Isha Malhotra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4148259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isha Malhotra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isha |
| FAMILY NAME | Malhotra |
| SIGNATURE | MALHOTRA I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7331-8632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New cartographies of heterotopic posturban cities in S. B. Divya's Machinehood (2021)
Waste Ecologies and Decoloniality in the Tropical Futurisms of Shiv Ramdas’s Domechild (2013)
This article engages in a decolonial reading of Shiv Ramdas’s Domechild (2013), delving into how the novel constructs futurisms to dismantle Western structures of dominance and control. It explicates tropical futurisms as orienting components that alert readers to disrupt epistemic singularity and imperial hegemony by insisting upon pluralized possible futures. Domechild fictionalizes a bifurcated world—City and Sanctuary—that interrogates the so…
Altruistic Surrogacy and Reproductive Futurism in Falguni Kothari’s The Object of Your Affections (2019)
Roads Narratives as Counter-sites: Navigating Public Spaces, Gender and Mobility in Bollywood Film Dhak Dhak (2023)
Reinvisiblisation’ of Indian Migrant Labours during/post Covid-19 Pandemic: A Biopolitical Study
The paper unravels the ‘reinvisiblisation’ of the Indian migrant labours, who underwent mass exodus because of the lockdown imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic that brought to light their ‘invisibility’ to Indian planners and policymakers. The research qualitatively analyses the selected incidents to elucidate upon their precarious experiences unique to the pandemic. It employs the Foucauldian theoretical framework of docile bodies to understand…
Encoding material female bodies through cosmetic surgeries: A study of cultural economy and the biometric dynamics of Indian Hindi film stars
The emergence of new body technologies has led to the deconstruction of a cosmetically enhanced celebrity body into a bioinformational data-self, which becomes a surveilled subject quantified through biometric proximity. Evidently, the bodies of Indian Hindi film actresses evolve into material sites for the discursive encoding, bioinformational performativity and transference of disciplining hegemonic beauty ideals. In this age of information, th…
Activism of Re-Membering: An Undoing of Museum History and Anthropocentric Ratiocination Through Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Clone (2018)
Navigating Motherhood through Surrogacy: Biological Citizenship and Maternal Agency in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers (2015)
This paper presents an analysis of Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), delving into the concept of biological citizenship and its implications for intended mothers. The study investigates how intended mothers step into the position of bioconsumers within the surrogacy industry, actively pursuing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) like commercial gestational surrogacy to accomplish their fixation for biological parenthood which…
The biopolitics of transnational commercial gestational surrogacy in Mimi (2021)
The study examines the Bollywood movie, Mimi, to unravel the systemic and structural exploitation of surrogates in the transnational commercial gestational surrogacy (TCGS) markets in India. The movie unpacks TCGS as a site of neoliberal eugenics and state-led biopolitics where the privileged white intended bioconsumers commission bodies of less-privileged women of the Global South. The complex hierarchical power relationship between the wealthy …
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse
The article makes a biopolitical study of commercial surrogacy in India through the case studies of Bollywood celebrities prioritizing bioengineered babies through surrogacy. Drawing upon the theories of the culture industry and neoliberal subjectivity, the entanglement between the cultural economy of celebrity and the medico-industrial complex is decoded. The study attempts to focus on the existing popular public discourse using newspaper articl…
Clinical Violence on Bioprecarious Bodies in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love
Dalit Humanism: Marginal Spatial Reality as a Site of Dalit Counterpublic in Bama’s Sangati and Tulsiram’s Murdahiya
In India, one of the major counter-discourses constituted to critique the culture of violence, silence and impunity, harboured by the Indian public sphere, is offered by Dalit literary writings. Dalit counterpublic highlights the alternate cultural spaces that subvert and disrupt the dominant structures of repression by valuing the Dalit standpoint. The present article claims that the Dalit counterpublic is subaltern as well as locational; subalt…
Atypical Athletic Corporeality and Clinical Embodied Deviance: A Case Study of Dutee Chand
The paper outlines the politics of gendered athleticism appropriated and instrumentalised through the medico-juridical apparatus of the sports governing bodies. The biomedical discourse governing the atypical athletic body and the embodied nature of its pathologised deviancy is drawn through the critical reflection of athletic regulatory bodies’ testing regimes and policies. It is through the detailed analysis of the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand’s…
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse
