Swapna Gopinath
Biographic Data
| ID | 4149824 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swapna Gopinath |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swapna |
| FAMILY NAME | Gopinath |
| SIGNATURE | GOPINATH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Symbiosis International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0925-3592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tracing the Evolution of Tradwives in India
Tradwife culture has gained considerable traction on social media and in the alt-right environment in recent times, with the trend picking up across the world. Since the age of globalisation, and with the proliferation of television channels, tradwives began to be presented as conservative women in the world of soap operas in India, in the serials commonly known as saas-bahu serials (Mother-in-law-daughter-in-law). They remained popular in the ne…
Indigenous Cinemas from South Asia
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film
Hashtag activism and feminisms
New communication technologies, social media spaces and hashtag activism give context to this. But it has also resulted in the evolution of a prominent variant of feminist thoughts among others - right-wing feminism. Adopting components of decolonial theories and positioning itself as indigenous and nationalist, the Sabarimala agitation, and #ReadytoWait campaign on social media is an apt example of this. This paper explores this idea, using the …
De-idolising the Heroes in Contemporary India
,
Analyzing an Emerging Genre
Received 14 March 2024. Accepted 29 April 2024. Published online 21 July 2024
Contextualizing the voice of a female pop artist
Intersectionalities in popular Hindi cinema
Politics of apoliticality and the Indian citizen in popular Hindi cinema
Re-reading the Tales of Colonisation
Received 17 September 2022. Published online 10 April 2023
Ronan Lee. Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide
Ronan Lee. Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech." Genocide Studies International, 14(2), pp. 191–192
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
The Mortality Narratives in Cultural Representations
Malayalam cinema is a vibrant creative space that post 1990s, underwent a transformation, leading to a proliferation of films, uniquely experimental in nature. An interesting perspective explored in detail was that of mortality, analysis of death from a microcosmic perspective. Evaluating death as an event in Deleuzian framework enables us to gain interesting insights and the film used for study here is Ee. Ma. Yau. (2018) which has a funeral for…
Waves across the South
Reviewed by: Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram Swapna Gopinath Sivasundaram, Sujit. Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire. London: William Collins, 2020. Sujit Sivasundaram, professor of world history at Cambridge, writes extensively on the history of oceans and sea-facing lands, retelling global histories and initiating conversations around little narratives from the Glo…
Historicizing Hindutva Ideology
Hindutva, in the new millennium, has evolved into a national political ideology. Rooted within the Brahminical social structures, its growth has been facilitated by neoliberal capitalism and global flows of culture and capital. This new assemblage of power demands the attention of intellectuals, since its hegemony has been growing phenomenally, radically altering social institutions and shaping subjectivities for the new India. Though there have …
Manifestations of Microfascism in Spatial Dimensions
Mumbai has an identity that is built around its multicultural, multi-ethnic population, with an enterprising community that prides itself on its resilient spirit. The pluralism that marks the city’s social spaces remained powerful for decades resulting in an immigrant population from all over the country finding its home in this city. When Bombay was renamed Mumbai, it was also a reflection of the altered social sensibilities and the manifestatio…
Gendered Spaces Captured in Cultural Representations
Spatiality has emerged as a significant component in analyzing gendered experiences, and cultural expressions reveal this complex yet dynamic relationship in several ways. While some forms of art approach it in a direct, straightforward manner, literature does it, perhaps, in aesthetically diverse ways. Arundhati Roy has foregrounded the space and gender relationship in several ways, with language emerging as the most intricate tool to depict thi…
Heterotopic Assemblages within Religious Structures
Indian urban public spaces have witnessed massive transformation post liberalization and globalization. In 2017, city spaces offer novel experiences and unravel new political dynamics in tune with the paradigm shifts in socio-political, economic and cultural domains. The city was shaped by the colonial and later modernizing forces, is being foregrounded in the postmodern, postcolonial discourses, and its public spaces therefore emerge as signific…
Gender construct as a narrative and text
The film industry in Kerala (popularly known as ‘Mollywood’ in the mediasphere) is an obvious example of the changing face of the regional film industries in India in accordance with the varying socio-cultural values and demands of the audience. These films claim a multifaceted ‘newness’ in their narration, ranging from the themes explored to their techniques of production and narration. This article seeks to analyze whether this ‘newness’ is con…
Gender construct as a narrative and text
