquely black American articulation of marginalization and resistance, becomes a complex symbol of global belonging and post-colonial resistance in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan hip-hop artists have established distinctive rap cultures, borrowing from their own local culture, as well as from US hip hop cultural practices in general. From more locally popular hip hop artists like Krishan, to internati…
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Commentary and criticism: Girls, Boys, and “Girlhood” Studies
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Labor, Media, and the Economy
In light of the current global economic crisis, where labor, government policies, consumer spending, and jobs are the subject of intense media focus and debate, we felt it was a good time to examin
The Collected Sonnets of Charles (Tennyson) Turner
Sonnets - from sonnets and fugitive pieces, 1830 sonnets, 1864 small tableaux, 1868 from sonnets, lyrics and translations, 1873 posthumously published sonnets notes.
Commentary and Criticism: Sex Workers in the News
Commentary and criticism: Women, Migration and the Media
In an increasingly globalized world, the movement of bodies from geographical location to location occupies a great deal of our popular imagination, as well as our socio-political and economic live
Commentary and criticism: Girls, Boys, and “Girlhood” Studies
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Labor, Media, and the Economy
In light of the current global economic crisis, where labor, government policies, consumer spending, and jobs are the subject of intense media focus and debate, we felt it was a good time to examin
Oh, give me a home: Diasporic Longings of Home and Belonging
The conversations surrounding an ephemeral home – left behind decades ago or perhaps never even visited – always and continually begs the question: why? Why do we constantly talk about geographies to which we have little or no connection with such nostalgia and fervor? Why do immigrants pick a distant space and mark that territory as home, even as we settle into the spaces we presently occupy and slowly begin the journey toward some form of assim…
Brown: From identity to identification
Global nationalisms, pastoral identities: Association for India's Development (AID) negotiates transnational activism
Acknowledging that AID's work is influential – and that it has a large following within the diasporic and expatriate community in the United States and India – this essay shows how the language and practice of ‘giving back’ under a rubric of liberal multiculturalism and humanism is still deeply steeped in neoliberal discourses and practices that make assumptions about power, individual agency, and privacy. Classified as a country with ‘soft curre…
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour, and Feminism
Commentary and Criticism: Representations of Sex Workers
Commentary and Criticism: Women, Humour and Feminism, Part Two
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Commentary and Criticism: Media Artists and Feminist Performance
In a 2007 article in the Washington Post, titled “Feminism and Art,” Blake Gopnik noted that Feminism can be thought of as the crucial movement of the recent past because it could act as an umbrell
Keeping It Real in the Global South: Hip-Hop Comes to Sri Lanka
This article attempts to understand how hip-hop, as a uniquely black American articulation of marginalization and resistance, becomes a complex symbol of global belonging and post-colonial resistance in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan hip-hop artists have established distinctive rap cultures, borrowing from their own local culture, as well as from US hip hop cultural practices in general. From more locally popular hip hop artists like Krishan, to internati…
Brown Threat: Identification in the Security State
Brown Threat makes a critical intervention in U.S based race studies. The book positions a category of ‘brown’ identification (along side identity) as a form of organizing race and racialized hierarchies in contemporary culture, especially in the wake of September 11. Here, brown is seen as both a product of historical xenophobia and slavery in the United States, and as a newer form of ongoing racism tied to notions of security and securitization…
Cruel intentions: Affect theory in the age of Trump
Following the work of scholars like Sarah Ahmed,1 Lauren Berlant,2 and Ann Stoler,3 who have theorized affect as an essential component of social and political life, this special commentary section
Having the time of our lives: Love-cruelty as patriotic impulse
Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
The study of migration within geography takes a variety of forms.While geographers traditionally studied push and pull factors in migration, this approach was challenged for its reliance on quantitative methods and its emphasis on economic factors.New approaches to the study of migration in geography have thus incorporated qualitative techniques and focused on migrant identities and migrant subjectivities.They have also provided new theorizations…
Covid-19 and the mundane practices of privilege
Moving between the 2015 elections, Covid-19 and the sustained social justice protests in the United States in this essay, I question where and how the pursuit of joy, remedies for boredom and practices of self-care relate to the necropolitical social hierarchies in the United States. In spite of popular declarations that the virus is 'the great equalizer', there is considerable evidence that Covid-19 devastates along established systems of power,…
Politics of containment: Disruptions and interventions
In this essay I consider three interrelated aspects of comfort feminism, to consider and unpack its potential use beyond the critique of comfort feminism itself. First, I approach comfort feminism as always intimately implicated in additional affective labor for non-white bodies. I then identify these non-white bodies as geo-bodies: geographically produced subjects/objects. It is a body that is always produced as a disruption to, or an impingemen…
Techno-Pastorality in the new “Golden Age”
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