Arvind Rajagopal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 81557 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arvind Rajagopal |
| NOMBRES | Arvind |
| APELLIDO | Rajagopal |
| FIRMA | RAJAGOPAL A |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 136 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1993 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Between Europe and America
Werner Sollors is one of the first scholars of American literature to focus on African American literature before it was thought to constitute a canon in the academy. Unlike many other scholars who shared his focus, he completed his education in postwar Germany. The title of his doctoral dissertation on LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), completed at the Free University of Berlin in 1975, has a still-contemporary ring: “The Quest for a ‘Populist Moderni…
Communicationism
On Media and Politics in India
John Maynard Keynes once wrote that practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. It is through ideas that
The Rise of Hindu Populism in India's Public Sphere
The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle
Afterword
Contra Marx and Engels, the growth of capitalism has not necessarily exposed the real conditions of life for the bourgeois and the proletariat. The expansion of communication has led to the projection of imagined communities more compelling than those of class interest. The bourgeois public sphere was a case in point, of course, but what happened when this framework for communicating capitalism was transplanted outside the West? Effectively, in i…
Indian Media in Global Context
There is a curious partitioning of media histories of the west from those of other countries. The kind of comparative analysis that would be expected with a set of global technologies and practices is lacking. Although communications media were promoted as a technology of nation building by western powers and received as such by countries such as India, strangely, there is a wide gap between the rhetoric of globality and the literature pertaining…
Moral Economies of Corruption
all made sharp comments that made me reconsider key aspects of my argument.The anonymous readers for Duke University Press and my editor, Miriam Angress, have vastly improved the book with their careful attention to my argument and its implications.With such interlocutors, this book should be much better than it is; the fault for that, of course, is mine rather than theirs.I owe many people thanks for personal and professional support over the ye…
Putting America in Its Place
Rather than assume that media technology is inherently global in its form, we should ask how it came to be regarded as such. This essay argues that the historical origins of the media are specifically North American. While their physical reach may be global, our understanding of the media’s relation to globalization will retain the influence of its provincial origin unless we bring it into view as a problem
The Emergency as Prehistory of the New Indian Middle Class
Recent accounts of the National Emergency of 1975-1977 concur that the deviations it represented, while genuine, did not represent any fundamental change on the part of the Indian state, and that the period offers little distinct insight on the post-independence period as a whole. This paper seeks to argue, to the contrary, that the Emergency was a watershed in post-independence history. With its ban on dissent and suspension of constitutional ri…
Urban Segregation and
In this paper I inquire into how the disposition of public spaces and informal oral communication, can together create a commonsense mobilizing support for spectacular events of violence. The built form of the city, urban planning and resulting forms of social segregation, and popular linguistic practices, can combine to instantiate new political formations such as what I am calling a Special Political Zone, where the form of rule exercised is bo…
The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
This chapter interrogates the contradictions that befell the Congress Party in the wake of Indian independence in 1947. What happens when concepts and practices associated with Enlightenment—suffrage, freedoms of various kinds, political economy—are not homegrown but imports? When they do not develop gradually but are instituted in one year? Are not expressions of popular sovereignty but the explicitly pursued policy of a state seeking to discipl…
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
Special political zone
The violence in Gujarat in 2002 presented a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, a spectacle of violence ostensibly enacted by non-state forces that was covertly and overtly sanctioned by the state. Violence was both spatially localized and physically concentrated on Muslims. Apologists invoked a history of communal conflict and specifically of Muslim provocation, explaining the pogrom of 2002 as having ample precedent and justifiable cause. This pape…
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
Lawless violence often preceded the rule of law. British sovereignty depended on non-state actors such as the East India Company, whose lawless acts provoked the demand in the British Parliament for the rule of law. Contemporary terrorism marks a time when lawless violence proliferates and territorial boundaries are infringed upon, when state leaders invoke ‘non-state actors’ and argue for the need to respond in kind. Today the state mimics the b…
Beyond Media Therapy
Dramas of nationhood
An American Theory of the Public Sphere
America and its others
Markets, media and techniques of violence are the worm-holes of the late imperial formation of today, and shoot from the periphery to the core and back at the speed of light. To defend a space called America in this context is not the self-evident task it has been assumed to be. Increasingly, strategies of counter-terrorism blur into their target and form the nodal point for understanding a new era of governmentality. This essay briefly considers…
