Jisha Menon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3741993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jisha Menon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jisha |
| FAMILY NAME | Menon |
| SIGNATURE | MENON J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Confessional Performance: Remorse and the Affective Economy of Parole
Taking the popular podcast series Violation as its point of departure, this article examines the dramaturgy within the parole system, its affective politics, and its performative speech acts to consider its role in the perpetuation of mass incarceration in the United States. By training an eye on the affective economy of parole hearings, this article explores the retributive turn in the criminal legal process in the wake of neoliberal economic re…
Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmo-Politics of the Call-Center Industry
This article considers dramatic performances of cosmopolitan encounters within the transnational framework of the call-center industry in India. Have the virtual intimacies generated by new media and market technologies ushered in a cosmopolitan connectivity? What utopic gestures do we glimpse from portrayals of cross-cultural contact in the age of the copy? By considering the intersection of consumer fantasy, global capital, and the neoliberal s…
Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism
This article explores the political and performative shift in representations of same-sex desire within the context of neoliberal urbanism in Bengaluru, India. The affective shift from labile sexual practices to defiant assertions of sexual identity over the past two decades warrants a conjunctural analysis that tracks the intersections between neoliberal cultures of consumption and liberal rhetorics of equal rights and freedom of choice. Focusin…
Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict
Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947 (review)
Reviewed by: Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947 Jisha Menon Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947. By Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005; pp. 490. $49.95 cloth. Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker's Theatres of Independence constitutes the first major study of post-independence urban Indian theatre and demonstrates her prodigious…
Rehearsing the Partition: Gendered Violence in aur Kitne Tukde
This article argues that the specifically sexual nature of the political violence of the 1947 Partition of British India installs women's bodies as unambiguously sexed and ethnic. Through an analysis of Kirti Jain's 2001 theatre production of Aur Kitne Tukde (How Many Fragments?), I consider how Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs appropriate colonialist and nationalist ideologies surrounding the notion of 'woman' as repository of cultural value. The women…
Rehearsing the Partition: Gendered Violence in aur Kitne Tukde
This article argues that the specifically sexual nature of the political violence of the 1947 Partition of British India installs women's bodies as unambiguously sexed and ethnic. Through an analysis of Kirti Jain's 2001 theatre production of Aur Kitne Tukde (How Many Fragments?), I consider how Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs appropriate colonialist and nationalist ideologies surrounding the notion of 'woman' as repository of cultural value. The women…
Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism
This article explores the political and performative shift in representations of same-sex desire within the context of neoliberal urbanism in Bengaluru, India. The affective shift from labile sexual practices to defiant assertions of sexual identity over the past two decades warrants a conjunctural analysis that tracks the intersections between neoliberal cultures of consumption and liberal rhetorics of equal rights and freedom of choice. Focusin…
Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947 (review)
Reviewed by: Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947 Jisha Menon Theatres of Independence: Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947. By Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2005; pp. 490. $49.95 cloth. Aparna Bhargava Dharwadker's Theatres of Independence constitutes the first major study of post-independence urban Indian theatre and demonstrates her prodigious…
Rehearsing the Partition: Gendered Violence in aur Kitne Tukde
This article argues that the specifically sexual nature of the political violence of the 1947 Partition of British India installs women's bodies as unambiguously sexed and ethnic. Through an analysis of Kirti Jain's 2001 theatre production of Aur Kitne Tukde (How Many Fragments?), I consider how Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs appropriate colonialist and nationalist ideologies surrounding the notion of 'woman' as repository of cultural value. The women…
Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict
Calling Local/Talking Global: The Cosmo-Politics of the Call-Center Industry
This article considers dramatic performances of cosmopolitan encounters within the transnational framework of the call-center industry in India. Have the virtual intimacies generated by new media and market technologies ushered in a cosmopolitan connectivity? What utopic gestures do we glimpse from portrayals of cross-cultural contact in the age of the copy? By considering the intersection of consumer fantasy, global capital, and the neoliberal s…
Queer Selfhoods in the Shadow of Neoliberal Urbanism
This article explores the political and performative shift in representations of same-sex desire within the context of neoliberal urbanism in Bengaluru, India. The affective shift from labile sexual practices to defiant assertions of sexual identity over the past two decades warrants a conjunctural analysis that tracks the intersections between neoliberal cultures of consumption and liberal rhetorics of equal rights and freedom of choice. Focusin…
Confessional Performance: Remorse and the Affective Economy of Parole
Taking the popular podcast series Violation as its point of departure, this article examines the dramaturgy within the parole system, its affective politics, and its performative speech acts to consider its role in the perpetuation of mass incarceration in the United States. By training an eye on the affective economy of parole hearings, this article explores the retributive turn in the criminal legal process in the wake of neoliberal economic re…
Art (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)