Radha S Hegde
Biographic Data
| ID | 643885 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Radha S Hegde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Radha S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hegde |
| SIGNATURE | HEGDE R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7549-9887 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Finishing the business: Disentangled narratives of gendered success, diasporic citizenship and the ongoing quest for balance
Neoliberal narratives of resilience and transformation frame the success of the relatively few women and even fewer immigrant women who succeed in American industry. This article extends the critique of neoliberal feminism with an analysis of how the bestselling memoir and public persona of Indra Nooyi, a globally visible South Asian immigrant woman, disrupt the racial exclusivity of the discourse on women and work while aligning with a post-femi…
Speaking Miscommunication: Bridging a Postcolonial Abyss
The dualistic view of communication as both disease and cure, raised by John Durham Peters in Speaking into the Air, continues to gain traction globally. This view of communication has followed the itineraries of the neoliberal economy and its expectations. Communication today is the site where individual aspirations, market expectations and national interests meet and collide. Taking a cue from Peters of thinking with the past, this essay follow…
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic
National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articulating and reinforcing nationalism and neoliberalism. The campaigns frame the pandemic as a force that brings the nation together and conjure up notions …
Pathogens, Precarity, and Digital Politics of Exclusion
The global COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities and exposed the inadequacies of social and political infrastructures. The flight of the virus and protocols of shelter have reopened the question of how digital infrastructures are complicit with processes of precaritization and elide bodies already at risk. This essay discusses the need to locate the study of media and technology in the materialities of the precaritized body in order to theori…
AfterwordEntangled politics: Borderscapes and sexuality
The volatility of the present moment requires scholars to direct nuanced intellectual attention to the intertwined space of borders and sexuality. While these subjects have historically come into visibility in academic research as separate and self-contained fields of study, the emphasis has to be shifted to their constitutive connection and intersection. In their examination of contexts, institutions and representations that perpetuate forms of …
Contagion and the feminist transnational re-turn
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended life globally and turned the spotlight on the inadequacies of political systems and their infrastructural capacities to deal with the social fallout. Flaunting borders and checkpoints, the virus has been described as the great equalizer. However, the toll has been borne disproportionately by people of color, immigrants and the poor. The pandemic has exposed the fault lines of societies, exacerbated inequalities a…
Itinerant Data: Unveiling Gendered Scrutiny at the Border
As national borders are being transformed into technologized zones of securitization and national power, the surveillance of particular individuals and groups has become routine. Aided by a public culture of suspicion and belief in the neutrality of technology, national borders work to ferret out the digital tracks of those predetermined to be of risk or threat. Fortifying discriminatory structures of immigration control, the reworked digital fro…
Introduction: Corporeal media
It is time for feminist media studies to refocus its attention on the body. Bodies matter in the ways in which they are differentiated, globally positioned, valued, shared, disrupted, erased, mis-r
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
This book explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in transnationally networked, media-saturated environments, the book advances a discussion about sexual politics, media, technology, and globalization. Covering the Internet, television, books, telecommunications, newspapers,…
Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics
Using the vivid appeal of photographs and text, South Asian diasporic bloggers present the pleasures of traditional recipes of regional Indian food. While the bloggers offer individual reminiscences about home, homeland and the comfort of home-cooked meals, the blog serves as a cultural form that works within a circulatory matrix where new configurations of cosmopolitan sociality are being constituted. In the transnational intimacies of the virtu…
In Memoriam—Usha Zacharias
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our dear friend, colleague, and former Feminist Media Studies Commentary and Criticism (C&C) editor, Usha Zacharias.We open with a tribut
Gender, Globalization and the Politics of Visibility
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
Fragments and Interruptions: Sensory Regimes of Violence and the Limits of Feminist Ethnography
The ethnography of violence presents dilemmas that are at once ethical, corporal, intellectual, and political. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from the study of mothers and female infanticide in south India, this essay elaborates on one ethnographic encounter that both informed the representational process and talked back to its normative assumptions. The dynamics of the encounter are used as a point of departure to reflect on gendered violence,…
Disciplinary spaces and globalization: A postcolonial unsettling
