B Ghosh
Biographic Data
| ID | 43896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | B Ghosh |
| GIVEN NAMES | B |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghosh |
| SIGNATURE | GHOSH B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0342-615X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
We Haven’t Started Yet
Our reflection commences with a workshop we had planned for the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) in April 2025 centered around one question: What should teaching “Palestinian film and media” include? The original idea was to convene those with expertise/experience in the area and nonexperts who see teaching Palestine as a historical necessity in order to reflect collectively on their curriculum and pedagogies amid…
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
The Plague Check: Population Culling as Pandemic Realpolitik
The COVID pandemic presented a bioeconomic opportunity to re-entrench extant differences (racial, sexual, ethnic, religious, or otherwise) and to escalate the ongoing engineering of imagined communities. This paper examines how this general paradigm unfolded in India’s lockdown of March 2020, and the consequent “long walk home” for migrant laborers. Narendra Modi’s decision exemplifies an autoimmune drive that splits the national body-politic int…
A multispecies cinema of apprehension
This essay theorizes the cinematic experience of apprehension accompanying representations of multispecies relations in the age of global pandemics. Globally synchronous experiences of cascading epidemics in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries have made spectators aware of the microbes that inhabit ‘us’, the animals that carry ‘them’ and the mediums (water, air, soils) that sustain all these forms of life. In this historical situ…
Emergence and History
What does it mean to write histories of global pandemics? As global forms defined by their wide geographic extension, minimal population immunity, and contagiousness, among other criteria, pandemics are notoriously difficult crisis-events to plot temporally or to scale spatially (see Movens, Folkers, and Fauci for criteria). The problem is a conceptual one, for “true emergences” are multitemporal nonlinear occurrences unfolding across different o…
The Making of the Hindu Normative
This essay reviews Anustup Basu's book Hindutva as Political Monotheism (2020) in the context of current debates over Hindu political theology after the Bharatiya Janata Party's electoral wins of 2014 and 2018. The book charts the consolidation of Hinduism as a monotheistic imperative ever since its inception in the second decade of the nineteenth century, and its axiomatic place in present-day masculinist majoritarian India—“Modi's India.” This …
"Species Commons": Bishnupriya Ghosh in Conversation with Amit R. Baishya
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first two monographs were on cultures of globalization: When Borne Across: Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (2011)
Relocations of the households affected by the development of the New Yogyakarta International Airport, Indonesia: Problems and livelihood prospects
Land acquisition for infrastructure development in Indonesia, including Yogyakarta International Airport, has adopted a new principle of profitable compensation. Two options were created: voluntary self-relocation and government-assisted relocation. People whose farms were only partially appropriated by the project did not need to join the relocation. This paper compares problems faced by the three groups and their livelihood prospects, especiall…
Environment
Epidemic Frontlines: The Slow Science of Observation
This essay focuses on the “epidemic notes” of frontline healthcare workers as a form of qualitative observation that can potentiate public intelligence about emerging infectious disease crises. As one coterie of healthcare workers, registered nurses who write about frontline experiences can immerse nonexperts in an epidemic sensorium, and productively involve them in evolving medical advisories and health policies. I draw on print and oral histor…
In Difference: The Vernacular Then and Now
While vernacular broadly connotes localized nonstandard cultural formations, in the crucible of British colonialism the vernacular emerged as a regulative category indispensable to colonial governa
The business case for SDGs: An Analysis of Inclusive Business Models in Emerging Economies
In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were endorsed by the United Nations and adopted by all 193 Member States. The SDGs integrate the 5P's: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership and clearly stress the need for all stakeholders to collaborate to create a sustainable world. Most importantly, the SDGs appeal to the central and diverse role that the business sector can play to deliver on the SDGs. This paper provid…
The Security Aesthetic in Bollywood's High-Rise Horror
This essay theorizes a constellation of "high-rise horror" films from contemporary Bollywood as a cinema of apprehension. I elaborate an emergent "techno-aesthetic of security" that plunges spectators into an immersive experience of horror, orienting them to the violence of acute dispossession (of lands and livelihoods) catalyzed by current speculative financial globalization
Media Frictions
Becoming Social
Those Lives Less Ordinary
In the Name of the Popular
Moving Technologies
Public Image Ltd.