Comparative Studies in South Asian Culture and Society
Kemper, Steven. Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Leichty, Mark. Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Mazzarella, William. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Introduction Some years ago, I had the …
Living in a State of Emergency
Politics after Television
In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraor…
Politics after television
In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraord…
Technologies of Perception and the Cultures of Globalization
The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: HAWKERS, DEMOLITION RAIDS, AND A NEW REGIME OF CONSUMPTION Arvind Rajagopal Arvind Rajagopal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 91–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-3_68-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Arvind Rajagopal; The Violence of Commodit…
Hindu nationalism in the US
The meaning and implications of Hindu nationalist expression in the United States are different from those at home, but both are linked through transnational circuits of communication and exchange. In India, the invocation of religion summons up the unresolved debates between nationalism and social reform, and presents Hinduism as an implicitly conservative force. By contrast, in the US, Hindu religion is more self-consciously a medium of cultura…
The Emergency as Prehistory of the New Indian Middle Class
Recent accounts of the National Emergency of 1975-1977 concur that the deviations it represented, while genuine, did not represent any fundamental change on the part of the Indian state, and that the period offers little distinct insight on the post-independence period as a whole. This paper seeks to argue, to the contrary, that the Emergency was a watershed in post-independence history. With its ban on dissent and suspension of constitutional ri…
The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: HAWKERS, DEMOLITION RAIDS, AND A NEW REGIME OF CONSUMPTION Arvind Rajagopal Arvind Rajagopal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 91–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-3_68-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Arvind Rajagopal; The Violence of Commodit…
Special political zone
The violence in Gujarat in 2002 presented a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, a spectacle of violence ostensibly enacted by non-state forces that was covertly and overtly sanctioned by the state. Violence was both spatially localized and physically concentrated on Muslims. Apologists invoked a history of communal conflict and specifically of Muslim provocation, explaining the pogrom of 2002 as having ample precedent and justifiable cause. This pape…
The rise of national programming
Communicationism
Transnational networks and Hindu nationalism
Contemporary Hindu nationalism articulates a genteel multiculturalist presence in the United States that is at odds with militant Hindu supremacism in India. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) of America trumpets Hindu culture as both a contribution to America's multiculturalist experiment and as an example of successful multiculturalism in itself. Indian immigrants who support VHP in the United States think of the largely urban lower-class membersh…
Advertising, Politics and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer
America and its others
Markets, media and techniques of violence are the worm-holes of the late imperial formation of today, and shoot from the periphery to the core and back at the speed of light. To defend a space called America in this context is not the self-evident task it has been assumed to be. Increasingly, strategies of counter-terrorism blur into their target and form the nodal point for understanding a new era of governmentality. This essay briefly considers…
Putting America in Its Place
Rather than assume that media technology is inherently global in its form, we should ask how it came to be regarded as such. This essay argues that the historical origins of the media are specifically North American. While their physical reach may be global, our understanding of the media’s relation to globalization will retain the influence of its provincial origin unless we bring it into view as a problem
An American Theory of the Public Sphere
On Media and Politics in India
John Maynard Keynes once wrote that practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. It is through ideas that
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
Lawless violence often preceded the rule of law. British sovereignty depended on non-state actors such as the East India Company, whose lawless acts provoked the demand in the British Parliament for the rule of law. Contemporary terrorism marks a time when lawless violence proliferates and territorial boundaries are infringed upon, when state leaders invoke ‘non-state actors’ and argue for the need to respond in kind. Today the state mimics the b…
Beyond Media Therapy
Dramas of nationhood
Technologies of Perception and the Cultures of Globalization
The rise of national programming
Transnational networks and Hindu nationalism
Contemporary Hindu nationalism articulates a genteel multiculturalist presence in the United States that is at odds with militant Hindu supremacism in India. The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) of America trumpets Hindu culture as both a contribution to America's multiculturalist experiment and as an example of successful multiculturalism in itself. Indian immigrants who support VHP in the United States think of the largely urban lower-class membersh…
Advertising, Politics and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer
Hindu nationalism in the US
The meaning and implications of Hindu nationalist expression in the United States are different from those at home, but both are linked through transnational circuits of communication and exchange. In India, the invocation of religion summons up the unresolved debates between nationalism and social reform, and presents Hinduism as an implicitly conservative force. By contrast, in the US, Hindu religion is more self-consciously a medium of cultura…
