Binayak Roy
Biographic Data
| ID | 6368590 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Binayak Roy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Binayak |
| FAMILY NAME | Roy |
| SIGNATURE | ROY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Bengal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7573-7267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Precarity, Climate Change and Migrant Labour Amitav Ghosh’s Eco-Aesthetics
Migrant workers play an increasing role in Asia, where they are both remarkably mobile and largely disorganized. The workers’ position leaves them disempowered within the workplace; it also leaves them vulnerable in the world outside. In this sense, migrant workers lead lives that are, in Hannah Lewis’s view “hyperprecarious”. The celebration of the collective has been a recurrent trope in Ghosh’s oeuvre, and this article seeks to shed light on t…
“Fantasy as Subversion”
Satyajit Ray’s faith in the integrity of his middle-class protagonists and his philosophical detachment coupled with his aesthetics of contemplation have often been brutally criticized by his Marxist critics. They have accused Ray of being a bourgeois humanist, a political effete without any specific ideology, estranged from tackling pressing contemporary social and political issues. The article attempts to trace Ray’s thoughts on cinema and anal…
Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen
Aleks Wansbrough’s latest book ends with a modest assertion that it does not make any predictions of new tendencies. Hence, his logical deduction is that a proper conclusion eludes the book’s scope. However, the book adroitly puts to use myth toward Marxist ends to unravel the alluring, enticing, and deceiving masks of screen devices and social media and exposes the multiple garbs of neoliberal capitalism. Wansbrough acknowledges his debt to Ador…
South Asian Village and the (Im)Possibility of Utopia. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn depicts a utopic, autochthonous, and indigenous rural community, the Kahars, in a state of transition. The marginalized community is certainly not a homogeneous and monolithic one, there are stratifications in professional identities; women are forced to migrate to be employed in workshops or rail-line employment. The airbase and airplanes during World War II signify offstage imperial and exist…
The “Alien” Experience
As an ethical project, critical posthumanism acknowledges that life-forms have intertwined histories. Life, both human and nonhuman, is about mutual interconnections, relationality rather than about isolation, separation, and boundedness. The article seeks to examine the posthumanist vision of Satyajit Ray as expostulated in his films and scripts. His swansong, Agantuk (The Stranger, 1991), acknowledges that environment-induced science/technology…
"Not at Home in Empire"
Amitav Ghosh opposes the “agonistic” or “reconciliatory” strand in postcolonial studies espoused amongst others by Bhabha. By fusing postcolonialism with postmodernism, this school of postcolonial thought rejects resistance and reconfigures the historical project of invasion, expropriation and exploitation as a symbiotic encounter. As a staunch anti-colonialist, what Ghosh presents in his writing is the ubiquity of the Eurocentrism of the coloniz…
Imperialism, Exile and Ethics
This article explicates the explicit link between imperialistic politics and self-serving humanist discourses which resulted in subjugation of culture at various levels. It also critiques the specious imperialist philosophy which inculcated the rhetoric of free trade and the internationalization of commerce as an ideological smokescreen to shroud their mercenary motives. Furthermore, it analyzes how the narrative re-invents the rich multicultural…
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Imperialism, Exile and Ethics
This article explicates the explicit link between imperialistic politics and self-serving humanist discourses which resulted in subjugation of culture at various levels. It also critiques the specious imperialist philosophy which inculcated the rhetoric of free trade and the internationalization of commerce as an ideological smokescreen to shroud their mercenary motives. Furthermore, it analyzes how the narrative re-invents the rich multicultural…
The “Alien” Experience
As an ethical project, critical posthumanism acknowledges that life-forms have intertwined histories. Life, both human and nonhuman, is about mutual interconnections, relationality rather than about isolation, separation, and boundedness. The article seeks to examine the posthumanist vision of Satyajit Ray as expostulated in his films and scripts. His swansong, Agantuk (The Stranger, 1991), acknowledges that environment-induced science/technology…
"Not at Home in Empire"
Amitav Ghosh opposes the “agonistic” or “reconciliatory” strand in postcolonial studies espoused amongst others by Bhabha. By fusing postcolonialism with postmodernism, this school of postcolonial thought rejects resistance and reconfigures the historical project of invasion, expropriation and exploitation as a symbiotic encounter. As a staunch anti-colonialist, what Ghosh presents in his writing is the ubiquity of the Eurocentrism of the coloniz…
Capitalism and the Enchanted Screen
Aleks Wansbrough’s latest book ends with a modest assertion that it does not make any predictions of new tendencies. Hence, his logical deduction is that a proper conclusion eludes the book’s scope. However, the book adroitly puts to use myth toward Marxist ends to unravel the alluring, enticing, and deceiving masks of screen devices and social media and exposes the multiple garbs of neoliberal capitalism. Wansbrough acknowledges his debt to Ador…
South Asian Village and the (Im)Possibility of Utopia. Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s The Tale of Hansuli Turn depicts a utopic, autochthonous, and indigenous rural community, the Kahars, in a state of transition. The marginalized community is certainly not a homogeneous and monolithic one, there are stratifications in professional identities; women are forced to migrate to be employed in workshops or rail-line employment. The airbase and airplanes during World War II signify offstage imperial and exist…
Precarity, Climate Change and Migrant Labour Amitav Ghosh’s Eco-Aesthetics
Migrant workers play an increasing role in Asia, where they are both remarkably mobile and largely disorganized. The workers’ position leaves them disempowered within the workplace; it also leaves them vulnerable in the world outside. In this sense, migrant workers lead lives that are, in Hannah Lewis’s view “hyperprecarious”. The celebration of the collective has been a recurrent trope in Ghosh’s oeuvre, and this article seeks to shed light on t…
“Fantasy as Subversion”
Satyajit Ray’s faith in the integrity of his middle-class protagonists and his philosophical detachment coupled with his aesthetics of contemplation have often been brutally criticized by his Marxist critics. They have accused Ray of being a bourgeois humanist, a political effete without any specific ideology, estranged from tackling pressing contemporary social and political issues. The article attempts to trace Ray’s thoughts on cinema and anal…
Political science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Ideology (3 works)