Sandhya Krittika Narayanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 82160 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandhya Krittika Narayanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandhya Krittika |
| FAMILY NAME | Narayanan |
| SIGNATURE | NARAYANAN S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5662-9316 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward Resolute Futures? Trans and Nonbinary Linguistics in and for Our World Today
New Speakers for Established Listeners: Multilingual Regimentation for the Global Listening Subject in Peru
This article explores how institutionalized Indigenous language education practices perpetuate relationships of coloniality by regimenting the legibility of Indigenous linguistic knowledge in relation to the figure of a privileged, non‐Indigenous, listening subject. I analyze heritage Quechua‐ and Aymara‐language teaching practices in a secondary school program in the regional capital of Puno, Peru. My analysis of the practices and comments assoc…
Coalitions of Care and Persistent Refusal
In this welcome editorial, we thank our predecessors and set forth our own vision as new editors of Gender and Language. We acknowledge the contexts and constraints that require us to lead and navigate the journal through a politically fraught and fragmented world that persists in its enmity towards those it marginalizes and minoritizes. As scholars working across different disciplines in language, gender, and sexuality studies, we take up the ma…
Language Contact
Language contact highlights the social dynamics that are crucial to understanding language change and the emergence of linguistic variation and complexity over time. As an analytic approach and field of linguistic anthropological inquiry, it reminds us that the study of language cannot be separated from an in-depth understanding of the social context of contact, highlighting the need to center the analysis of human social practices, interactional…
The gender of language contact
This article considers how language contact is gendered through an analysis of how inter-Indigenous Quechua–Aymara boundary maintenance practices and ideologies are feminised in the Peruvian altiplano. The analysis focuses on the semiotic regimentation of Indigenous ethnolinguistic boundaries, concentrating on the role of four Indigenous female figures: the Indigenous wife; the Indigenous female market vendor; the reimagined mythic Indigenous fou…
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru
Traditional, Indigenous houses in Puno, Peru, were built using adobe bricks, stone, and wood. Today, young Indigenous couples are building houses that utilize modern materials such as concrete, brick, and steel. In this paper, I analyze the effects that changing materialities of house construction practices have on the durability and breadth of kin-relationships in Puno . I argue that these changes are possible due to the kind of personhood that …
Contact
Contact refers to the moment of encounter between different populations, and the social, cultural, and linguistic negotiations that ensue. It refers back to a specific time and place when difference and “otherness” is constructed. As a feminist keyword, "contact" can help us critically interrogate various axes of difference, and the conditions that enabled their emergence. Through the meeting of different populations and groups, it demands attent…
Ni paisana, ni Jacinta”: Language and the Scaling of Indigenous Femininity in Peru
In Peru, Andean indigeneity is often discursively gendered as female. Such a connection between indigeneity and femaleness is invoked in a range of discourses that marginalize the status of Indigenous individuals, and different forms of Indigenous heritage in the country. Yet does this imply that all variations of Indigenous femininity are evaluated and ideologized the same way? This article complicates the semiotic logics and frameworks by which…
Are we one: Quechua-Aymara contact and the challenges of boundary maintenance in Puno, Peru
Are we one: Quechua-Aymara contact and the challenges of boundary maintenance in Puno, Peru
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru
Traditional, Indigenous houses in Puno, Peru, were built using adobe bricks, stone, and wood. Today, young Indigenous couples are building houses that utilize modern materials such as concrete, brick, and steel. In this paper, I analyze the effects that changing materialities of house construction practices have on the durability and breadth of kin-relationships in Puno . I argue that these changes are possible due to the kind of personhood that …
Ni paisana, ni Jacinta”: Language and the Scaling of Indigenous Femininity in Peru
In Peru, Andean indigeneity is often discursively gendered as female. Such a connection between indigeneity and femaleness is invoked in a range of discourses that marginalize the status of Indigenous individuals, and different forms of Indigenous heritage in the country. Yet does this imply that all variations of Indigenous femininity are evaluated and ideologized the same way? This article complicates the semiotic logics and frameworks by which…
Are we one: Quechua-Aymara contact and the challenges of boundary maintenance in Puno, Peru
Contact
Contact refers to the moment of encounter between different populations, and the social, cultural, and linguistic negotiations that ensue. It refers back to a specific time and place when difference and “otherness” is constructed. As a feminist keyword, "contact" can help us critically interrogate various axes of difference, and the conditions that enabled their emergence. Through the meeting of different populations and groups, it demands attent…
Ni paisana, ni Jacinta”: Language and the Scaling of Indigenous Femininity in Peru
In Peru, Andean indigeneity is often discursively gendered as female. Such a connection between indigeneity and femaleness is invoked in a range of discourses that marginalize the status of Indigenous individuals, and different forms of Indigenous heritage in the country. Yet does this imply that all variations of Indigenous femininity are evaluated and ideologized the same way? This article complicates the semiotic logics and frameworks by which…
Language Contact
Language contact highlights the social dynamics that are crucial to understanding language change and the emergence of linguistic variation and complexity over time. As an analytic approach and field of linguistic anthropological inquiry, it reminds us that the study of language cannot be separated from an in-depth understanding of the social context of contact, highlighting the need to center the analysis of human social practices, interactional…
The gender of language contact
This article considers how language contact is gendered through an analysis of how inter-Indigenous Quechua–Aymara boundary maintenance practices and ideologies are feminised in the Peruvian altiplano. The analysis focuses on the semiotic regimentation of Indigenous ethnolinguistic boundaries, concentrating on the role of four Indigenous female figures: the Indigenous wife; the Indigenous female market vendor; the reimagined mythic Indigenous fou…
Under one roof: Material changes and familial estrangement in Puno, Peru
Traditional, Indigenous houses in Puno, Peru, were built using adobe bricks, stone, and wood. Today, young Indigenous couples are building houses that utilize modern materials such as concrete, brick, and steel. In this paper, I analyze the effects that changing materialities of house construction practices have on the durability and breadth of kin-relationships in Puno . I argue that these changes are possible due to the kind of personhood that …
Toward Resolute Futures? Trans and Nonbinary Linguistics in and for Our World Today
New Speakers for Established Listeners: Multilingual Regimentation for the Global Listening Subject in Peru
This article explores how institutionalized Indigenous language education practices perpetuate relationships of coloniality by regimenting the legibility of Indigenous linguistic knowledge in relation to the figure of a privileged, non‐Indigenous, listening subject. I analyze heritage Quechua‐ and Aymara‐language teaching practices in a secondary school program in the regional capital of Puno, Peru. My analysis of the practices and comments assoc…
Coalitions of Care and Persistent Refusal
In this welcome editorial, we thank our predecessors and set forth our own vision as new editors of Gender and Language. We acknowledge the contexts and constraints that require us to lead and navigate the journal through a politically fraught and fragmented world that persists in its enmity towards those it marginalizes and minoritizes. As scholars working across different disciplines in language, gender, and sexuality studies, we take up the ma…
Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works)