Across the social sciences, the academic gaze is increasingly directed towards globalization and its impact on the social and economic landscape. It is both a theoretical and empirical challenge to capture the multilayered complexity posed by the sheer speed and scope of these changes. The inaugural issue of a new journal provides an opportunity to think about how the globe and, in particular, the world beyond the nation enter into the disciplina…
Culture, communication, and the challenge of globalization
This essay deals with the problematics that globalization poses for critical communication scholarship. Globalization challenges our understanding of culture and identity in ways that both open up new directions for communication scholarship and invite a rethinking of current ones. First, we discuss how difference is unsettled and re/staged in the context of globalization. Second, we address how uneven patterns of global processes are enacted thr…
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India
(2001). Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Marking Bodies, Reproducing Violence: A Feminist Reading of Female Infanticide in South India
Reproductive practices serve as an important site to examine the processes by which the female body is manipulated to service patriarchal power. This article situates the violent tragedy of female infanticide in south India within the everyday struggles of women in two rural communities. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. Based on ethnographic material collected in two rural areas in south India, the rese…
Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal Body and the Politics of Repoduction in a South Indian Context
Reproductive practices provide a space to examine the nature of political incursions into the female body. In India, femininity is epitomized in discursive definitions of motherhood and the maternal body. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. This essay explores how gendered subjectivities are constructed within the framework of reproductive ideology. The narratives reveal responses to oppression and the dis…
A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
Journal Article A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective Get access Radha S. Hegde Radha S. Hegde 1Radha S. Hegde (PhD, 1991, Ohio State University) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 3, 1 Au…
Recipes for Change: Weekly Help for Indian Women
This essay analyzes prescriptions for women's identity in Femina, the largest English language women's magazine in India. Three themes identified in the texts imply that while Femina promotes awareness, women are instructed to be cautious and not abandon tradition. Thus, the magazine promotes a balance between conventional patriarchal norms and assertiveness
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
Journal Article A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective Get access Radha S. Hegde Radha S. Hegde 1Radha S. Hegde (PhD, 1991, Ohio State University) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 3, 1 Au…
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
This book explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in transnationally networked, media-saturated environments, the book advances a discussion about sexual politics, media, technology, and globalization. Covering the Internet, television, books, telecommunications, newspapers,…
Disciplinary spaces and globalization: A postcolonial unsettling
Across the social sciences, the academic gaze is increasingly directed towards globalization and its impact on the social and economic landscape. It is both a theoretical and empirical challenge to capture the multilayered complexity posed by the sheer speed and scope of these changes. The inaugural issue of a new journal provides an opportunity to think about how the globe and, in particular, the world beyond the nation enter into the disciplina…
Fragments and Interruptions: Sensory Regimes of Violence and the Limits of Feminist Ethnography
The ethnography of violence presents dilemmas that are at once ethical, corporal, intellectual, and political. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from the study of mothers and female infanticide in south India, this essay elaborates on one ethnographic encounter that both informed the representational process and talked back to its normative assumptions. The dynamics of the encounter are used as a point of departure to reflect on gendered violence,…
Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal Body and the Politics of Repoduction in a South Indian Context
Reproductive practices provide a space to examine the nature of political incursions into the female body. In India, femininity is epitomized in discursive definitions of motherhood and the maternal body. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. This essay explores how gendered subjectivities are constructed within the framework of reproductive ideology. The narratives reveal responses to oppression and the dis…
Contagion and the feminist transnational re-turn
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended life globally and turned the spotlight on the inadequacies of political systems and their infrastructural capacities to deal with the social fallout. Flaunting borders and checkpoints, the virus has been described as the great equalizer. However, the toll has been borne disproportionately by people of color, immigrants and the poor. The pandemic has exposed the fault lines of societies, exacerbated inequalities a…
Itinerant Data: Unveiling Gendered Scrutiny at the Border
