Sankaran Krishna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3881002 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sankaran Krishna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sankaran |
| FAMILY NAME | Krishna |
| SIGNATURE | KRISHNA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 277 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
On the pitfalls of geo-cultural pluralism in IR
Politics in the Time of Covid
How does colonialism work
This chapter focuses on the history and impact of colonialism as the main reason for the contemporary divide between first and third worlds – and suggests that many of the proposed explanations are underlain by this more fundamental cause. The East India Company’s monopoly over the lucrative trade with India made it a growing power within England. Yet it was kept in restraint for at least two reasons. First, strange as it may sound to a reader in…
Manhunt Presidency
President Obama’s commitment to a creedal narrative of American exceptionalism and his understanding of the Third World as a space of ontological deficit together made for a presidency that could neither mitigate the structural racism of the United States nor deflect a racist foreign policy premised on an unending war against terror. By examining the murders of two American teenagers – Trayvon Martin and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki – this essay argues …
China is China, Not the Non-West
David Kang’s explanation for the peace and stability in East Asia that continued from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries positions itself against mainstream understandings of world order in the field of International Relations, which derive exclusively from the experience of the West. However, Kang’s own explanations and theories remain worryingly Eurocentric and are profoundly mimetic of the very approaches he seeks to go beyond. The implica…
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Destitution
A powerful new wave of alienating land from those who live on it is sweeping the global commons, and discourses such as “Emerging Economies” and “Brazil, Russia, India, China” are the ideological mediators of this wave. In India, the “slow violence” of the Nehruvian decades has been replaced by the accelerated pace of such processes under a neoliberal dispensation. In both periods, the overwhelming costs of “development” have been preponderantly …
Notes on the Dramatic Career of a Concept
The global middle class is frequently seen as a guarantor of democracy and its consumerism the basis for the next wave of growth in the world economy. This article questions both premises and suggests that middle classes are frequently the creation of state projects based on selective inclusions and exclusions, and their desired futures constitute a real threat to planetary sustainability at this point in time
Queering the pitch
Recent cricket contests between Australia and India offer a fascinating theatre to examine issues of race, class, nation, and gender. I chart their protean character as they are performed and deployed in these encounters. Instead of exploring relations between already extant and singular entities called “India” or “Australia,” it might be more useful to see the performative practices of those situated at different loci of enunciation by which tho…
Race and Racism in International Relations
Producing Sri Lanka From Ceylon
Migrant Acts
Migrant Acts: Deterritorializing Postcoloniality Sankaran Krishna (bio) Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes, Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity: The Return of the Native(New York: Routledge, 2008), viii + 178. "We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization". – Sherman Alexie, New York Times, Oct 21, 2009. One way of coming to grips with Jorge Fer…
Yearning for an Impossible Elsewhere
Partition
A couple of years after the Partition of the country, it occurred to the respective governments of India and Pakistan that inmates of lunatic asylums, like prisoners, should also be exchanged. Muslim lunatics in India should be transferred to Pakistan and Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistani asylums should be sent to India
Methodical Worlds
Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, was the bastard offspring of a one-shot encounter between a departing Britisher, William Methwold (last of a line of angrezi robber barons), and Vanita, wife of a poor Maharashtrian accordionist--a proletarian Mumbaikar given to singing maudlin Broadway hits in the homes of the rich to earn his supper. seductive allure of Methwold rose largely from the clean-cut parting that r…
A Comportment for our Times
Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 4, 2001
The U.S. Response as Armed Struggle
Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 4, 2001
Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations
Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? Richard Wright This article argues that the discipline of international relations was and is predicated on a systematic politics of forgetting, a willful amnesia, on the question of race. Historically, the emergence of a …
Postcolonial Insecurities
Producing Sri Lanka
The Global Economy as Political Space