Politics after Television
In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraor…
Politics after television
In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, the Ramayan, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraord…
Technologies of Perception and the Cultures of Globalization
The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics
Research Article| September 01 2001 The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: HAWKERS, DEMOLITION RAIDS, AND A NEW REGIME OF CONSUMPTION Arvind Rajagopal Arvind Rajagopal Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 91–113. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-19-3_68-91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Arvind Rajagopal; The Violence of Commodit…
Living in a State of Emergency
America and its others
Markets, media and techniques of violence are the worm-holes of the late imperial formation of today, and shoot from the periphery to the core and back at the speed of light. To defend a space called America in this context is not the self-evident task it has been assumed to be. Increasingly, strategies of counter-terrorism blur into their target and form the nodal point for understanding a new era of governmentality. This essay briefly considers…
Comparative Studies in South Asian Culture and Society
Kemper, Steven. Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Leichty, Mark. Suitably Modern: Making Middle-Class Culture in a New Consumer Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Mazzarella, William. Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003. Introduction Some years ago, I had the …
An American Theory of the Public Sphere
Dramas of nationhood
Beyond Media Therapy
Violence, publicity, and sovereignty
Lawless violence often preceded the rule of law. British sovereignty depended on non-state actors such as the East India Company, whose lawless acts provoked the demand in the British Parliament for the rule of law. Contemporary terrorism marks a time when lawless violence proliferates and territorial boundaries are infringed upon, when state leaders invoke ‘non-state actors’ and argue for the need to respond in kind. Today the state mimics the b…
The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment
This chapter interrogates the contradictions that befell the Congress Party in the wake of Indian independence in 1947. What happens when concepts and practices associated with Enlightenment—suffrage, freedoms of various kinds, political economy—are not homegrown but imports? When they do not develop gradually but are instituted in one year? Are not expressions of popular sovereignty but the explicitly pursued policy of a state seeking to discipl…
Civil Society Theory
Community, Types of
Special political zone
The violence in Gujarat in 2002 presented a paradoxical phenomenon, namely, a spectacle of violence ostensibly enacted by non-state forces that was covertly and overtly sanctioned by the state. Violence was both spatially localized and physically concentrated on Muslims. Apologists invoked a history of communal conflict and specifically of Muslim provocation, explaining the pogrom of 2002 as having ample precedent and justifiable cause. This pape…
The Emergency as Prehistory of the New Indian Middle Class
Recent accounts of the National Emergency of 1975-1977 concur that the deviations it represented, while genuine, did not represent any fundamental change on the part of the Indian state, and that the period offers little distinct insight on the post-independence period as a whole. This paper seeks to argue, to the contrary, that the Emergency was a watershed in post-independence history. With its ban on dissent and suspension of constitutional ri…
Urban Segregation and
In this paper I inquire into how the disposition of public spaces and informal oral communication, can together create a commonsense mobilizing support for spectacular events of violence. The built form of the city, urban planning and resulting forms of social segregation, and popular linguistic practices, can combine to instantiate new political formations such as what I am calling a Special Political Zone, where the form of rule exercised is bo…
Putting America in Its Place
Rather than assume that media technology is inherently global in its form, we should ask how it came to be regarded as such. This essay argues that the historical origins of the media are specifically North American. While their physical reach may be global, our understanding of the media’s relation to globalization will retain the influence of its provincial origin unless we bring it into view as a problem
The Rise of Hindu Populism in India's Public Sphere
The public sphere of debate and discussion predicated on transparency has given way to a public sphere of image and spectacle
Afterword
Contra Marx and Engels, the growth of capitalism has not necessarily exposed the real conditions of life for the bourgeois and the proletariat. The expansion of communication has led to the projection of imagined communities more compelling than those of class interest. The bourgeois public sphere was a case in point, of course, but what happened when this framework for communicating capitalism was transplanted outside the West? Effectively, in i…
Indian Media in Global Context
There is a curious partitioning of media histories of the west from those of other countries. The kind of comparative analysis that would be expected with a set of global technologies and practices is lacking. Although communications media were promoted as a technology of nation building by western powers and received as such by countries such as India, strangely, there is a wide gap between the rhetoric of globality and the literature pertaining…
Political science (25 obras) · Law (22 obras) · Sociology (22 obras) · Politics (19 obras) · Media studies (13 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (10 obras) · History (8 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 obras)