Sangeet Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4494795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sangeet Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sangeet |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7326-5048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tasks, sacrifices and digitized rituals
This essay advances the concept of ritualized nationalism in order to understand the rise of right wing populism in India. It analyzes Narendra Modi’s strategy of assigning tasks and seeking sacrifices from citizens in the name of nation building to understand how it has helped make nationalism a pervasive phenomenon that is unprecedented in India’s history. The essay utilizes the theory of rituals to claim that the prescribed formats of Modi’s t…
Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia
This short introductory essay first lays out the broader map of the digital media ecosystem in South Asia and then establishes the importance of this region in the global south--with its growing networked population--for understanding the future trajectories of global digital culture. Just as any other part of the world that is gradually getting on board the digital bandwagon, the South Asian digital landscape shows signs of both ingenuity, innov…
Digital Frontier
Charting an Itinerary for Postcolonial Communication and Media Studies
This article presents a pathway for forging “postcolonial communication and media studies,” an area of inquiry that emerges from collaborations between communication and media studies and postcolonial theory. We aim to show the affinities between these two fields and explore how our discipline can benefit from postcolonial theory’s commitment to understanding the legacies of colonialism’s vast historical reach. This article’s itinerary has three …
A river by any other name
The historically established relationship between knowledge and power has enabled critical scholars across disciplines to interrogate the ways in which knowledge has served as the handmaiden of various forms of power. The ways in which that relationship operates in the digital realm however remains to be fully understood. This essay’s analysis of an edit war that occurred over the naming of the Wikipedia page on the Indian river Ganga, seeks to u…
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Contagious memes, viral videos and subversive parody
This essay presents the viral culture of videos, memes, and websites deploying the tropes of parody and satire as a newly emerging discourse of social and cultural critique on the Indian web. It situates this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of a prior tradition of heterodoxy in India as well as the globally proliferating memetic culture. The essay argues that the speech is distinguished by a logic of repetition with difference both in its…
Articulation as a Site of Discursive Struggle
This article uses the theory of articulation to analyze the debate surrounding the decision by the Government of India to open up the Indian print media to foreign investment. The decision was preceded and followed by intense wrangling within the pages of the very newspapers that were to be affected by it, thus resulting in a contentious debate around the move. Using the theory of articulation to explore the mechanism of discursive power exercise…
News Parody in Global Perspective
The fatal snare of proximity
This article explores the phenomenology of live television through analysing the media coverage of the traumatic event of the Mumbai attacks. Carried out over 3 days, the event garnered global attention as its lurid details were transmitted live into living rooms with television channels seeking to gain viewership by getting the closest shot of the action. The competition for eyeballs compromised the rescue operation as trapped hostages were aske…
Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global
This article analyzes the role of political satire on Indian television through a comparative study of two satire shows (one each in Hindi and English). It investigates the process by which these shows, both based on successful Western formats, “Indianize” themselves and find audiences at a new cultural site. It argues that the shows adapt themselves to the Indian cultural milieu in distinct ways by aligning themselves along a postcolonial social…
Postcolonial identity in a globalizing India
Google Earth and the nation state
This article analyzes the nature of sovereignty in a globalizing world and the role new media entities play within it. It studies a protracted engagement between Google and nation states on the ability of the newly launched software Google Earth to zoom in on classified locations. Reading this tussle as an engagement between an older form of sovereignty and a newer one, this article argues that new media entities such as Google represent a new mo…
Contagious memes, viral videos and subversive parody
This essay presents the viral culture of videos, memes, and websites deploying the tropes of parody and satire as a newly emerging discourse of social and cultural critique on the Indian web. It situates this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of a prior tradition of heterodoxy in India as well as the globally proliferating memetic culture. The essay argues that the speech is distinguished by a logic of repetition with difference both in its…
Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global
This article analyzes the role of political satire on Indian television through a comparative study of two satire shows (one each in Hindi and English). It investigates the process by which these shows, both based on successful Western formats, “Indianize” themselves and find audiences at a new cultural site. It argues that the shows adapt themselves to the Indian cultural milieu in distinct ways by aligning themselves along a postcolonial social…