The film industry in Kerala (popularly known as ‘Mollywood’ in the mediasphere) is an obvious example of the changing face of the regional film industries in India in accordance with the varying socio-cultural values and demands of the audience. These films claim a multifaceted ‘newness’ in their narration, ranging from the themes explored to their techniques of production and narration. This article seeks to analyze whether this ‘newness’ is con…
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Gender construct as a narrative and text
The film industry in Kerala (popularly known as ‘Mollywood’ in the mediasphere) is an obvious example of the changing face of the regional film industries in India in accordance with the varying socio-cultural values and demands of the audience. These films claim a multifaceted ‘newness’ in their narration, ranging from the themes explored to their techniques of production and narration. This article seeks to analyze whether this ‘newness’ is con…
Gendered Spaces Captured in Cultural Representations
Spatiality has emerged as a significant component in analyzing gendered experiences, and cultural expressions reveal this complex yet dynamic relationship in several ways. While some forms of art approach it in a direct, straightforward manner, literature does it, perhaps, in aesthetically diverse ways. Arundhati Roy has foregrounded the space and gender relationship in several ways, with language emerging as the most intricate tool to depict thi…
Heterotopic Assemblages within Religious Structures
Indian urban public spaces have witnessed massive transformation post liberalization and globalization. In 2017, city spaces offer novel experiences and unravel new political dynamics in tune with the paradigm shifts in socio-political, economic and cultural domains. The city was shaped by the colonial and later modernizing forces, is being foregrounded in the postmodern, postcolonial discourses, and its public spaces therefore emerge as signific…
Manifestations of Microfascism in Spatial Dimensions
Mumbai has an identity that is built around its multicultural, multi-ethnic population, with an enterprising community that prides itself on its resilient spirit. The pluralism that marks the city’s social spaces remained powerful for decades resulting in an immigrant population from all over the country finding its home in this city. When Bombay was renamed Mumbai, it was also a reflection of the altered social sensibilities and the manifestatio…
The Mortality Narratives in Cultural Representations
Malayalam cinema is a vibrant creative space that post 1990s, underwent a transformation, leading to a proliferation of films, uniquely experimental in nature. An interesting perspective explored in detail was that of mortality, analysis of death from a microcosmic perspective. Evaluating death as an event in Deleuzian framework enables us to gain interesting insights and the film used for study here is Ee. Ma. Yau. (2018) which has a funeral for…
Waves across the South
Reviewed by: Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire by Sujit Sivasundaram Swapna Gopinath Sivasundaram, Sujit. Waves across the South: A New History of Revolution and Empire. London: William Collins, 2020. Sujit Sivasundaram, professor of world history at Cambridge, writes extensively on the history of oceans and sea-facing lands, retelling global histories and initiating conversations around little narratives from the Glo…
Historicizing Hindutva Ideology
Hindutva, in the new millennium, has evolved into a national political ideology. Rooted within the Brahminical social structures, its growth has been facilitated by neoliberal capitalism and global flows of culture and capital. This new assemblage of power demands the attention of intellectuals, since its hegemony has been growing phenomenally, radically altering social institutions and shaping subjectivities for the new India. Though there have …
Re-reading the Tales of Colonisation
Received 17 September 2022. Published online 10 April 2023
Ronan Lee. Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide
Ronan Lee. Myanmar's Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech." Genocide Studies International, 14(2), pp. 191–192
Historicizing Myths in Contemporary India
Analyzing an Emerging Genre
Received 14 March 2024. Accepted 29 April 2024. Published online 21 July 2024
Contextualizing the voice of a female pop artist
Intersectionalities in popular Hindi cinema
Politics of apoliticality and the Indian citizen in popular Hindi cinema
Hashtag activism and feminisms
New communication technologies, social media spaces and hashtag activism give context to this. But it has also resulted in the evolution of a prominent variant of feminist thoughts among others - right-wing feminism. Adopting components of decolonial theories and positioning itself as indigenous and nationalist, the Sabarimala agitation, and #ReadytoWait campaign on social media is an apt example of this. This paper explores this idea, using the …
De-idolising the Heroes in Contemporary India
,
Tracing the Evolution of Tradwives in India
Tradwife culture has gained considerable traction on social media and in the alt-right environment in recent times, with the trend picking up across the world. Since the age of globalisation, and with the proliferation of television channels, tradwives began to be presented as conservative women in the world of soap operas in India, in the serials commonly known as saas-bahu serials (Mother-in-law-daughter-in-law). They remained popular in the ne…
Indigenous Cinemas from South Asia
Settler Attachments and Asian Diasporic Film
South Asian Cinema and Culture (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Art (9 works) · History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works)