The authors reach beyond mainstream, economistic approaches to explore the social, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of the shift from a nation-state-based to a global political economy
Cartographic Anxiety
The parliamentary elections of May 1991 in India were disrupted by the assassination of the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. In the aftermath of this event, one of the ubiquitous election posters of the Congress (I) party showed a picture of Rajiv Gandhi's identity card.1 On the identity card, the space allocated for designation of religion was filled by the word Indian. The not-so-subtle implication was that the slain leader had, in his life…
The Importance of Being Ironic
In oppositions such as meaning/form, soul/body, intuition/ expression, literal/metaphorical, nature/culture, intelligible/ sensible, positive/negative, transcendental/empirical, serious/ nonserious, the superior term belongs to the logos and is a higher presence; the inferior term marks a fall. Logocentrism thus assumes the priority of the first term and conceives the second in relation to it, as a complication, a negation, a manifestation, a dis…
Oppressive pasts and desired futures
Cartographic Anxiety
The parliamentary elections of May 1991 in India were disrupted by the assassination of the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. In the aftermath of this event, one of the ubiquitous election posters of the Congress (I) party showed a picture of Rajiv Gandhi's identity card.1 On the identity card, the space allocated for designation of religion was filled by the word Indian. The not-so-subtle implication was that the slain leader had, in his life…
Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations
Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? Richard Wright This article argues that the discipline of international relations was and is predicated on a systematic politics of forgetting, a willful amnesia, on the question of race. Historically, the emergence of a …
The Importance of Being Ironic
In oppositions such as meaning/form, soul/body, intuition/ expression, literal/metaphorical, nature/culture, intelligible/ sensible, positive/negative, transcendental/empirical, serious/ nonserious, the superior term belongs to the logos and is a higher presence; the inferior term marks a fall. Logocentrism thus assumes the priority of the first term and conceives the second in relation to it, as a complication, a negation, a manifestation, a dis…
Politics in the Time of Covid
Oppressive pasts and desired futures
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Destitution
A powerful new wave of alienating land from those who live on it is sweeping the global commons, and discourses such as “Emerging Economies” and “Brazil, Russia, India, China” are the ideological mediators of this wave. In India, the “slow violence” of the Nehruvian decades has been replaced by the accelerated pace of such processes under a neoliberal dispensation. In both periods, the overwhelming costs of “development” have been preponderantly …
Notes on the Dramatic Career of a Concept
The global middle class is frequently seen as a guarantor of democracy and its consumerism the basis for the next wave of growth in the world economy. This article questions both premises and suggests that middle classes are frequently the creation of state projects based on selective inclusions and exclusions, and their desired futures constitute a real threat to planetary sustainability at this point in time
Queering the pitch
Recent cricket contests between Australia and India offer a fascinating theatre to examine issues of race, class, nation, and gender. I chart their protean character as they are performed and deployed in these encounters. Instead of exploring relations between already extant and singular entities called “India” or “Australia,” it might be more useful to see the performative practices of those situated at different loci of enunciation by which tho…
Methodical Worlds
Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, was the bastard offspring of a one-shot encounter between a departing Britisher, William Methwold (last of a line of angrezi robber barons), and Vanita, wife of a poor Maharashtrian accordionist--a proletarian Mumbaikar given to singing maudlin Broadway hits in the homes of the rich to earn his supper. seductive allure of Methwold rose largely from the clean-cut parting that r…
Producing Sri Lanka
Oppressive pasts and desired futures
The Importance of Being Ironic
In oppositions such as meaning/form, soul/body, intuition/ expression, literal/metaphorical, nature/culture, intelligible/ sensible, positive/negative, transcendental/empirical, serious/ nonserious, the superior term belongs to the logos and is a higher presence; the inferior term marks a fall. Logocentrism thus assumes the priority of the first term and conceives the second in relation to it, as a complication, a negation, a manifestation, a dis…
The Global Economy as Political Space
The authors reach beyond mainstream, economistic approaches to explore the social, political, philosophical, and cultural dimensions of the shift from a nation-state-based to a global political economy
Cartographic Anxiety
