Anurima Banerji
Biographic Data
| ID | 84254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anurima Banerji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anurima |
| FAMILY NAME | Banerji |
| SIGNATURE | BANERJI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1023-7170 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by its contributing authors and calls attention to urgent agendas that are central to the current field of Indian dance studies. The volume highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance a…
Articulating method
Relational economic sociology (RES) has powerfully demonstrated the multiplicity of markets and the persistence of intimate social relations, lively cultural practices, and active moral contestations within them. Much of the literature’s intellectual project stems from Viviana Zelizer’s critique of ‘hostile worlds,’ namely the conceptualization of markets as universally homogenizing and determining forces of rationalization. This paper engages wi…
Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Persistence of Peenya
Since 1991, Bangalore has seen spectacular redevelopment through the political hegemony of real estate, IT and parastatals in local urban governance. The global city literature has demonstrated how gentrification and real estate redevelopment have been at the heart of such neoliberal urban transformation. Yet, the literature's roots in notions of ‘post‐industrial’ cities obscure a view of how industry remains a key part of contemporary global cit…
Dimensions and Dynamics of Sharing Dance in India
The award-wapsi controversy in India and the politics of dance
In 2015, a coalition of artists in India launched a protest against the ruling establishment, returning their awards to the government in response to a series of attacks on minorities and dissident thinkers that had remained unacknowledged or insufficiently condemned by the state. Known as “Award Wapsi” (award return’ in Hindi), this was notably the first artist action of its kind in independent India, with artmakers from diverse domains particip…
Dance and the Nation
An intimate ethnography
This essay delineates the pleasures, paradoxes, and predicaments of representing the South Asian dancing body in visual terms. While the racialized body is often regarded as a metonym of culture, the author proposes “an intimate ethnography” as a strategy of subverting the exoticizing impulse inherent in the dominant gaze. The artists offer new visions of dance that interrogate the naturalized links between the body and culture–suggesting ambigui…
An intimate ethnography
This essay delineates the pleasures, paradoxes, and predicaments of representing the South Asian dancing body in visual terms. While the racialized body is often regarded as a metonym of culture, the author proposes “an intimate ethnography” as a strategy of subverting the exoticizing impulse inherent in the dominant gaze. The artists offer new visions of dance that interrogate the naturalized links between the body and culture–suggesting ambigui…
An intimate ethnography
This essay delineates the pleasures, paradoxes, and predicaments of representing the South Asian dancing body in visual terms. While the racialized body is often regarded as a metonym of culture, the author proposes “an intimate ethnography” as a strategy of subverting the exoticizing impulse inherent in the dominant gaze. The artists offer new visions of dance that interrogate the naturalized links between the body and culture–suggesting ambigui…
Dance and the Nation
Dimensions and Dynamics of Sharing Dance in India
The award-wapsi controversy in India and the politics of dance
In 2015, a coalition of artists in India launched a protest against the ruling establishment, returning their awards to the government in response to a series of attacks on minorities and dissident thinkers that had remained unacknowledged or insufficiently condemned by the state. Known as “Award Wapsi” (award return’ in Hindi), this was notably the first artist action of its kind in independent India, with artmakers from diverse domains particip…
The Persistence of Peenya
Since 1991, Bangalore has seen spectacular redevelopment through the political hegemony of real estate, IT and parastatals in local urban governance. The global city literature has demonstrated how gentrification and real estate redevelopment have been at the heart of such neoliberal urban transformation. Yet, the literature's roots in notions of ‘post‐industrial’ cities obscure a view of how industry remains a key part of contemporary global cit…
Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Dance is a volume of original essays that consolidates novel research and contemporary analytical approaches to critical Indian dance studies from across the world. It explores new frontiers of scholarship suggested by its contributing authors and calls attention to urgent agendas that are central to the current field of Indian dance studies. The volume highlights key social and political dimensions of Indian dance a…
Articulating method
Relational economic sociology (RES) has powerfully demonstrated the multiplicity of markets and the persistence of intimate social relations, lively cultural practices, and active moral contestations within them. Much of the literature’s intellectual project stems from Viviana Zelizer’s critique of ‘hostile worlds,’ namely the conceptualization of markets as universally homogenizing and determining forces of rationalization. This paper engages wi…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Dance (4 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)