Volatile Icons
Corporeal Apertures
The Hole that Wasn't There
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Hole that Wasn't There For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in IndiaArondekar, Anjali Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 215 pp. Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 683–685. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302487 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation B…
Looking through Coca-Cola: Global Icons and the Popular
The essay analyzes a 2002 anti-Coca Cola struggle in Plachimada, a village in South India, that mushroomed into a coalition of demands on resource extraction, health, and regulated foreign investments by 2004. The primary focus is on the expressive play with symbols necessary for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the forma…
The Colonial Postcard: The Spectral/Telepathic Mode in Conan Doyle and Kipling
Such Enlightenment, the narrator tells us facetiously, is effected by an elastic religion known as the Simla Creed, alive at the edges of the British Empire where he, an unnamed Englishman, is stationed. An amalgam of occult practices, the creed stretched itself and embraced pieces of everything that the medicine-men of all ages have manufactured (63). So Rudyard Kipling mockingly observes in this satire of British Victorian forays into the margi…
The subaltern at the edge of the popular
This paper takes as its point of departure Ranajit Guha's early prediction of the semiotic leap of faith the theorist must make to sight subaltern insurgency.1 As insurgent, the subaltern exerts pr
On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcolonial Spectrology
Research Article| May 01 2004 On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcolonial Spectrology Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-197 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bishnupriya Ghosh; On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcoloni…
The business case for SDGs: An Analysis of Inclusive Business Models in Emerging Economies
In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were endorsed by the United Nations and adopted by all 193 Member States. The SDGs integrate the 5P's: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership and clearly stress the need for all stakeholders to collaborate to create a sustainable world. Most importantly, the SDGs appeal to the central and diverse role that the business sector can play to deliver on the SDGs. This paper provid…
The subaltern at the edge of the popular
This paper takes as its point of departure Ranajit Guha's early prediction of the semiotic leap of faith the theorist must make to sight subaltern insurgency.1 As insurgent, the subaltern exerts pr
In Difference: The Vernacular Then and Now
While vernacular broadly connotes localized nonstandard cultural formations, in the crucible of British colonialism the vernacular emerged as a regulative category indispensable to colonial governa
Looking through Coca-Cola: Global Icons and the Popular
The essay analyzes a 2002 anti-Coca Cola struggle in Plachimada, a village in South India, that mushroomed into a coalition of demands on resource extraction, health, and regulated foreign investments by 2004. The primary focus is on the expressive play with symbols necessary for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the forma…
Satyajit Ray's Devi: Constructing a third-world feminist critique
Journal Article Satyajit Ray's Devi: constructing a third–world feminist critique Get access Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.2.165 Published: 01 July 1992
The Security Aesthetic in Bollywood's High-Rise Horror
This essay theorizes a constellation of "high-rise horror" films from contemporary Bollywood as a cinema of apprehension. I elaborate an emergent "techno-aesthetic of security" that plunges spectators into an immersive experience of horror, orienting them to the violence of acute dispossession (of lands and livelihoods) catalyzed by current speculative financial globalization
The Colonial Postcard: The Spectral/Telepathic Mode in Conan Doyle and Kipling
Such Enlightenment, the narrator tells us facetiously, is effected by an elastic religion known as the Simla Creed, alive at the edges of the British Empire where he, an unnamed Englishman, is stationed. An amalgam of occult practices, the creed stretched itself and embraced pieces of everything that the medicine-men of all ages have manufactured (63). So Rudyard Kipling mockingly observes in this satire of British Victorian forays into the margi…
Satyajit Ray's Devi: Constructing a third-world feminist critique
Journal Article Satyajit Ray's Devi: constructing a third–world feminist critique Get access Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 33, Issue 2, Summer 1992, Pages 165–173, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/33.2.165 Published: 01 July 1992
The Postcolonial Bazaar: Thoughts on Teaching the Market in Postcolonial Objects
Postmodern Culture - Volume 9, Number 1, September 1998
Women Filmmakers of the African and Asian Diaspora: Decolonizing the Gaze, Locating Subjectivity . Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Representing Blackness: Issues in Film and Video . Valerie Smith
On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcolonial Spectrology
Research Article| May 01 2004 On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcolonial Spectrology Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2004) 31 (2): 197–218. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-31-2-197 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bishnupriya Ghosh; On Grafting the Vernacular: The Consequences of Postcoloni…
The subaltern at the edge of the popular
This paper takes as its point of departure Ranajit Guha's early prediction of the semiotic leap of faith the theorist must make to sight subaltern insurgency.1 As insurgent, the subaltern exerts pr
The Colonial Postcard: The Spectral/Telepathic Mode in Conan Doyle and Kipling
Such Enlightenment, the narrator tells us facetiously, is effected by an elastic religion known as the Simla Creed, alive at the edges of the British Empire where he, an unnamed Englishman, is stationed. An amalgam of occult practices, the creed stretched itself and embraced pieces of everything that the medicine-men of all ages have manufactured (63). So Rudyard Kipling mockingly observes in this satire of British Victorian forays into the margi…
Looking through Coca-Cola: Global Icons and the Popular
The essay analyzes a 2002 anti-Coca Cola struggle in Plachimada, a village in South India, that mushroomed into a coalition of demands on resource extraction, health, and regulated foreign investments by 2004. The primary focus is on the expressive play with symbols necessary for the very constitution of the popular. Daily rituals around the Coca Cola logo (placing empty plastic pots as mute witness to water scarcity) became critical to the forma…
Media Frictions
Becoming Social
Those Lives Less Ordinary
In the Name of the Popular
Moving Technologies
Public Image Ltd.
