Arijit Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arijit Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arijit |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8624-9418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Landscapes of Hope
Historians have examined vernacular duplex homes in Milwaukee’s north side neighborhoods to write the history of the white working-class immigrants who settled this industrial metropolis during the early years of the twentieth century. African Americans moved into these neighborhoods in the later decades of the twentieth century. This paper explores how current Black residents construe the history of their neighborhood. To examine what such a his…
Making a Case for Serendipity in Architectural Fieldwork
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 29, Number 2, Fall 2022
Viewpoint
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 28, Number 2, Fall 2021
Food, place, and memory
This article explores the importance of food in the production of immigrant identity and placemaking in Chicago. The Bangladeshi fish stores located on Devon Avenue, Chicago, serve the unique culinary needs of immigrants from Bangladesh and Bengali-speaking regions of India. Based on interviews with store owners and customers and architectural analyses of these stores, this research explores how everyday engagements with food, specifically fish h…
Staged Disappointment
The Vedanta Temple of San Francisco is an eclectic specimen of architecture incorporating stylistic features from Western and Eastern traditions. The temple’s design in 1905 and renovation three years later served specific communicative functions in the context of substantial Indian immigration and appearances by Hindu preachers in North America. The article examines the building’s active role in promoting cultural contact by arguing that the lay…
Unsettled Visions
Book Review| April 01 2012 Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary. By Margo Machida. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xx + 362 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Arijit Sen Arijit Sen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic…
Architecture and world making
This article provides two ‘readings’ of the Vedanta temple of San Francisco to understand the complex process of world making by Hindu religious preachers in the USA during the first decade of the twentieth century. On the one hand is the visible world of shared meanings and practices and on the other hand is the haptic domain navigated by individuals in embodied ways. These two ways of knowing the building are intertwined; they play against each…
Creative Dissonance
This article analyzes material culture and spatial behavior of storeowners and customers in two South Asian grocery stores in Berkeley, CA in order to argue that the social construction of ethnicity is often inflected by the social and spatial circumstances of individuals and groups who interact inside these places. Order and clutter within these stores are put forth as embodied forms of spatial knowledge that influence the way individuals experi…
The Kin System as a Poverty Trap
"An institution found in many traditional societies is the extended family system (kin system), an informal system of shared rights and obligations among extended family for the purpose of mutual assistance. In predominantly non-market economies, the kin system is a valuable institution providing critical community goods and insurance services in the absence of market or public provision. But what happens when the market sector grows in the proce…
Taxation by auction
Food, place, and memory
This article explores the importance of food in the production of immigrant identity and placemaking in Chicago. The Bangladeshi fish stores located on Devon Avenue, Chicago, serve the unique culinary needs of immigrants from Bangladesh and Bengali-speaking regions of India. Based on interviews with store owners and customers and architectural analyses of these stores, this research explores how everyday engagements with food, specifically fish h…
Taxation by auction
The Kin System as a Poverty Trap
"An institution found in many traditional societies is the extended family system (kin system), an informal system of shared rights and obligations among extended family for the purpose of mutual assistance. In predominantly non-market economies, the kin system is a valuable institution providing critical community goods and insurance services in the absence of market or public provision. But what happens when the market sector grows in the proce…
Creative Dissonance
This article analyzes material culture and spatial behavior of storeowners and customers in two South Asian grocery stores in Berkeley, CA in order to argue that the social construction of ethnicity is often inflected by the social and spatial circumstances of individuals and groups who interact inside these places. Order and clutter within these stores are put forth as embodied forms of spatial knowledge that influence the way individuals experi…
Architecture and world making
This article provides two ‘readings’ of the Vedanta temple of San Francisco to understand the complex process of world making by Hindu religious preachers in the USA during the first decade of the twentieth century. On the one hand is the visible world of shared meanings and practices and on the other hand is the haptic domain navigated by individuals in embodied ways. These two ways of knowing the building are intertwined; they play against each…
Unsettled Visions
Book Review| April 01 2012 Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary Unsettled Visions: Contemporary Asian American Artists and the Social Imaginary. By Margo Machida. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xx + 362 pp. Photos, illustrations, notes, index, and bibliography. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Arijit Sen Arijit Sen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic…
Staged Disappointment
The Vedanta Temple of San Francisco is an eclectic specimen of architecture incorporating stylistic features from Western and Eastern traditions. The temple’s design in 1905 and renovation three years later served specific communicative functions in the context of substantial Indian immigration and appearances by Hindu preachers in North America. The article examines the building’s active role in promoting cultural contact by arguing that the lay…
Food, place, and memory
This article explores the importance of food in the production of immigrant identity and placemaking in Chicago. The Bangladeshi fish stores located on Devon Avenue, Chicago, serve the unique culinary needs of immigrants from Bangladesh and Bengali-speaking regions of India. Based on interviews with store owners and customers and architectural analyses of these stores, this research explores how everyday engagements with food, specifically fish h…
Viewpoint
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 28, Number 2, Fall 2021
Making a Case for Serendipity in Architectural Fieldwork
Buildings & Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum - Volume 29, Number 2, Fall 2022
Landscapes of Hope
Historians have examined vernacular duplex homes in Milwaukee’s north side neighborhoods to write the history of the white working-class immigrants who settled this industrial metropolis during the early years of the twentieth century. African Americans moved into these neighborhoods in the later decades of the twentieth century. This paper explores how current Black residents construe the history of their neighborhood. To examine what such a his…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Architecture (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Business (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works)