Santhosh Chandrashekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078654 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Santhosh Chandrashekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Santhosh |
| FAMILY NAME | Chandrashekar |
| SIGNATURE | CHANDRASHEKAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6192-2477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Terror
Indian or south Indian? The casteist roots of northern hegemony
This paper argues that brahmanical conceptions of India centered on Aryavarta and structured by casteist logics undergirds the hegemony of north India by provincializing the south and its lowered-caste inhabitants. I term this phenomenon northernism, which renders the idea of India as synonymous with a brahminized rendering of north India. Drawing from Jyoti Nisha’s elaboration of Bahujan spectatorship, I develop Dravidian spectatorship as a meth…
The “One Percent”
Through an analysis of the indie movie For Here or To Go? this essay argues that the rhetoric of “unfairness” articulated by Indian tech workers not only elides privileges, but also increasingly relies on the figure of the illegal immigrant to perform injury and to shore up claims of desirability and inclusion. Although constructed using juridical-legal logics of legality/illegality, the illegal immigrant mirrors racial, gender, and other anxieti…
Not a Metaphor
This essay argues that if 'decolonization in the settler colonial context must involve the repatriation of (Native) land'(p. 7), then autoethnography committed to decolonization should first and foremost center Native struggles over land and life. For this task and given my own position as a postcolonial immigrant on Native lands, I elaborate an immigrant of color autoethnography to demystify the discourses that privilege select postcolonial immi…
Engendering threat in the guise of protection
On August 5, 2012, self-avowed white supremacist Wade Michael Page gunned down six Sikh worshipers at a Gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before turning the gun on himself. The coverage of the shooting in select media outlets mostly blamed Wade’s obsession with white supremacist hate music and his troubled childhood for the fatal shooting spree. Alternately, I argue that other, neglected factors also converged to produce the conditions that resu…
Queer Activism in India
Not a Metaphor
This essay argues that if 'decolonization in the settler colonial context must involve the repatriation of (Native) land'(p. 7), then autoethnography committed to decolonization should first and foremost center Native struggles over land and life. For this task and given my own position as a postcolonial immigrant on Native lands, I elaborate an immigrant of color autoethnography to demystify the discourses that privilege select postcolonial immi…
Indian or south Indian? The casteist roots of northern hegemony
This paper argues that brahmanical conceptions of India centered on Aryavarta and structured by casteist logics undergirds the hegemony of north India by provincializing the south and its lowered-caste inhabitants. I term this phenomenon northernism, which renders the idea of India as synonymous with a brahminized rendering of north India. Drawing from Jyoti Nisha’s elaboration of Bahujan spectatorship, I develop Dravidian spectatorship as a meth…
Engendering threat in the guise of protection
On August 5, 2012, self-avowed white supremacist Wade Michael Page gunned down six Sikh worshipers at a Gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before turning the gun on himself. The coverage of the shooting in select media outlets mostly blamed Wade’s obsession with white supremacist hate music and his troubled childhood for the fatal shooting spree. Alternately, I argue that other, neglected factors also converged to produce the conditions that resu…
Queer Activism in India
Engendering threat in the guise of protection
On August 5, 2012, self-avowed white supremacist Wade Michael Page gunned down six Sikh worshipers at a Gurudwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, before turning the gun on himself. The coverage of the shooting in select media outlets mostly blamed Wade’s obsession with white supremacist hate music and his troubled childhood for the fatal shooting spree. Alternately, I argue that other, neglected factors also converged to produce the conditions that resu…
Not a Metaphor
This essay argues that if 'decolonization in the settler colonial context must involve the repatriation of (Native) land'(p. 7), then autoethnography committed to decolonization should first and foremost center Native struggles over land and life. For this task and given my own position as a postcolonial immigrant on Native lands, I elaborate an immigrant of color autoethnography to demystify the discourses that privilege select postcolonial immi…
The “One Percent”
Through an analysis of the indie movie For Here or To Go? this essay argues that the rhetoric of “unfairness” articulated by Indian tech workers not only elides privileges, but also increasingly relies on the figure of the illegal immigrant to perform injury and to shore up claims of desirability and inclusion. Although constructed using juridical-legal logics of legality/illegality, the illegal immigrant mirrors racial, gender, and other anxieti…
Queer Terror
Indian or south Indian? The casteist roots of northern hegemony
This paper argues that brahmanical conceptions of India centered on Aryavarta and structured by casteist logics undergirds the hegemony of north India by provincializing the south and its lowered-caste inhabitants. I term this phenomenon northernism, which renders the idea of India as synonymous with a brahminized rendering of north India. Drawing from Jyoti Nisha’s elaboration of Bahujan spectatorship, I develop Dravidian spectatorship as a meth…
Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works)