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Google Earth and the nation state
This article analyzes the nature of sovereignty in a globalizing world and the role new media entities play within it. It studies a protracted engagement between Google and nation states on the ability of the newly launched software Google Earth to zoom in on classified locations. Reading this tussle as an engagement between an older form of sovereignty and a newer one, this article argues that new media entities such as Google represent a new mo…
The fatal snare of proximity
This article explores the phenomenology of live television through analysing the media coverage of the traumatic event of the Mumbai attacks. Carried out over 3 days, the event garnered global attention as its lurid details were transmitted live into living rooms with television channels seeking to gain viewership by getting the closest shot of the action. The competition for eyeballs compromised the rescue operation as trapped hostages were aske…
Postcolonial identity in a globalizing India
Google Earth and the nation state
This article analyzes the nature of sovereignty in a globalizing world and the role new media entities play within it. It studies a protracted engagement between Google and nation states on the ability of the newly launched software Google Earth to zoom in on classified locations. Reading this tussle as an engagement between an older form of sovereignty and a newer one, this article argues that new media entities such as Google represent a new mo…
The fatal snare of proximity
This article explores the phenomenology of live television through analysing the media coverage of the traumatic event of the Mumbai attacks. Carried out over 3 days, the event garnered global attention as its lurid details were transmitted live into living rooms with television channels seeking to gain viewership by getting the closest shot of the action. The competition for eyeballs compromised the rescue operation as trapped hostages were aske…
Transgressing Boundaries as the Hybrid Global
This article analyzes the role of political satire on Indian television through a comparative study of two satire shows (one each in Hindi and English). It investigates the process by which these shows, both based on successful Western formats, “Indianize” themselves and find audiences at a new cultural site. It argues that the shows adapt themselves to the Indian cultural milieu in distinct ways by aligning themselves along a postcolonial social…
News Parody in Global Perspective
Articulation as a Site of Discursive Struggle
This article uses the theory of articulation to analyze the debate surrounding the decision by the Government of India to open up the Indian print media to foreign investment. The decision was preceded and followed by intense wrangling within the pages of the very newspapers that were to be affected by it, thus resulting in a contentious debate around the move. Using the theory of articulation to explore the mechanism of discursive power exercise…
Political parody and satire as subversive speech in the global digital sphere
Contagious memes, viral videos and subversive parody
This essay presents the viral culture of videos, memes, and websites deploying the tropes of parody and satire as a newly emerging discourse of social and cultural critique on the Indian web. It situates this cultural phenomenon at the intersection of a prior tradition of heterodoxy in India as well as the globally proliferating memetic culture. The essay argues that the speech is distinguished by a logic of repetition with difference both in its…
A river by any other name
The historically established relationship between knowledge and power has enabled critical scholars across disciplines to interrogate the ways in which knowledge has served as the handmaiden of various forms of power. The ways in which that relationship operates in the digital realm however remains to be fully understood. This essay’s analysis of an edit war that occurred over the naming of the Wikipedia page on the Indian river Ganga, seeks to u…
Charting an Itinerary for Postcolonial Communication and Media Studies
This article presents a pathway for forging “postcolonial communication and media studies,” an area of inquiry that emerges from collaborations between communication and media studies and postcolonial theory. We aim to show the affinities between these two fields and explore how our discipline can benefit from postcolonial theory’s commitment to understanding the legacies of colonialism’s vast historical reach. This article’s itinerary has three …
Introduction to the Special Issue Forum “Digital Cultures of South Asia
This short introductory essay first lays out the broader map of the digital media ecosystem in South Asia and then establishes the importance of this region in the global south--with its growing networked population--for understanding the future trajectories of global digital culture. Just as any other part of the world that is gradually getting on board the digital bandwagon, the South Asian digital landscape shows signs of both ingenuity, innov…
Digital Frontier
Tasks, sacrifices and digitized rituals
This essay advances the concept of ritualized nationalism in order to understand the rise of right wing populism in India. It analyzes Narendra Modi’s strategy of assigning tasks and seeking sacrifices from citizens in the name of nation building to understand how it has helped make nationalism a pervasive phenomenon that is unprecedented in India’s history. The essay utilizes the theory of rituals to claim that the prescribed formats of Modi’s t…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Media studies (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Business (3 works)