Paula Chakravartty
Biographic Data
| ID | 846605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula Chakravartty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravartty |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVARTTY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 336 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology
In this introduction, we argue that the political, socio-economic and ethical ramifications of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the complicity of institutional actors require a radical rethinking of the “facts” of colonial genocide as against the narrative of a liberal democratic international order. We offer a broad survey of the extant state of discussions about Palestine in the field at large and then turn to anti-colonial thinkers including the …
Cruel capitalism
This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the U.S. an…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
CCC and our collective futures
From Indenture to “Good Governance”
Contract substitution—in which workers sign one contract but end up working under another—is a common form of fraud faced by Indian low‐wage migrant workers working in the Gulf Cooperation Council states. This paper presents a study of workers’ experiences of contract substitution alongside the eMigrate system, which is a digital registration system introduced by the Indian government in 2015. While a stated aim of eMigrate is to protect workers …
CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms
Journal Article #CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms Get access Paula Chakravartty Paula Chakravartty Gallatin and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, New York, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 270–274, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa018 Published: 21 Ap…
The disavowal of race in communication theory
Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging conceptual and theoretical legacies of racial apartheid and modern European and American imperialism. Treating syllabi as a discourse which powerfully represents the field to future scholars, and graduate classrooms as sites of power, we assess foundational theoretical pedagogy through an examination of syllabi from required doctoral seminars across sixteen …
CommunicationSoWhite
Racial inequalities and the colonial legacies of White supremacy permeate scholarly and public discussions today. As part of an ongoing movement to decenter White masculinity as the normative core of scholarly inquiry, this paper is meant as a preliminary intervention. By coding and analyzing the racial composition of primary authors of both articles and citations in journals between 1990–2016, we find that non-White scholars continue to be under…
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
Mr. Modi Goes to Delhi
This essay introduces the theme of the special issue. While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the …
Entrepreneurial Justice
In their survey of management literature, Boltanski and Chiapello (2005) Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. 2005. The new spirit of capitalism, London, , UK: Verso. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] argue that the 1990s signal a new phase in the spirit of capitalism. We consider how these counter-cultural transformations that shaped new management thinking in Europe and North America traveled to places such as India, where neo-liberal economic reforms l…
Media Pluralism Redux
A new form of "entertaining news," accessed by most through television, has become a privileged domain of politics for the first time in countries "beyond the West" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. What are the political consequences of this development: What is the relationship between media and politics in these regions? We answer these questions through a case study of India, the world's largest democracy, where two decades of media expan…
Changing with The Times of India (Bangalore)
This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press and its interface with urban politics in India's best known high-tech centre, Bangalore. Print journalism remains a core feature of India's growing multi-media news field, and this article critically analyses the profound changes in the political role of news in the last two decades. The changing relationship between the dominant news media and the state in t…
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Communication Policy as Development: The View from the South Colonial Power and the Rule of Law The Nostalgia for NWICO in Retrospect Neoliberal Techno-Politics and Civil Society in the Era of WSIS Conclusion References
Making Our Media
Global Communications
Introduction Part I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple Modernities Chapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in China Chapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist Russia Chapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in Singapore Chapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European Un…
Modernization Redux
Media Policy and Globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
White-collar Nationalisms
The export of information technology (IT) services from India—including software programming and IT-enabled work such as call centers that handle human resources, financial services, customer services—has been growing exponentially over the past decade. Although the overall employment figures accounts for only a tiny fraction of the overall working population, the promise and potential for IT-related jobs loom large for globalized, urban, middle-…
Media policy and globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
Telecom, National Development and the Indian State
This article examines how the global discourse of ‘telecom for development’ has clashed with competing discourses that critique Western modernity in the context of the postcolonial Indian state and its changing relationship to science, the market and national development. I draw from recent postcolonial theories of the nation state in order to locate a historically rooted debate on the role of technology in national development, which, I argue, l…
