Sukanya Sengupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4009652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sukanya Sengupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sukanya |
| FAMILY NAME | Sengupta |
| SIGNATURE | SENGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Indiana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Five pedagogical strategies to address challenges in teaching “Women in Islam”
This article is a reflection of the author’s experiences teaching a course titled ‘Women In Islam’ [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The article refers to the following five teaching strategies: Thinking through History, The Lived Realities …
Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri as Text/Image Activism and Cli-Fi
Using an ecocritical approach and discussing the theory of the graphic novel as it relates to Indian writing in English, this paper argues that In All Quiet in Vikaspuri Sarnath Banerjee blends the cli-fi genre with the medium of the graphic novel to illustrate “slow violence” that is perpetrated on nature in the name of vikas or progress. Through his text/image activism, Banerjee depicts India’s water wars at the community level, a corrupt polit…
Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru
In Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru, protagonist Ram Chakravarti migrates from India to America with the hopes of becoming a writer. However, in America he is seen as a representative of Hindu India. Capitalising on the frenzy surrounding American Transcendentalist version of Hinduism and Tantra, Ram becomes guru ‘Chukker’. He ‘cures’ disciples with sex therapy, wins the Nobel peace prize, and eventually becomes the president of America. Examinin…
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
Constructing Hindu Religioscapes: Guruism and Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
This project draws attention to the modern phenomenon of Guruism. I demonstrate that gurus in South Asian fiction are no longer adopting Guruism for the purposes of religion alone. In the novels I analyze, gurus use religion as a tool to resist dominant power structures, to strengthen/protect themselves in communities that stereotype, to access social/financial mobility and to obtain political power. The actions of these religious leaders have bo…
Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of International HRM
In this article we argue that International HRM research will benefit from an extended research agenda that moves: i) beyond the enterprise, ii) beyond managerialism, and iii) beyond universalism. This will require both a wider range of theoretical resources to be brought to bear and a greater attentiveness to the interpenetrating levels of the empirical worlds that are subject to evaluation and explanation. The article reflects on the opportunit…
In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami
(2009). In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 142-166
The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Work Identities in “Good” and “Bad” Jobs in the United Kingdom
Much debate exists about postbureaucratic organizational forms that are sometimes felt to strengthen the polarization between good and bad jobs. Small firms provide one test in that they lack bureaucracy. Such firms from two contrasting sectors, food manufacture and the media, are used to assess, respectively, the models of good and bad jobs. Data from 66 firms and 203 employees show a mixed picture: Food jobs are bad for pay but relatively good …
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
When and why is small beautiful? The experience of work in the small firm
Small firms account for a substantial proportion of employment in advanced economies; yet understanding of the quality of jobs in them remains poor. Studies using national-level data find that indicators such as autonomy are high but find it hard to say why. Analyses within small firms stress the structuring of jobs and not size as such. Data from 384 employees in small firms from three contrasting sectors are used to test three hypotheses. 1) Th…
The Structuringof Working Relationships in Small Firms: Towards a Formal Framework
Small firms operating in competitive conditions are often assumed to follow the dictates of the market. Existing institutionalist research shows that they are in fact embedded in networks and thus shaped by social institutions. It does not, however, show how different types of firm are embedded in different ways. A formal framework is thus developed, setting out the external context and internal resources that shape small firms’ behaviour. The fr…
The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Work Identities in “Good” and “Bad” Jobs in the United Kingdom
Much debate exists about postbureaucratic organizational forms that are sometimes felt to strengthen the polarization between good and bad jobs. Small firms provide one test in that they lack bureaucracy. Such firms from two contrasting sectors, food manufacture and the media, are used to assess, respectively, the models of good and bad jobs. Data from 66 firms and 203 employees show a mixed picture: Food jobs are bad for pay but relatively good …
When and why is small beautiful? The experience of work in the small firm
Small firms account for a substantial proportion of employment in advanced economies; yet understanding of the quality of jobs in them remains poor. Studies using national-level data find that indicators such as autonomy are high but find it hard to say why. Analyses within small firms stress the structuring of jobs and not size as such. Data from 384 employees in small firms from three contrasting sectors are used to test three hypotheses. 1) Th…
