P Diwakar
Biographic Data
| ID | 56453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Diwakar |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Diwakar |
| SIGNATURE | DIWAKAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4498-3240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Placing Caste
In the face of India’s enduring caste inequalities, their entrenchment or resistance is central to social and urban navigation. In this article, I locate music as an important site to investigate how caste comes to be spatialized, where place identity comes to symbolize group difference, with the effect of exacerbating social and spatial segregation. I use ethnographic field notes from attending musical events and 103 interviews with members of t…
City Music—A Reprise
This essay explores the Gaana and Carnatic music tradition of the southern Indian city of Chennai
A Recipe for Disaster
This article investigates how governments use dramatic natural events such as disasters to justify potentially unpopular policy interventions. I use the case of the southern Indian city of Chennai to explore how different arms of the government have historically engaged with the question of slum tenure from the 1960s until the present moment. Using archival methods, I analyze policy documents to excavate how slums have been framed within the cont…
A Recipe for Disaster
This article investigates how governments use dramatic natural events such as disasters to justify potentially unpopular policy interventions. I use the case of the southern Indian city of Chennai to explore how different arms of the government have historically engaged with the question of slum tenure from the 1960s until the present moment. Using archival methods, I analyze policy documents to excavate how slums have been framed within the cont…
A Recipe for Disaster
This article investigates how governments use dramatic natural events such as disasters to justify potentially unpopular policy interventions. I use the case of the southern Indian city of Chennai to explore how different arms of the government have historically engaged with the question of slum tenure from the 1960s until the present moment. Using archival methods, I analyze policy documents to excavate how slums have been framed within the cont…
City Music—A Reprise
This essay explores the Gaana and Carnatic music tradition of the southern Indian city of Chennai
Placing Caste
In the face of India’s enduring caste inequalities, their entrenchment or resistance is central to social and urban navigation. In this article, I locate music as an important site to investigate how caste comes to be spatialized, where place identity comes to symbolize group difference, with the effect of exacerbating social and spatial segregation. I use ethnographic field notes from attending musical events and 103 interviews with members of t…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Music History and Culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Caste (1 work) · Computer security (1 work) · Diverse Musicological Studies (1 work)