As national borders are being transformed into technologized zones of securitization and national power, the surveillance of particular individuals and groups has become routine. Aided by a public culture of suspicion and belief in the neutrality of technology, national borders work to ferret out the digital tracks of those predetermined to be of risk or threat. Fortifying discriminatory structures of immigration control, the reworked digital fro…
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India
(2001). Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Recipes for Change: Weekly Help for Indian Women
This essay analyzes prescriptions for women's identity in Femina, the largest English language women's magazine in India. Three themes identified in the texts imply that while Femina promotes awareness, women are instructed to be cautious and not abandon tradition. Thus, the magazine promotes a balance between conventional patriarchal norms and assertiveness
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic
National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articulating and reinforcing nationalism and neoliberalism. The campaigns frame the pandemic as a force that brings the nation together and conjure up notions …
Marking Bodies, Reproducing Violence: A Feminist Reading of Female Infanticide in South India
Reproductive practices serve as an important site to examine the processes by which the female body is manipulated to service patriarchal power. This article situates the violent tragedy of female infanticide in south India within the everyday struggles of women in two rural communities. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. Based on ethnographic material collected in two rural areas in south India, the rese…
Recipes for Change: Weekly Help for Indian Women
This essay analyzes prescriptions for women's identity in Femina, the largest English language women's magazine in India. Three themes identified in the texts imply that while Femina promotes awareness, women are instructed to be cautious and not abandon tradition. Thus, the magazine promotes a balance between conventional patriarchal norms and assertiveness
A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective
Journal Article A View from Elsewhere: Locating Difference and the Politics of Representation from a Transnational Feminist Perspective Get access Radha S. Hegde Radha S. Hegde 1Radha S. Hegde (PhD, 1991, Ohio State University) is assistant professor in the Department of Communication, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication Theory, Volume 8, Issue 3, 1 Au…
Marking Bodies, Reproducing Violence: A Feminist Reading of Female Infanticide in South India
Reproductive practices serve as an important site to examine the processes by which the female body is manipulated to service patriarchal power. This article situates the violent tragedy of female infanticide in south India within the everyday struggles of women in two rural communities. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. Based on ethnographic material collected in two rural areas in south India, the rese…
Sons and M(others): Framing the Maternal Body and the Politics of Repoduction in a South Indian Context
Reproductive practices provide a space to examine the nature of political incursions into the female body. In India, femininity is epitomized in discursive definitions of motherhood and the maternal body. Only the mother who can bear sons is socially validated in many communities. This essay explores how gendered subjectivities are constructed within the framework of reproductive ideology. The narratives reveal responses to oppression and the dis…
Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India
(2001). Global Makeovers and Maneuvers: Barbie's Presence in India. Feminist Media Studies: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 129-133
Culture, communication, and the challenge of globalization
This essay deals with the problematics that globalization poses for critical communication scholarship. Globalization challenges our understanding of culture and identity in ways that both open up new directions for communication scholarship and invite a rethinking of current ones. First, we discuss how difference is unsettled and re/staged in the context of globalization. Second, we address how uneven patterns of global processes are enacted thr…
Postcolonial Approaches to Communication: Charting the Terrain, Engaging the Intersections
This essay provides an introduction to postcolonial theory and criticism. It offers an overview of the questions and problematics with which postcolonial scholarship is concerned. It charts the historical and intellectual development of postcolonial studies. Finally, it explores the intersections of postcolonial studies and communication studies, and makes a case for the relevance of this area of work to communication scholarship
Postcolonial Scholarship?Productions and Directions: An Interview With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This interview took place on December 18, 2000, in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's office at Columbia University, New York. In a room lined with books and papers stacked high, Spivak spoke about postcolonial scholarship and its global challenges. Spanning a diverse range of interests, Gayatri Spivak's work has influenced critical scholarship across multiple disciplines throughout the world. Her scholarship has significantly shaped the course of post…
Disciplinary spaces and globalization: A postcolonial unsettling
Across the social sciences, the academic gaze is increasingly directed towards globalization and its impact on the social and economic landscape. It is both a theoretical and empirical challenge to capture the multilayered complexity posed by the sheer speed and scope of these changes. The inaugural issue of a new journal provides an opportunity to think about how the globe and, in particular, the world beyond the nation enter into the disciplina…
