Sayan Dey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4098823 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sayan Dey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sayan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dey |
| SIGNATURE | DEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bayan College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7569-5519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Unspeaking or the Refusal to Speak? Silence and the Indigene in New Wave Kokborok Cinema
From Ebola to Covid-19 and beyond: Analysing performative acts in global health crises
In health emergencies, communication plays a decisive role in shaping how the crisis is understood and acted upon. Certain communicative events function as performative acts as they bring social realities into being. This conceptual analysis, guided by Butler's theory of performativity examines two selected vignettes from the West African Ebola epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The analysis demonstrates that performative acts gain forc…
Reporting blasphemy, constructing ‘Others’: Media, xenophobia and the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan
This paper investigates how online news spaces in Pakistan construct discourses surrounding blasphemy allegations concerning religious minorities. Integrating the theoretical frameworks of framing, moral panic, symbolic annihilation and bare life, positioning them within wider structures of xenophobic exclusion, this study examines the Asia Bibi case and the Shahzad and Shama lynching. The findings reveal that media discourses magnify moral panic…
Margins vis-à-vis Misrecognition: Intersectional Vulnerabilities of Women Journalists in Northeast India
Conviviality and Critical Diversity Literacy
Why this special issue?Currently, the world is experiencing extreme warfare, genocides, hatred, fortifications, destruction and catastrophes rooted in the social, historical, and epistemological practices of self-obsession, pseudoscience, manipulative histories, rumours, and other entrenched perspectives.A more immense fear is how these practices are getting systematised and normalised by colonial and capitalistic jargons like "development", "mod…
The Fanonian Turn: Review—Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (eds), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology , Routledge, New York & London, and Nigel C. Gibson (ed.), Fanon Today: Reason and R…
This is a review essay on two edited volumes titled Fanon Today and Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology . The essay reflects on the diverse ways in which Frantz Fanon’s ideologies and philosophies have been explored by the authors in different racial, social, cultural, historical, political, economic, gendered, and geographical contexts. The essay also argues how the contributions collectively voice toward building a transcultural and transconti…
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean
Baine Maara-Indu Mama-Siddi Dhamal: Interwoven Performances of Epistemic Justice and Cognitive Freedom by the Siddis of Karnataka, India
The Siddis were brought to India from the southern and eastern parts of Africa by the Arab and Portuguese colonisers. At present, the Siddis in India can be found in parts of Gujarat (a state located in western India), Hyderabad (a state located in southeastern India) and Karnataka (a state located in southwestern India). They are habitually subjected to colonially reconfigured violence of epistemic and cognitive injustices by the mainstream colo…
Pedagogy of ‘Refusing’ – commentary to Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Sreekanta, Mwambari, Mehta and Majumder
This commentary is a critical response to the dialogic essay “The unruly arts of ethnographic refusal: power, politics, performativity” that unpacks the complex performances of hierarchies and violence as performed during ethnographic research works in anthropology. During ethno-graphic research works, the encounter between the researchers and the research participants are often underlaid with tensions that either compel the participants to speak…
Pedagogy of Performative Silence
Usually, during any form of communication in an institutional classroom and beyond, the phenomenon of “silence” is regarded as a form of epistemological and ontological absence. To elaborate further, the act of remaining silent is usually equated with incapability and nothingness. The authenticity and relevance of building and sharing knowledge with one another are mostly judged on the basis of one’s capability to verbally express. But silence as…
Pedagogy of common sense
Histories Myths and Decolonial Interventions
Corona-logy: A Re-Configuration of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary India
The practice of racism is underpinned by various parameters: religion, geography, class, gender, and so forth. These underlying parameters have been faking their own insignificance and disappearance (Santos 2020) in such a systemic fashion that they successfully continue to operate in a naturalised and multiplicative manner in the contemporary era. For instance, let us look into the recent incidents of communal (stigmatisation of the Nizamuddin M…
The Dis-Ease of Body-Politics: “Coronavirus” as a Racial Pandemic in Contemporary India
The biomedical crisis of COVID-19 in India has amplified several other crises, namely; social, cultural, communal, religious, geographical, economic, political, racial and gender. It is important to note that these crises are not new - they were already socio-culturally embedded and functional in the pre-COVID-19 era. With the inception of COVID-19, these crises have been further aggravated through the re-configuration and re-systematisation of v…
Decolonisation and Food: The Burden of Colonial Gastronomy – Stories from West Bengal
This article makes an effort to unpack the ways in which the traditional food customs of precolonial Bengal were colonised by the Europeans, especially the British, followed by the Portuguese. In the course of its unpacking, the article reflects rather elaborately, as the details reveal, on how the colonisation of food customs and culinary practices of precolonial Bengal opened gateways for the Europeans to fragment the traditional society of pre…
