Rahul Mitra
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rahul Mitra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rahul |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitra |
| SIGNATURE | MITRA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0238-0660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Graduate students’ resilience and resistance: Exploring adaptive-transformative possibilities in higher education
Given intensified calls to attend to mental health in academia, we sought to understand how graduate students in the communication discipline anticipate, respond to, and resist institutional stressors via their resilience processes. Drawing on interviews with 50 graduate students, we examined how graduate students’ resilience communication processes enacted adaptive-transformative possibilities for resistance across micro, meso, and macro organiz…
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: Online harassment of Asian Americans during Covid-19
This study explores perceptions of online racial hate speech directed at Asian Americans in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how individuals’ enactment of resilience communication in response to that threat affected their self-reported estimates of personal health. Using a nationally representative survey (n = 1767) that oversampled Asian Americans (n = 455), we found that Asian Americans perceived the problem of online…
Social Institutions and Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda
Communicative tensions of meaningful work: The case of sustainability practitioners
This study, based on in-depth interviews with 45 practitioners in the emerging field of environmental sustainability, argues for a more nuanced approach to studying the meaningfulness of work. Drawing from the tension-centered approach, we posit that sustainability practitioners derived meaningfulness in tensional ways from circumstances and factors that were both enabling and constraining, stemming from various organizational, professional and p…
Reconstituting “America”: The Clean Energy Economy Ventriloquized
With the foregrounding of “clean energy” policies by climate change concerns, the rhetorical constitution of “America” as a collective subject, mobilized to adopt the clean energy economy (CEE), becomes crucial. Here, I analyze the constitutive rhetoric of Pew Charitable Trusts’ landmark 2009 report on the CEE, drawing from the ventriloqual perspective to communication. I argue that this approach provides a more pragmatic, conversational understa…
Proposing a culture-centered approach to career scholarship: The example of subsistence careers in the US Arctic
In this article, I draw from the culture-centered approach to explore contemporary negotiations of career and work, positing career as a form of cultural practice. Rooted in postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, the culture-centered approach examines the active accomplishment of culture through everyday communicative practices, amidst the structural conditions that frame lived experiences, and focusing specifically on marginalized groups. I …
From Transformational Leadership to Leadership Trans-Formations: A Critical Dialogic Perspective
Noting overlaps between leadership and transformation processes, I outline a critical digital perspective that shifts focus from transformational leadership behaviors to how leadership “trans-formations” occur. Specifically, this article avers that naming particular identities, processes, and concepts by leaders and change participants enacts transformation. These three domains are “co-named” by leaders and participants in ongoing communicative s…
Living Foreignness/Community: Potentiality and “Ordinary” Performances of Being/Non-Being
My aim in this essay is to show how foreignness/community is continuously performed in “ordinary” life, both reifying and resisting normative/normalized ways of being. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's concept of potentiality, I outline a performance-based framework that sees foreignness-as-potentiality passing into the actuality of community. Foreignness is layered, acting in and being acted upon various sites of the body, including nationality, but …
Outlining a Dialogic Framework of Difference: How do Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India Constitute and Negotiate Difference
This essay answers the call for intersectional examinations of difference constitution/negotiation. I outline a dialogic framework of difference, actively accomplished via communication in conjunction with material conditions of object, site and body. The essay draws from an ethnography with Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India. It finds that the refugees use dialogic domains of segregation–assimilation, safety–risk, and agency–passivity to make se…
Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas: A Dialogic Encounter
Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic e…
Communicative tensions of meaningful work: The case of sustainability practitioners
This study, based on in-depth interviews with 45 practitioners in the emerging field of environmental sustainability, argues for a more nuanced approach to studying the meaningfulness of work. Drawing from the tension-centered approach, we posit that sustainability practitioners derived meaningfulness in tensional ways from circumstances and factors that were both enabling and constraining, stemming from various organizational, professional and p…
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: Online harassment of Asian Americans during Covid-19
This study explores perceptions of online racial hate speech directed at Asian Americans in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how individuals’ enactment of resilience communication in response to that threat affected their self-reported estimates of personal health. Using a nationally representative survey (n = 1767) that oversampled Asian Americans (n = 455), we found that Asian Americans perceived the problem of online…
Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas: A Dialogic Encounter
Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic e…