Translating Terror in India
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
Media Pluralism Redux
A new form of "entertaining news," accessed by most through television, has become a privileged domain of politics for the first time in countries "beyond the West" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. What are the political consequences of this development: What is the relationship between media and politics in these regions? We answer these questions through a case study of India, the world's largest democracy, where two decades of media expan…
Mr. Modi Goes to Delhi
This essay introduces the theme of the special issue. While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the …
The disavowal of race in communication theory
Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging conceptual and theoretical legacies of racial apartheid and modern European and American imperialism. Treating syllabi as a discourse which powerfully represents the field to future scholars, and graduate classrooms as sites of power, we assess foundational theoretical pedagogy through an examination of syllabi from required doctoral seminars across sixteen …
Telecom, National Development and the Indian State
This article examines how the global discourse of ‘telecom for development’ has clashed with competing discourses that critique Western modernity in the context of the postcolonial Indian state and its changing relationship to science, the market and national development. I draw from recent postcolonial theories of the nation state in order to locate a historically rooted debate on the role of technology in national development, which, I argue, l…
White-collar Nationalisms
The export of information technology (IT) services from India—including software programming and IT-enabled work such as call centers that handle human resources, financial services, customer services—has been growing exponentially over the past decade. Although the overall employment figures accounts for only a tiny fraction of the overall working population, the promise and potential for IT-related jobs loom large for globalized, urban, middle-…
Entrepreneurial Justice
In their survey of management literature, Boltanski and Chiapello (2005) Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. 2005. The new spirit of capitalism, London, , UK: Verso. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] argue that the 1990s signal a new phase in the spirit of capitalism. We consider how these counter-cultural transformations that shaped new management thinking in Europe and North America traveled to places such as India, where neo-liberal economic reforms l…
Changing with The Times of India (Bangalore)
This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press and its interface with urban politics in India's best known high-tech centre, Bangalore. Print journalism remains a core feature of India's growing multi-media news field, and this article critically analyses the profound changes in the political role of news in the last two decades. The changing relationship between the dominant news media and the state in t…
Cruel capitalism
This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the U.S. an…
From Indenture to “Good Governance”
Contract substitution—in which workers sign one contract but end up working under another—is a common form of fraud faced by Indian low‐wage migrant workers working in the Gulf Cooperation Council states. This paper presents a study of workers’ experiences of contract substitution alongside the eMigrate system, which is a digital registration system introduced by the Indian government in 2015. While a stated aim of eMigrate is to protect workers …
Translating Terror in India
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Modernization Redux
Translating Terror in India
Telecom, National Development and the Indian State
This article examines how the global discourse of ‘telecom for development’ has clashed with competing discourses that critique Western modernity in the context of the postcolonial Indian state and its changing relationship to science, the market and national development. I draw from recent postcolonial theories of the nation state in order to locate a historically rooted debate on the role of technology in national development, which, I argue, l…
Media Policy and Globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
White-collar Nationalisms
The export of information technology (IT) services from India—including software programming and IT-enabled work such as call centers that handle human resources, financial services, customer services—has been growing exponentially over the past decade. Although the overall employment figures accounts for only a tiny fraction of the overall working population, the promise and potential for IT-related jobs loom large for globalized, urban, middle-…
Media policy and globalization
This book is an account of issues that are central to the study of the field. It moves beyond the 'specifics' of regulation, by examining policy areas that have proved to be of common concern for societies across different socio-economic realities. It also seeks to address profound gaps in the study of policy by demonstrating the centrality of historical, social and political context in debates that may appear solely technical or economistic. Med…
Global Communications
Introduction Part I: The State and Communication Politics in Multiple Modernities Chapter 1: Neoliberal Strategies, Socialist Legacies: Communication and State Transformation in China Chapter 2: Media, State, and Responses to Globalization: The Case of Post-Communist Russia Chapter 3: Regional Crisis, Personal Solutions: The Media's Role in Securing Neoliberal Hegemony in Singapore Chapter 4: Governance and Legitimacy: The Case of the European Un…
Modernization Redux
Postcolonial Media Policy Under the Long Shadow of Empire
