Dhriti Shankar
Biographic Data
| ID | 5155280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhriti Shankar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhriti |
| FAMILY NAME | Shankar |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0183-9911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Somaesthetics of urban automobility: ‘Journey’ as a kinetic metaphor in embodied urban epistemes
Somaesthetics of urban automobility opens up underexplored dimensions of the ‘mobility turn’, acting as a key tool of reconfiguring implicit narratives of control and exclusions within the structuration of everyday urban epistemes. The mobile epistemes of everyday journeys remap known social inequities in very different, quick, need-based approximations for maintaining somatic integrity and the status quo. Somaesthetics, as a cognate field to kin…
Redefining ‘safe bodies’: Queering the shifting body politics during the Covid-19 pandemic
Bodily safety during the post-covid ‘new normal’ is a fraught, but phantasmal notion, subject to manipulation by both institutional and non-institutional power structures. Looking at the Indian context, a queerer understanding of the pandemic is required at a time when bodily relations have been queered by numerous instances where new forms of non-economic social stratification are discernible. Bodies are getting targeted, otherized, and discrimi…
Redefining ‘safe bodies’: Queering the shifting body politics during the Covid-19 pandemic
Bodily safety during the post-covid ‘new normal’ is a fraught, but phantasmal notion, subject to manipulation by both institutional and non-institutional power structures. Looking at the Indian context, a queerer understanding of the pandemic is required at a time when bodily relations have been queered by numerous instances where new forms of non-economic social stratification are discernible. Bodies are getting targeted, otherized, and discrimi…
Redefining ‘safe bodies’: Queering the shifting body politics during the Covid-19 pandemic
Bodily safety during the post-covid ‘new normal’ is a fraught, but phantasmal notion, subject to manipulation by both institutional and non-institutional power structures. Looking at the Indian context, a queerer understanding of the pandemic is required at a time when bodily relations have been queered by numerous instances where new forms of non-economic social stratification are discernible. Bodies are getting targeted, otherized, and discrimi…
Somaesthetics of urban automobility: ‘Journey’ as a kinetic metaphor in embodied urban epistemes
Somaesthetics of urban automobility opens up underexplored dimensions of the ‘mobility turn’, acting as a key tool of reconfiguring implicit narratives of control and exclusions within the structuration of everyday urban epistemes. The mobile epistemes of everyday journeys remap known social inequities in very different, quick, need-based approximations for maintaining somatic integrity and the status quo. Somaesthetics, as a cognate field to kin…
Aesthetics (1 works) · Consumption (sociology (1 works) · Context (archaeology (1 works) · Embodied cognition (1 works) · Field (mathematics (1 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Gender Studies (1 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 works) · History (1 works)