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The Dis-Ease of Body-Politics: “Coronavirus” as a Racial Pandemic in Contemporary India
The biomedical crisis of COVID-19 in India has amplified several other crises, namely; social, cultural, communal, religious, geographical, economic, political, racial and gender. It is important to note that these crises are not new - they were already socio-culturally embedded and functional in the pre-COVID-19 era. With the inception of COVID-19, these crises have been further aggravated through the re-configuration and re-systematisation of v…
Decolonisation and Food: The Burden of Colonial Gastronomy – Stories from West Bengal
This article makes an effort to unpack the ways in which the traditional food customs of precolonial Bengal were colonised by the Europeans, especially the British, followed by the Portuguese. In the course of its unpacking, the article reflects rather elaborately, as the details reveal, on how the colonisation of food customs and culinary practices of precolonial Bengal opened gateways for the Europeans to fragment the traditional society of pre…
Corona-logy: A Re-Configuration of Racial Dynamics in Contemporary India
The practice of racism is underpinned by various parameters: religion, geography, class, gender, and so forth. These underlying parameters have been faking their own insignificance and disappearance (Santos 2020) in such a systemic fashion that they successfully continue to operate in a naturalised and multiplicative manner in the contemporary era. For instance, let us look into the recent incidents of communal (stigmatisation of the Nizamuddin M…
Pedagogy of Performative Silence
Usually, during any form of communication in an institutional classroom and beyond, the phenomenon of “silence” is regarded as a form of epistemological and ontological absence. To elaborate further, the act of remaining silent is usually equated with incapability and nothingness. The authenticity and relevance of building and sharing knowledge with one another are mostly judged on the basis of one’s capability to verbally express. But silence as…
Pedagogy of common sense
Histories Myths and Decolonial Interventions
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean
Baine Maara-Indu Mama-Siddi Dhamal: Interwoven Performances of Epistemic Justice and Cognitive Freedom by the Siddis of Karnataka, India
The Siddis were brought to India from the southern and eastern parts of Africa by the Arab and Portuguese colonisers. At present, the Siddis in India can be found in parts of Gujarat (a state located in western India), Hyderabad (a state located in southeastern India) and Karnataka (a state located in southwestern India). They are habitually subjected to colonially reconfigured violence of epistemic and cognitive injustices by the mainstream colo…
Pedagogy of ‘Refusing’ – commentary to Siriwardane-de Zoysa, Sreekanta, Mwambari, Mehta and Majumder
This commentary is a critical response to the dialogic essay “The unruly arts of ethnographic refusal: power, politics, performativity” that unpacks the complex performances of hierarchies and violence as performed during ethnographic research works in anthropology. During ethno-graphic research works, the encounter between the researchers and the research participants are often underlaid with tensions that either compel the participants to speak…
Conviviality and Critical Diversity Literacy
Why this special issue?Currently, the world is experiencing extreme warfare, genocides, hatred, fortifications, destruction and catastrophes rooted in the social, historical, and epistemological practices of self-obsession, pseudoscience, manipulative histories, rumours, and other entrenched perspectives.A more immense fear is how these practices are getting systematised and normalised by colonial and capitalistic jargons like "development", "mod…
The Fanonian Turn: Review—Leswin Laubscher, Derek Hook, and Miraj Desai (eds), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology , Routledge, New York & London, and Nigel C. Gibson (ed.), Fanon Today: Reason and R…
This is a review essay on two edited volumes titled Fanon Today and Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology . The essay reflects on the diverse ways in which Frantz Fanon’s ideologies and philosophies have been explored by the authors in different racial, social, cultural, historical, political, economic, gendered, and geographical contexts. The essay also argues how the contributions collectively voice toward building a transcultural and transconti…
The Unspeaking or the Refusal to Speak? Silence and the Indigene in New Wave Kokborok Cinema
From Ebola to Covid-19 and beyond: Analysing performative acts in global health crises
In health emergencies, communication plays a decisive role in shaping how the crisis is understood and acted upon. Certain communicative events function as performative acts as they bring social realities into being. This conceptual analysis, guided by Butler's theory of performativity examines two selected vignettes from the West African Ebola epidemic and the COVID-19 pandemic in India. The analysis demonstrates that performative acts gain forc…
Reporting blasphemy, constructing ‘Others’: Media, xenophobia and the persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan
This paper investigates how online news spaces in Pakistan construct discourses surrounding blasphemy allegations concerning religious minorities. Integrating the theoretical frameworks of framing, moral panic, symbolic annihilation and bare life, positioning them within wider structures of xenophobic exclusion, this study examines the Asia Bibi case and the Shahzad and Shama lynching. The findings reveal that media discourses magnify moral panic…
Margins vis-à-vis Misrecognition: Intersectional Vulnerabilities of Women Journalists in Northeast India
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Pedagogy (3 works)