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of International HRM
In this article we argue that International HRM research will benefit from an extended research agenda that moves: i) beyond the enterprise, ii) beyond managerialism, and iii) beyond universalism. This will require both a wider range of theoretical resources to be brought to bear and a greater attentiveness to the interpenetrating levels of the empirical worlds that are subject to evaluation and explanation. The article reflects on the opportunit…
The Structuringof Working Relationships in Small Firms: Towards a Formal Framework
Small firms operating in competitive conditions are often assumed to follow the dictates of the market. Existing institutionalist research shows that they are in fact embedded in networks and thus shaped by social institutions. It does not, however, show how different types of firm are embedded in different ways. A formal framework is thus developed, setting out the external context and internal resources that shape small firms’ behaviour. The fr…
When and why is small beautiful? The experience of work in the small firm
Small firms account for a substantial proportion of employment in advanced economies; yet understanding of the quality of jobs in them remains poor. Studies using national-level data find that indicators such as autonomy are high but find it hard to say why. Analyses within small firms stress the structuring of jobs and not size as such. Data from 384 employees in small firms from three contrasting sectors are used to test three hypotheses. 1) Th…
Human Relations special issue call for papers: Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of international HRM
In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami
(2009). In search of a Doped “Destiny”: Hinduism & Guyana in Cyril Dabydeen's The Wizard Swami. South Asian Review: Vol. 30, 'Theorizing Religion in a Postmodern Context'. Guest Edited by John Hawley, pp. 142-166
The Good, the Bad, and the Ordinary: Work Identities in “Good” and “Bad” Jobs in the United Kingdom
Much debate exists about postbureaucratic organizational forms that are sometimes felt to strengthen the polarization between good and bad jobs. Small firms provide one test in that they lack bureaucracy. Such firms from two contrasting sectors, food manufacture and the media, are used to assess, respectively, the models of good and bad jobs. Data from 66 firms and 203 employees show a mixed picture: Food jobs are bad for pay but relatively good …
Constructing Hindu Religioscapes: Guruism and Identity in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
This project draws attention to the modern phenomenon of Guruism. I demonstrate that gurus in South Asian fiction are no longer adopting Guruism for the purposes of religion alone. In the novels I analyze, gurus use religion as a tool to resist dominant power structures, to strengthen/protect themselves in communities that stereotype, to access social/financial mobility and to obtain political power. The actions of these religious leaders have bo…
Beyond the enterprise: Broadening the horizons of International HRM
In this article we argue that International HRM research will benefit from an extended research agenda that moves: i) beyond the enterprise, ii) beyond managerialism, and iii) beyond universalism. This will require both a wider range of theoretical resources to be brought to bear and a greater attentiveness to the interpenetrating levels of the empirical worlds that are subject to evaluation and explanation. The article reflects on the opportunit…
Kahaani , Gulaab Gang and Queen: Remaking the queens of Bollywood
Bollywood’s depiction of its female characters tends to be regressive. Recently, however, movies like Kahaani (2012), Queen (2014) and Gulaab Gang (2014) depict a limited presence of male characters or no male protagonist, thus focusing all attention on the female character and its development. Examining the construction/depiction of the Indian woman free from a validating male presence, this paper discusses the new trend in Bollywood post-2010 a…
Tantric Hinduism and ‘Kinky America’ in Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru
In Sasthi Brata’s The Sensuous Guru, protagonist Ram Chakravarti migrates from India to America with the hopes of becoming a writer. However, in America he is seen as a representative of Hindu India. Capitalising on the frenzy surrounding American Transcendentalist version of Hinduism and Tantra, Ram becomes guru ‘Chukker’. He ‘cures’ disciples with sex therapy, wins the Nobel peace prize, and eventually becomes the president of America. Examinin…
Sarnath Banerjee’s All Quiet in Vikaspuri as Text/Image Activism and Cli-Fi
Using an ecocritical approach and discussing the theory of the graphic novel as it relates to Indian writing in English, this paper argues that In All Quiet in Vikaspuri Sarnath Banerjee blends the cli-fi genre with the medium of the graphic novel to illustrate “slow violence” that is perpetrated on nature in the name of vikas or progress. Through his text/image activism, Banerjee depicts India’s water wars at the community level, a corrupt polit…
Five pedagogical strategies to address challenges in teaching “Women in Islam”
This article is a reflection of the author’s experiences teaching a course titled ‘Women In Islam’ [WIS] in an English Department at a medium, public, Masters granting, Liberal Arts university in the Midwestern United States. This paper argues for the importance of teaching WIS through a multi-genre, interdisciplinary, and global approach. The article refers to the following five teaching strategies: Thinking through History, The Lived Realities …
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