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Communication Policy as Development: The View from the South Colonial Power and the Rule of Law The Nostalgia for NWICO in Retrospect Neoliberal Techno-Politics and Civil Society in the Era of WSIS Conclusion References
Making Our Media
Changing with The Times of India (Bangalore)
This article examines the changing relationship between the elite English-language press and its interface with urban politics in India's best known high-tech centre, Bangalore. Print journalism remains a core feature of India's growing multi-media news field, and this article critically analyses the profound changes in the political role of news in the last two decades. The changing relationship between the dominant news media and the state in t…
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt
Accumulation, Dispossession, and Debt:The Racial Logic of Global Capitalism-An Introduction Paula Chakravartty (bio) and Denise Ferreira da Silva (bio) I could feel the knife in my hand, still slippery with perspiration. A Slave was a slave. Anything could be done to her. And Rufus was Rufus-erratic, alternately generous and vicious. I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover . . . …
Entrepreneurial Justice
In their survey of management literature, Boltanski and Chiapello (2005) Boltanski, L. and Chiapello, E. 2005. The new spirit of capitalism, London, , UK: Verso. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar] argue that the 1990s signal a new phase in the spirit of capitalism. We consider how these counter-cultural transformations that shaped new management thinking in Europe and North America traveled to places such as India, where neo-liberal economic reforms l…
Media Pluralism Redux
A new form of "entertaining news," accessed by most through television, has become a privileged domain of politics for the first time in countries "beyond the West" in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. What are the political consequences of this development: What is the relationship between media and politics in these regions? We answer these questions through a case study of India, the world's largest democracy, where two decades of media expan…
Mr. Modi Goes to Delhi
This essay introduces the theme of the special issue. While elections across the globe today are mediated in the sense of being pervaded by the ambient presence and explicit deployments of varied media, the Indian national elections of 2014 showcase a specific logic of mediated populism that has become globally influential of late. To understand this logic, we examine the contexts and lineages of the present moment of mediated populism, i.e. the …
Infrastructures of empire
The Arab Uprisings of 2011 can be seen as a turning point for media and information studies scholars, many of whom newly discovered the region as a site for theories of digital media and social transformation. This work has argued that digital media technologies fuel or transform political change through new networked publics, new forms of connective action cultivating liberal democratic values. These works have, surprisingly, little to say about…
CommunicationSoWhite
Racial inequalities and the colonial legacies of White supremacy permeate scholarly and public discussions today. As part of an ongoing movement to decenter White masculinity as the normative core of scholarly inquiry, this paper is meant as a preliminary intervention. By coding and analyzing the racial composition of primary authors of both articles and citations in journals between 1990–2016, we find that non-White scholars continue to be under…
CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms
Journal Article #CommunicationSoWhite in the Age of Ultra-Nationalisms Get access Paula Chakravartty Paula Chakravartty Gallatin and the Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University, New York, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Communication, Culture and Critique, Volume 13, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 270–274, https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcaa018 Published: 21 Ap…
The disavowal of race in communication theory
Here, we consider how graduate education in communication fares when it comes to engaging conceptual and theoretical legacies of racial apartheid and modern European and American imperialism. Treating syllabi as a discourse which powerfully represents the field to future scholars, and graduate classrooms as sites of power, we assess foundational theoretical pedagogy through an examination of syllabi from required doctoral seminars across sixteen …
From Indenture to “Good Governance”
Contract substitution—in which workers sign one contract but end up working under another—is a common form of fraud faced by Indian low‐wage migrant workers working in the Gulf Cooperation Council states. This paper presents a study of workers’ experiences of contract substitution alongside the eMigrate system, which is a digital registration system introduced by the Indian government in 2015. While a stated aim of eMigrate is to protect workers …
CCC and our collective futures
Cruel capitalism
This article introduces a forum on “Media and Fascism” by reading tech oligarch and right-wing political operative Elon Musk as a nexus of international fascist tendencies. It notes contradictions in the affective promises of capitalism vis a vis the elimination of racialized and gendered state regulatory and social welfare functions and describes the role of violent repression in sustaining right-authoritarian political formations in the U.S. an…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology
In this introduction, we argue that the political, socio-economic and ethical ramifications of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the complicity of institutional actors require a radical rethinking of the “facts” of colonial genocide as against the narrative of a liberal democratic international order. We offer a broad survey of the extant state of discussions about Palestine in the field at large and then turn to anti-colonial thinkers including the …
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