Swati Samantaray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5154573 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swati Samantaray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swati |
| FAMILY NAME | Samantaray |
| SIGNATURE | SAMANTARAY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | KIIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4823-9278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tourism’s [neo]Colonial Afterlives. Reading Blake C. Scott’s Unpacked
This paper takes Blake C. Scott’s Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism as its central archive to trace the historical continuities that shape contemporary tourism in the Caribbean. It argues that leisure in the region has never been innocent but has functioned as a neocolonial system structured by infrastructures, labor hierarchies, and cultural representations. Scott’s history demonstrates how imperial projects such as the Panama Canal, mosq…
African Tropics and Ecological Crisis
The paper examines how Helon Habila’s novels, Oil on Water (2010) and Travellers (2019), critique the tourist gaze as a means of commercializing ecological degradation and human dislocation in the vulnerable African tropics. Drawing on an African and Western postcolonial ecocritical framework, it demonstrates how Habila’s narratives foreground the convergence of tourism, extractive capitalism, slow ecological violence, and neocolonial power dynam…
Zambian Futurism and Decolonial Entanglements
This article explores the critical framework of tropical futurisms as presented in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), a novel that intertwines Zambia’s colonial past, postcolonial realities, and speculative futures. Serpell’s narrative challenges dominant, Eurocentric historical perspectives and reclaims Zambia’s agency through the themes of decoloniality, ecological resilience, and technological entanglements. By juxtaposing colonial infras…
The Code of Ecomysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works
Religion was our first attempt at literature, cosmology, ecology, making sense of where we are in the universe. All religions are inherently predisposed to mystical experience â a harmonious and balanced existence and substantiation of Nature and man â man, who is conscious of his existence both in the material and the spiritual realm, as man is the highest spirit and the lowest matter linked by mind. Ecomysticism embraces the idea that all life …
From Inner Peace to World Peace
Lord Jagannath of Puri is considered to be the focal point of the cultural synthesis of Odisha. This is manifested in innumerable sacred scriptures and in ritualistic practices of the revered divinity -Lord Jagannath. This paper shows how the literature of Odisha presents Jagannath consciousness as a way to achieving world peace from inner peace of mind. Jagannath consciousness follows humanism and it preaches the philosophy of love and peaceful …
Cyber Feminism
Feminism is an existential struggle to assert one's individuality-it stands for gender equality, independence and empowerment to women. The concept of feminism examines and analyzes gender identity, by way of targeting women's autonomous self-identity. If we enter into the world of cyberspace we find technology is opening up the possibility for female emancipation. Over just two decades, the Internet has worked a thorough revolution and is consid…
Zambian Futurism and Decolonial Entanglements
This article explores the critical framework of tropical futurisms as presented in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), a novel that intertwines Zambia’s colonial past, postcolonial realities, and speculative futures. Serpell’s narrative challenges dominant, Eurocentric historical perspectives and reclaims Zambia’s agency through the themes of decoloniality, ecological resilience, and technological entanglements. By juxtaposing colonial infras…
From Inner Peace to World Peace
Lord Jagannath of Puri is considered to be the focal point of the cultural synthesis of Odisha. This is manifested in innumerable sacred scriptures and in ritualistic practices of the revered divinity -Lord Jagannath. This paper shows how the literature of Odisha presents Jagannath consciousness as a way to achieving world peace from inner peace of mind. Jagannath consciousness follows humanism and it preaches the philosophy of love and peaceful …
Cyber Feminism
Feminism is an existential struggle to assert one's individuality-it stands for gender equality, independence and empowerment to women. The concept of feminism examines and analyzes gender identity, by way of targeting women's autonomous self-identity. If we enter into the world of cyberspace we find technology is opening up the possibility for female emancipation. Over just two decades, the Internet has worked a thorough revolution and is consid…
The Code of Ecomysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Works
Religion was our first attempt at literature, cosmology, ecology, making sense of where we are in the universe. All religions are inherently predisposed to mystical experience â a harmonious and balanced existence and substantiation of Nature and man â man, who is conscious of his existence both in the material and the spiritual realm, as man is the highest spirit and the lowest matter linked by mind. Ecomysticism embraces the idea that all life …
Zambian Futurism and Decolonial Entanglements
This article explores the critical framework of tropical futurisms as presented in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019), a novel that intertwines Zambia’s colonial past, postcolonial realities, and speculative futures. Serpell’s narrative challenges dominant, Eurocentric historical perspectives and reclaims Zambia’s agency through the themes of decoloniality, ecological resilience, and technological entanglements. By juxtaposing colonial infras…
Tourism’s [neo]Colonial Afterlives. Reading Blake C. Scott’s Unpacked
This paper takes Blake C. Scott’s Unpacked: A History of Caribbean Tourism as its central archive to trace the historical continuities that shape contemporary tourism in the Caribbean. It argues that leisure in the region has never been innocent but has functioned as a neocolonial system structured by infrastructures, labor hierarchies, and cultural representations. Scott’s history demonstrates how imperial projects such as the Panama Canal, mosq…
African Tropics and Ecological Crisis
The paper examines how Helon Habila’s novels, Oil on Water (2010) and Travellers (2019), critique the tourist gaze as a means of commercializing ecological degradation and human dislocation in the vulnerable African tropics. Drawing on an African and Western postcolonial ecocritical framework, it demonstrates how Habila’s narratives foreground the convergence of tourism, extractive capitalism, slow ecological violence, and neocolonial power dynam…
Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Tourism (2 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (2 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Art history (1 works)