Fragments and Interruptions: Sensory Regimes of Violence and the Limits of Feminist Ethnography
The ethnography of violence presents dilemmas that are at once ethical, corporal, intellectual, and political. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from the study of mothers and female infanticide in south India, this essay elaborates on one ethnographic encounter that both informed the representational process and talked back to its normative assumptions. The dynamics of the encounter are used as a point of departure to reflect on gendered violence,…
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
Gender, Globalization and the Politics of Visibility
Food blogs and the digital reimagination of South Asian diasporic publics
Using the vivid appeal of photographs and text, South Asian diasporic bloggers present the pleasures of traditional recipes of regional Indian food. While the bloggers offer individual reminiscences about home, homeland and the comfort of home-cooked meals, the blog serves as a cultural form that works within a circulatory matrix where new configurations of cosmopolitan sociality are being constituted. In the transnational intimacies of the virtu…
In Memoriam—Usha Zacharias
It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the passing of our dear friend, colleague, and former Feminist Media Studies Commentary and Criticism (C&C) editor, Usha Zacharias.We open with a tribut
Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures
This book explores transnational media environments as pathways to understand the gendered constructions and contradictions that underwrite globalization. Tracking the ways in which gendered subjects are produced and defined in transnationally networked, media-saturated environments, the book advances a discussion about sexual politics, media, technology, and globalization. Covering the Internet, television, books, telecommunications, newspapers,…
Itinerant Data: Unveiling Gendered Scrutiny at the Border
As national borders are being transformed into technologized zones of securitization and national power, the surveillance of particular individuals and groups has become routine. Aided by a public culture of suspicion and belief in the neutrality of technology, national borders work to ferret out the digital tracks of those predetermined to be of risk or threat. Fortifying discriminatory structures of immigration control, the reworked digital fro…
Introduction: Corporeal media
It is time for feminist media studies to refocus its attention on the body. Bodies matter in the ways in which they are differentiated, globally positioned, valued, shared, disrupted, erased, mis-r
Pathogens, Precarity, and Digital Politics of Exclusion
The global COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities and exposed the inadequacies of social and political infrastructures. The flight of the virus and protocols of shelter have reopened the question of how digital infrastructures are complicit with processes of precaritization and elide bodies already at risk. This essay discusses the need to locate the study of media and technology in the materialities of the precaritized body in order to theori…
AfterwordEntangled politics: Borderscapes and sexuality
The volatility of the present moment requires scholars to direct nuanced intellectual attention to the intertwined space of borders and sexuality. While these subjects have historically come into visibility in academic research as separate and self-contained fields of study, the emphasis has to be shifted to their constitutive connection and intersection. In their examination of contexts, institutions and representations that perpetuate forms of …
Contagion and the feminist transnational re-turn
The Covid-19 pandemic has upended life globally and turned the spotlight on the inadequacies of political systems and their infrastructural capacities to deal with the social fallout. Flaunting borders and checkpoints, the virus has been described as the great equalizer. However, the toll has been borne disproportionately by people of color, immigrants and the poor. The pandemic has exposed the fault lines of societies, exacerbated inequalities a…
Speaking Miscommunication: Bridging a Postcolonial Abyss
The dualistic view of communication as both disease and cure, raised by John Durham Peters in Speaking into the Air, continues to gain traction globally. This view of communication has followed the itineraries of the neoliberal economy and its expectations. Communication today is the site where individual aspirations, market expectations and national interests meet and collide. Taking a cue from Peters of thinking with the past, this essay follow…
Crisis-ready responsible selves: National productions of the pandemic
National governments have played a key role in constructing the Covid-19 pandemic through their communications. Drawing on thematic, discursive and visual analyses of Covid-19 campaigns from 12 national contexts, we show how the pandemic has presented governments with unique conditions for articulating and reinforcing nationalism and neoliberalism. The campaigns frame the pandemic as a force that brings the nation together and conjure up notions …
Finishing the business: Disentangled narratives of gendered success, diasporic citizenship and the ongoing quest for balance
Neoliberal narratives of resilience and transformation frame the success of the relatively few women and even fewer immigrant women who succeed in American industry. This article extends the critique of neoliberal feminism with an analysis of how the bestselling memoir and public persona of Indra Nooyi, a globally visible South Asian immigrant woman, disrupt the racial exclusivity of the discourse on women and work while aligning with a post-femi…
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