The parliamentary elections of May 1991 in India were disrupted by the assassination of the former prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi. In the aftermath of this event, one of the ubiquitous election posters of the Congress (I) party showed a picture of Rajiv Gandhi's identity card.1 On the identity card, the space allocated for designation of religion was filled by the word Indian. The not-so-subtle implication was that the slain leader had, in his life…
Producing Sri Lanka
Postcolonial Insecurities
A Comportment for our Times
Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 4, 2001
The U.S. Response as Armed Struggle
Theory & Event - Volume 5, Issue 4, 2001
Race, Amnesia, and the Education of International Relations
Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? Richard Wright This article argues that the discipline of international relations was and is predicated on a systematic politics of forgetting, a willful amnesia, on the question of race. Historically, the emergence of a …
Partition
A couple of years after the Partition of the country, it occurred to the respective governments of India and Pakistan that inmates of lunatic asylums, like prisoners, should also be exchanged. Muslim lunatics in India should be transferred to Pakistan and Hindu and Sikh lunatics in Pakistani asylums should be sent to India
Methodical Worlds
Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, was the bastard offspring of a one-shot encounter between a departing Britisher, William Methwold (last of a line of angrezi robber barons), and Vanita, wife of a poor Maharashtrian accordionist--a proletarian Mumbaikar given to singing maudlin Broadway hits in the homes of the rich to earn his supper. seductive allure of Methwold rose largely from the clean-cut parting that r…
Yearning for an Impossible Elsewhere
Migrant Acts
Migrant Acts: Deterritorializing Postcoloniality Sankaran Krishna (bio) Jorge Luis Andrade Fernandes, Challenging Euro-America's Politics of Identity: The Return of the Native(New York: Routledge, 2008), viii + 178. "We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization". – Sherman Alexie, New York Times, Oct 21, 2009. One way of coming to grips with Jorge Fer…
Producing Sri Lanka From Ceylon
Race and Racism in International Relations
Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Destitution
A powerful new wave of alienating land from those who live on it is sweeping the global commons, and discourses such as “Emerging Economies” and “Brazil, Russia, India, China” are the ideological mediators of this wave. In India, the “slow violence” of the Nehruvian decades has been replaced by the accelerated pace of such processes under a neoliberal dispensation. In both periods, the overwhelming costs of “development” have been preponderantly …
Notes on the Dramatic Career of a Concept
The global middle class is frequently seen as a guarantor of democracy and its consumerism the basis for the next wave of growth in the world economy. This article questions both premises and suggests that middle classes are frequently the creation of state projects based on selective inclusions and exclusions, and their desired futures constitute a real threat to planetary sustainability at this point in time
Queering the pitch
Recent cricket contests between Australia and India offer a fascinating theatre to examine issues of race, class, nation, and gender. I chart their protean character as they are performed and deployed in these encounters. Instead of exploring relations between already extant and singular entities called “India” or “Australia,” it might be more useful to see the performative practices of those situated at different loci of enunciation by which tho…
China is China, Not the Non-West
David Kang’s explanation for the peace and stability in East Asia that continued from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries positions itself against mainstream understandings of world order in the field of International Relations, which derive exclusively from the experience of the West. However, Kang’s own explanations and theories remain worryingly Eurocentric and are profoundly mimetic of the very approaches he seeks to go beyond. The implica…
How does colonialism work
This chapter focuses on the history and impact of colonialism as the main reason for the contemporary divide between first and third worlds – and suggests that many of the proposed explanations are underlain by this more fundamental cause. The East India Company’s monopoly over the lucrative trade with India made it a growing power within England. Yet it was kept in restraint for at least two reasons. First, strange as it may sound to a reader in…
Manhunt Presidency
President Obama’s commitment to a creedal narrative of American exceptionalism and his understanding of the Third World as a space of ontological deficit together made for a presidency that could neither mitigate the structural racism of the United States nor deflect a racist foreign policy premised on an unending war against terror. By examining the murders of two American teenagers – Trayvon Martin and Abdulrahman Al-Awlaki – this essay argues …
On the pitfalls of geo-cultural pluralism in IR
Politics in the Time of Covid
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