Dhanashree Thorat
Biographic Data
| ID | 4237570 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhanashree Thorat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhanashree |
| FAMILY NAME | Thorat |
| SIGNATURE | THORAT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Black Atlantic
This article locates how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in internet infrastructure, specifically focusing on Google's undersea fiber-optic cable named Equiano. This naming calls on Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was sold into slavery and later purchased his own freedom. Equiano eventually advocated for the abolitionist movement and published an autobiographical account called The Interesting Narra…
(Un)Palatable encounters
Drawing on scholarship on racial melancholia and food studies, this article traces the melancholic appetites manifested in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and examines how alimentary desires stand in for the consumptive desires of the US nation state in relation to the model minority as well as the recuperative mourning undertaken by the protagonist Changez upon his return to Pakistan. A double encounter with Lahori cuisine and melanc…
Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure
Modalities of data colonialism and South Asian hashtag publics
In December 2018, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, declared that data colonization was comparable to “previous forms of colonialization” and “India’s data must be controlled and owne
Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure
The global digital divide, referencing inequalities in Internet access between countries in the Global North and the Global South, has been the topic of conversation for several years internationally. This article traces the colonial modes of control and exclusion which undergird digital infrastructures in India. I examine the contemporary submarine cable network, the material infrastructure of the Internet today, in light of an older paradigm in…
Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure
The global digital divide, referencing inequalities in Internet access between countries in the Global North and the Global South, has been the topic of conversation for several years internationally. This article traces the colonial modes of control and exclusion which undergird digital infrastructures in India. I examine the contemporary submarine cable network, the material infrastructure of the Internet today, in light of an older paradigm in…
(Un)Palatable encounters
Drawing on scholarship on racial melancholia and food studies, this article traces the melancholic appetites manifested in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and examines how alimentary desires stand in for the consumptive desires of the US nation state in relation to the model minority as well as the recuperative mourning undertaken by the protagonist Changez upon his return to Pakistan. A double encounter with Lahori cuisine and melanc…
Modalities of data colonialism and South Asian hashtag publics
In December 2018, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, declared that data colonization was comparable to “previous forms of colonialization” and “India’s data must be controlled and owne
Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure
The global digital divide, referencing inequalities in Internet access between countries in the Global North and the Global South, has been the topic of conversation for several years internationally. This article traces the colonial modes of control and exclusion which undergird digital infrastructures in India. I examine the contemporary submarine cable network, the material infrastructure of the Internet today, in light of an older paradigm in…
Colonial Topographies of Internet Infrastructure
Modalities of data colonialism and South Asian hashtag publics
In December 2018, Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, declared that data colonization was comparable to “previous forms of colonialization” and “India’s data must be controlled and owne
Infrastructural Sovereignty in the Black Atlantic
This article locates how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in internet infrastructure, specifically focusing on Google's undersea fiber-optic cable named Equiano. This naming calls on Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was sold into slavery and later purchased his own freedom. Equiano eventually advocated for the abolitionist movement and published an autobiographical account called The Interesting Narra…
(Un)Palatable encounters
Drawing on scholarship on racial melancholia and food studies, this article traces the melancholic appetites manifested in Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist and examines how alimentary desires stand in for the consumptive desires of the US nation state in relation to the model minority as well as the recuperative mourning undertaken by the protagonist Changez upon his return to Pakistan. A double encounter with Lahori cuisine and melanc…
Colonialism (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)