Harmony Siganporia
Biographic Data
| ID | 4196617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harmony Siganporia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harmony |
| FAMILY NAME | Siganporia |
| SIGNATURE | SIGANPORIA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In which I am Sung to, Cry, and Other Suchlike
This chapter explores the experiences and reflexive identity positionings appropriated by and attributed to an Indian ethnomusicologist, me, currently researching among the Tibetan refugee community in and around Dharamsala, India. My work in this context examines the role of music(s) in the articulation of identity and place-making and, in particular, the making and performing of identities through cultural practices in exile settings. The perfo…
Who dreams this dreaming? Patanjali’s symbolic usurpation of the trope of the ‘enslaved’ Indian economy
Scholars have argued that the national economy is the symbolic rallying point around which the idea of India has long been grafted, from its depiction as ‘enslaved’ in colonial times to being enshrined at the heart of the nation-building processes which marked the early years of post-independence India. The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of a local fast-moving consumer goods giant which is the brainchild of an ascetic named Baba Ramdev. T…
From Drunken-Sage to Artiste, the Many Lives of the Tibetan Dekar
A man was found in Kollegaal refugee camp in Karnataka’s Mysore district. He wore a Chuba, and was clearly drunk. He was unkempt and would occasionally “expose” his genitals, letting himself hang loose. People were revolted by him. He lived with, among, and like the stray dogs: children would call him names and throw stones at him. Sometimes though, he would come to be surrounded by people. These keywords were added by machine and not by the auth…
Seeking Dhasa; Finding Lhasa
This article explores the role of narrative and narrativity in stabilising identity in an exile setting, read here as a way to avert what Bjørn Thomassen calls the 'danger' inherent to liminality. It does this by analysing the shape and visualscape of the little Himalayan town of Dharamsala, which serves as the secular and religious 'capital' of Tibetan exile. It attempts to decode the narratives which allow 'Dhasa', as Dharamsala is colloquially…
Introduction
No abstract available
All Equally Real
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume is a collection of research papers which deem gender identities to be dynamic and multiple categories, refusing resolutely to reduce their complexity to fit neat extant binaries. It attempts to grapple with the dialectic which emerges from the fact that while there is a certain resistance to being labeled in contemporary discourses on sexuality, gender identities act…
Seeking Dhasa; Finding Lhasa
This article explores the role of narrative and narrativity in stabilising identity in an exile setting, read here as a way to avert what Bjørn Thomassen calls the 'danger' inherent to liminality. It does this by analysing the shape and visualscape of the little Himalayan town of Dharamsala, which serves as the secular and religious 'capital' of Tibetan exile. It attempts to decode the narratives which allow 'Dhasa', as Dharamsala is colloquially…
Introduction
No abstract available
Who dreams this dreaming? Patanjali’s symbolic usurpation of the trope of the ‘enslaved’ Indian economy
Scholars have argued that the national economy is the symbolic rallying point around which the idea of India has long been grafted, from its depiction as ‘enslaved’ in colonial times to being enshrined at the heart of the nation-building processes which marked the early years of post-independence India. The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of a local fast-moving consumer goods giant which is the brainchild of an ascetic named Baba Ramdev. T…
All Equally Real
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. This volume is a collection of research papers which deem gender identities to be dynamic and multiple categories, refusing resolutely to reduce their complexity to fit neat extant binaries. It attempts to grapple with the dialectic which emerges from the fact that while there is a certain resistance to being labeled in contemporary discourses on sexuality, gender identities act…
From Drunken-Sage to Artiste, the Many Lives of the Tibetan Dekar
A man was found in Kollegaal refugee camp in Karnataka’s Mysore district. He wore a Chuba, and was clearly drunk. He was unkempt and would occasionally “expose” his genitals, letting himself hang loose. People were revolted by him. He lived with, among, and like the stray dogs: children would call him names and throw stones at him. Sometimes though, he would come to be surrounded by people. These keywords were added by machine and not by the auth…
Seeking Dhasa; Finding Lhasa
This article explores the role of narrative and narrativity in stabilising identity in an exile setting, read here as a way to avert what Bjørn Thomassen calls the 'danger' inherent to liminality. It does this by analysing the shape and visualscape of the little Himalayan town of Dharamsala, which serves as the secular and religious 'capital' of Tibetan exile. It attempts to decode the narratives which allow 'Dhasa', as Dharamsala is colloquially…
Introduction
No abstract available
In which I am Sung to, Cry, and Other Suchlike
This chapter explores the experiences and reflexive identity positionings appropriated by and attributed to an Indian ethnomusicologist, me, currently researching among the Tibetan refugee community in and around Dharamsala, India. My work in this context examines the role of music(s) in the articulation of identity and place-making and, in particular, the making and performing of identities through cultural practices in exile settings. The perfo…
Who dreams this dreaming? Patanjali’s symbolic usurpation of the trope of the ‘enslaved’ Indian economy
Scholars have argued that the national economy is the symbolic rallying point around which the idea of India has long been grafted, from its depiction as ‘enslaved’ in colonial times to being enshrined at the heart of the nation-building processes which marked the early years of post-independence India. The past decade has seen the meteoric rise of a local fast-moving consumer goods giant which is the brainchild of an ascetic named Baba Ramdev. T…
History (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (2 works)