Gita Rajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3856439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gita Rajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gita |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajan |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8632-349X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Diagnoses of sexual abuse and their common registered comorbidities in the total population of Stockholm
BACKGROUND: Prior research based on self-reports has proven sexual abuse to be a risk factor for pain and psychiatric disorders. However, less is known about how this is reflected within the healthcare system. The aim of this study was to study the 2-year prevalence of diagnosis of sexual abuse and concomitant conditions. METHODS: Using data from VAL, the study population included all living persons in Stockholm County, Sweden, between 1 January …
An experiment in India
Nodes of connectivity
Ethnographies of the Popular and the Public Sphere in India
It has sometimes been supposed that, between Bollywood and cricket, nearly the entire terrain of Indian popular culture is adequately captured. No one doubts that these are the twin passions on whi
South Asian Popular Culture
New Cosmopolitanisms
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century's “new cosmopolitans”: flexible enough to adjust to globalization's economic, political, and cultural imperatives. Th…
New Cosmopolitanisms
Theorizing Recognition
Constructing‐Contesting Masculinities
Exhibiting Technology, Experiencing Culture
This essay discusses a photography exhibition titled 'India Through the Lens' curated during the Winter 2000-Spring 2001 season by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a division of the Smithsonian Institution complex in the United States, as being simultaneously oriental and modern. The event is significant because the museum's selection of photographs reiterated orientalist and colonial representations of India, but photography as a modern art form c…
Diaphaneitè” to Gaston de Latour
Pliant and Compliant
Walter Benjamin's signature hypothesis of 'dialectics at a standstill' rehearsed in his 'Theoretics of Knowledge, Theories of Progress' permits visual images to be elasticized from a then condition in history and culture to a now site of contemporary reality in order to be critiqued in their entirety. Putting this hypothesis to the test, Rajan juxtaposes two late eighteenth-century works of art by East India Company Painters with two late twentie…
Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices
Research Article| March 01 2002 Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices: Deploying Mystical Realism Gita Rajan Gita Rajan gita rajan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian Studies at Fairfield University where she teaches Victorian, Cultural, and Postcolonial Studies. She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a Paul Mellon Fellow at the Yale University Center for British Art. She coedited An Intr…
A Few Words from the Guest Editor
Conversations
Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book a…
South Asian Popular Culture
Pliant and Compliant
Walter Benjamin's signature hypothesis of 'dialectics at a standstill' rehearsed in his 'Theoretics of Knowledge, Theories of Progress' permits visual images to be elasticized from a then condition in history and culture to a now site of contemporary reality in order to be critiqued in their entirety. Putting this hypothesis to the test, Rajan juxtaposes two late eighteenth-century works of art by East India Company Painters with two late twentie…
Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices
Research Article| March 01 2002 Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices: Deploying Mystical Realism Gita Rajan Gita Rajan gita rajan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian Studies at Fairfield University where she teaches Victorian, Cultural, and Postcolonial Studies. She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a Paul Mellon Fellow at the Yale University Center for British Art. She coedited An Intr…
Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book a…
A Few Words from the Guest Editor
Conversations
Pliant and Compliant
Walter Benjamin's signature hypothesis of 'dialectics at a standstill' rehearsed in his 'Theoretics of Knowledge, Theories of Progress' permits visual images to be elasticized from a then condition in history and culture to a now site of contemporary reality in order to be critiqued in their entirety. Putting this hypothesis to the test, Rajan juxtaposes two late eighteenth-century works of art by East India Company Painters with two late twentie…
Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices
Research Article| March 01 2002 Chitra Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices: Deploying Mystical Realism Gita Rajan Gita Rajan gita rajan is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Asian Studies at Fairfield University where she teaches Victorian, Cultural, and Postcolonial Studies. She was an Andrew Mellon Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and a Paul Mellon Fellow at the Yale University Center for British Art. She coedited An Intr…
Exhibiting Technology, Experiencing Culture
This essay discusses a photography exhibition titled 'India Through the Lens' curated during the Winter 2000-Spring 2001 season by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, a division of the Smithsonian Institution complex in the United States, as being simultaneously oriental and modern. The event is significant because the museum's selection of photographs reiterated orientalist and colonial representations of India, but photography as a modern art form c…
Diaphaneitè” to Gaston de Latour
New Cosmopolitanisms
This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in which technology, travel, and globalization have altered traditional patterns of immigration for South Asians who live and work in the United States, and explains how their popular cultural practices and aesthetic desires are fulfilled. They are presented as the twenty-first century's “new cosmopolitans”: flexible enough to adjust to globalization's economic, political, and cultural imperatives. Th…
New Cosmopolitanisms
Theorizing Recognition
Constructing‐Contesting Masculinities
Ethnographies of the Popular and the Public Sphere in India
It has sometimes been supposed that, between Bollywood and cricket, nearly the entire terrain of Indian popular culture is adequately captured. No one doubts that these are the twin passions on whi
South Asian Popular Culture
Nodes of connectivity
An experiment in India
Diagnoses of sexual abuse and their common registered comorbidities in the total population of Stockholm
BACKGROUND: Prior research based on self-reports has proven sexual abuse to be a risk factor for pain and psychiatric disorders. However, less is known about how this is reflected within the healthcare system. The aim of this study was to study the 2-year prevalence of diagnosis of sexual abuse and concomitant conditions. METHODS: Using data from VAL, the study population included all living persons in Stockholm County, Sweden, between 1 January …
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