Radhika Mohanram
Biographic Data
| ID | 531555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radhika Mohanram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radhika |
| FAMILY NAME | Mohanram |
| SIGNATURE | MOHANRAM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4243-2509 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transcultural, Transnational Histories
Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of state borders, especially in Eastern Europe, the fluidity of the contours of nations, and the vagaries and idiosyncratic nature of political changes in the European continent from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The title of this work takes its inspiration from Zygmunt Bauman’s famous work, Liquid Modernity (2000). Bauman’s work, which was published in …
Imperialism as Diaspora
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Yet postcolonial interpretations that focus on such single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—durin…
Gendered Spectre
The focus of this essay is gendered collective memory of the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, at the time of Independence from British rule. The essay addresses the question of whether there are similarities between trauma studies that developed within a Western Freudian psychoanalytic framework and the anti-colonial theory practiced by decolonizing nations. Taking two women's texts, the essay examines how gender manifests itself wi…
Comparative partitions
Gastronomia Anglo-India
This essay examines the relationship between feast and famine, the logic of modernity and imperial rule. It juxtaposes two different ‘texts’ of British imperialism – the 1878 cookbook Culinary Jottings of Madras and the Madras famine of 1875–1878 – to examine the dynamics between feast and famine, not only under imperial rule, but also in the present
White Water
Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book a…
White Water
Gastronomia Anglo-India
This essay examines the relationship between feast and famine, the logic of modernity and imperial rule. It juxtaposes two different ‘texts’ of British imperialism – the 1878 cookbook Culinary Jottings of Madras and the Madras famine of 1875–1878 – to examine the dynamics between feast and famine, not only under imperial rule, but also in the present
Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts
Postcolonial discourse is fast becoming an area of rich academic debate. At the heart of coloniality and postcoloniality is the contested authority of empire and its impact upon previously colonized peoples and their indigenous cultures. This book examines various theories of colonization and decolonization, and how the ideas of a British empire create networks of discourses in contemporary postcolonial cultures. The various essays in this book a…
White Water
Gendered Spectre
The focus of this essay is gendered collective memory of the partition of the Indian sub-continent in 1947, at the time of Independence from British rule. The essay addresses the question of whether there are similarities between trauma studies that developed within a Western Freudian psychoanalytic framework and the anti-colonial theory practiced by decolonizing nations. Taking two women's texts, the essay examines how gender manifests itself wi…
Comparative partitions
Gastronomia Anglo-India
This essay examines the relationship between feast and famine, the logic of modernity and imperial rule. It juxtaposes two different ‘texts’ of British imperialism – the 1878 cookbook Culinary Jottings of Madras and the Madras famine of 1875–1878 – to examine the dynamics between feast and famine, not only under imperial rule, but also in the present
Imperialism as Diaspora
Within postcolonial studies, Britain’s long contact with India has been read generally only within the context of imperialism to inform our understanding of race, gender, identity, and power within colonialism. Yet postcolonial interpretations that focus on such single dimensions of identity risk disregarding the sense of displacement, discontinuities, and discomforts that compromised everyday life for the British in India—the Anglo-Indians—durin…
Transcultural, Transnational Histories
Stefano Bianchini’s comprehensive work Liquid Nationalism focuses on the frequent redrawing of state borders, especially in Eastern Europe, the fluidity of the contours of nations, and the vagaries and idiosyncratic nature of political changes in the European continent from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The title of this work takes its inspiration from Zygmunt Bauman’s famous work, Liquid Modernity (2000). Bauman’s work, which was published in …
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works)