Proposing a culture-centered approach to career scholarship: The example of subsistence careers in the US Arctic
In this article, I draw from the culture-centered approach to explore contemporary negotiations of career and work, positing career as a form of cultural practice. Rooted in postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, the culture-centered approach examines the active accomplishment of culture through everyday communicative practices, amidst the structural conditions that frame lived experiences, and focusing specifically on marginalized groups. I …
Outlining a Dialogic Framework of Difference: How do Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India Constitute and Negotiate Difference
This essay answers the call for intersectional examinations of difference constitution/negotiation. I outline a dialogic framework of difference, actively accomplished via communication in conjunction with material conditions of object, site and body. The essay draws from an ethnography with Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India. It finds that the refugees use dialogic domains of segregation–assimilation, safety–risk, and agency–passivity to make se…
Queer Blogging in Indian Digital Diasporas: A Dialogic Encounter
Queering and transgendering practices have been visible across the Internet since the time of multiuser domains (MUDs), MUD object oriented domains (MOOs), e-mail lists, and Web bulletins. This article maps some themes of queering in the Indian digital diaspora through an intergenerational lens, produced in the acts of online and offline coauthoring, weblogging, and reading of instances of such online queering relationally. By way of a dialogic e…
Outlining a Dialogic Framework of Difference: How do Sri Lankan Tamil Refugees in India Constitute and Negotiate Difference
This essay answers the call for intersectional examinations of difference constitution/negotiation. I outline a dialogic framework of difference, actively accomplished via communication in conjunction with material conditions of object, site and body. The essay draws from an ethnography with Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India. It finds that the refugees use dialogic domains of segregation–assimilation, safety–risk, and agency–passivity to make se…
Living Foreignness/Community: Potentiality and “Ordinary” Performances of Being/Non-Being
My aim in this essay is to show how foreignness/community is continuously performed in “ordinary” life, both reifying and resisting normative/normalized ways of being. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben's concept of potentiality, I outline a performance-based framework that sees foreignness-as-potentiality passing into the actuality of community. Foreignness is layered, acting in and being acted upon various sites of the body, including nationality, but …
From Transformational Leadership to Leadership Trans-Formations: A Critical Dialogic Perspective
Noting overlaps between leadership and transformation processes, I outline a critical digital perspective that shifts focus from transformational leadership behaviors to how leadership “trans-formations” occur. Specifically, this article avers that naming particular identities, processes, and concepts by leaders and change participants enacts transformation. These three domains are “co-named” by leaders and participants in ongoing communicative s…
Proposing a culture-centered approach to career scholarship: The example of subsistence careers in the US Arctic
In this article, I draw from the culture-centered approach to explore contemporary negotiations of career and work, positing career as a form of cultural practice. Rooted in postcolonial theory and subaltern studies, the culture-centered approach examines the active accomplishment of culture through everyday communicative practices, amidst the structural conditions that frame lived experiences, and focusing specifically on marginalized groups. I …
Reconstituting “America”: The Clean Energy Economy Ventriloquized
With the foregrounding of “clean energy” policies by climate change concerns, the rhetorical constitution of “America” as a collective subject, mobilized to adopt the clean energy economy (CEE), becomes crucial. Here, I analyze the constitutive rhetoric of Pew Charitable Trusts’ landmark 2009 report on the CEE, drawing from the ventriloqual perspective to communication. I argue that this approach provides a more pragmatic, conversational understa…
Communicative tensions of meaningful work: The case of sustainability practitioners
This study, based on in-depth interviews with 45 practitioners in the emerging field of environmental sustainability, argues for a more nuanced approach to studying the meaningfulness of work. Drawing from the tension-centered approach, we posit that sustainability practitioners derived meaningfulness in tensional ways from circumstances and factors that were both enabling and constraining, stemming from various organizational, professional and p…
Social Institutions and Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary Research Agenda
Racism and resilience of pandemic proportions: Online harassment of Asian Americans during Covid-19
This study explores perceptions of online racial hate speech directed at Asian Americans in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. We examined how individuals’ enactment of resilience communication in response to that threat affected their self-reported estimates of personal health. Using a nationally representative survey (n = 1767) that oversampled Asian Americans (n = 455), we found that Asian Americans perceived the problem of online…
Graduate students’ resilience and resistance: Exploring adaptive-transformative possibilities in higher education
Given intensified calls to attend to mental health in academia, we sought to understand how graduate students in the communication discipline anticipate, respond to, and resist institutional stressors via their resilience processes. Drawing on interviews with 50 graduate students, we examined how graduate students’ resilience communication processes enacted adaptive-transformative possibilities for resistance across micro, meso, and macro organiz…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dialogic (3 works) · Law (3 works)