The article makes a biopolitical study of commercial surrogacy in India through the case studies of Bollywood celebrities prioritizing bioengineered babies through surrogacy. Drawing upon the theories of the culture industry and neoliberal subjectivity, the entanglement between the cultural economy of celebrity and the medico-industrial complex is decoded. The study attempts to focus on the existing popular public discourse using newspaper articl…
Atypical Athletic Corporeality and Clinical Embodied Deviance: A Case Study of Dutee Chand
The paper outlines the politics of gendered athleticism appropriated and instrumentalised through the medico-juridical apparatus of the sports governing bodies. The biomedical discourse governing the atypical athletic body and the embodied nature of its pathologised deviancy is drawn through the critical reflection of athletic regulatory bodies’ testing regimes and policies. It is through the detailed analysis of the Indian sprinter Dutee Chand’s…
Dalit Humanism: Marginal Spatial Reality as a Site of Dalit Counterpublic in Bama’s Sangati and Tulsiram’s Murdahiya
In India, one of the major counter-discourses constituted to critique the culture of violence, silence and impunity, harboured by the Indian public sphere, is offered by Dalit literary writings. Dalit counterpublic highlights the alternate cultural spaces that subvert and disrupt the dominant structures of repression by valuing the Dalit standpoint. The present article claims that the Dalit counterpublic is subaltern as well as locational; subalt…
The biopolitics of transnational commercial gestational surrogacy in Mimi (2021)
The study examines the Bollywood movie, Mimi, to unravel the systemic and structural exploitation of surrogates in the transnational commercial gestational surrogacy (TCGS) markets in India. The movie unpacks TCGS as a site of neoliberal eugenics and state-led biopolitics where the privileged white intended bioconsumers commission bodies of less-privileged women of the Global South. The complex hierarchical power relationship between the wealthy …
Bollywood celebrities as bioconsumers of reproductive technologies in neoliberal fertility markets: A study of popular public discourse
The article makes a biopolitical study of commercial surrogacy in India through the case studies of Bollywood celebrities prioritizing bioengineered babies through surrogacy. Drawing upon the theories of the culture industry and neoliberal subjectivity, the entanglement between the cultural economy of celebrity and the medico-industrial complex is decoded. The study attempts to focus on the existing popular public discourse using newspaper articl…
Clinical Violence on Bioprecarious Bodies in Kishwar Desai’s Origins of Love
Reinvisiblisation’ of Indian Migrant Labours during/post Covid-19 Pandemic: A Biopolitical Study
The paper unravels the ‘reinvisiblisation’ of the Indian migrant labours, who underwent mass exodus because of the lockdown imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic that brought to light their ‘invisibility’ to Indian planners and policymakers. The research qualitatively analyses the selected incidents to elucidate upon their precarious experiences unique to the pandemic. It employs the Foucauldian theoretical framework of docile bodies to understand…
Encoding material female bodies through cosmetic surgeries: A study of cultural economy and the biometric dynamics of Indian Hindi film stars
The emergence of new body technologies has led to the deconstruction of a cosmetically enhanced celebrity body into a bioinformational data-self, which becomes a surveilled subject quantified through biometric proximity. Evidently, the bodies of Indian Hindi film actresses evolve into material sites for the discursive encoding, bioinformational performativity and transference of disciplining hegemonic beauty ideals. In this age of information, th…
Activism of Re-Membering: An Undoing of Museum History and Anthropocentric Ratiocination Through Priya Sarukkai Chabria’s Clone (2018)
Navigating Motherhood through Surrogacy: Biological Citizenship and Maternal Agency in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers (2015)
This paper presents an analysis of Meera Syal's The House of Hidden Mothers (2015), delving into the concept of biological citizenship and its implications for intended mothers. The study investigates how intended mothers step into the position of bioconsumers within the surrogacy industry, actively pursuing assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) like commercial gestational surrogacy to accomplish their fixation for biological parenthood which…
New cartographies of heterotopic posturban cities in S. B. Divya's Machinehood (2021)
Waste Ecologies and Decoloniality in the Tropical Futurisms of Shiv Ramdas’s Domechild (2013)
This article engages in a decolonial reading of Shiv Ramdas’s Domechild (2013), delving into how the novel constructs futurisms to dismantle Western structures of dominance and control. It explicates tropical futurisms as orienting components that alert readers to disrupt epistemic singularity and imperial hegemony by insisting upon pluralized possible futures. Domechild fictionalizes a bifurcated world—City and Sanctuary—that interrogates the so…
Altruistic Surrogacy and Reproductive Futurism in Falguni Kothari’s The Object of Your Affections (2019)
Roads Narratives as Counter-sites: Navigating Public Spaces, Gender and Mobility in Bollywood Film Dhak Dhak (2023)
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