Volatile Icons
Corporeal Apertures
The Hole that Wasn't There
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Hole that Wasn't There For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in IndiaArondekar, Anjali Durham: Duke University Press, 2009. xii + 215 pp. Bishnupriya Ghosh Bishnupriya Ghosh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2011) 17 (4): 683–685. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-1302487 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation B…
The Security Aesthetic in Bollywood's High-Rise Horror
This essay theorizes a constellation of "high-rise horror" films from contemporary Bollywood as a cinema of apprehension. I elaborate an emergent "techno-aesthetic of security" that plunges spectators into an immersive experience of horror, orienting them to the violence of acute dispossession (of lands and livelihoods) catalyzed by current speculative financial globalization
The business case for SDGs: An Analysis of Inclusive Business Models in Emerging Economies
In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were endorsed by the United Nations and adopted by all 193 Member States. The SDGs integrate the 5P's: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership and clearly stress the need for all stakeholders to collaborate to create a sustainable world. Most importantly, the SDGs appeal to the central and diverse role that the business sector can play to deliver on the SDGs. This paper provid…
In Difference: The Vernacular Then and Now
While vernacular broadly connotes localized nonstandard cultural formations, in the crucible of British colonialism the vernacular emerged as a regulative category indispensable to colonial governa
Environment
Epidemic Frontlines: The Slow Science of Observation
This essay focuses on the “epidemic notes” of frontline healthcare workers as a form of qualitative observation that can potentiate public intelligence about emerging infectious disease crises. As one coterie of healthcare workers, registered nurses who write about frontline experiences can immerse nonexperts in an epidemic sensorium, and productively involve them in evolving medical advisories and health policies. I draw on print and oral histor…
"Species Commons": Bishnupriya Ghosh in Conversation with Amit R. Baishya
Bishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first two monographs were on cultures of globalization: When Borne Across: Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (2011)
Relocations of the households affected by the development of the New Yogyakarta International Airport, Indonesia: Problems and livelihood prospects
Land acquisition for infrastructure development in Indonesia, including Yogyakarta International Airport, has adopted a new principle of profitable compensation. Two options were created: voluntary self-relocation and government-assisted relocation. People whose farms were only partially appropriated by the project did not need to join the relocation. This paper compares problems faced by the three groups and their livelihood prospects, especiall…
A multispecies cinema of apprehension
This essay theorizes the cinematic experience of apprehension accompanying representations of multispecies relations in the age of global pandemics. Globally synchronous experiences of cascading epidemics in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries have made spectators aware of the microbes that inhabit ‘us’, the animals that carry ‘them’ and the mediums (water, air, soils) that sustain all these forms of life. In this historical situ…
Emergence and History
What does it mean to write histories of global pandemics? As global forms defined by their wide geographic extension, minimal population immunity, and contagiousness, among other criteria, pandemics are notoriously difficult crisis-events to plot temporally or to scale spatially (see Movens, Folkers, and Fauci for criteria). The problem is a conceptual one, for “true emergences” are multitemporal nonlinear occurrences unfolding across different o…
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