Priya Swamy
Biographic Data
| ID | 89458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priya Swamy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priya |
| FAMILY NAME | Swamy |
| SIGNATURE | SWAMY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Embodiments of bitter narratives: Constructing possible Indo-Caribbean identities through the karela
This critical conversation between multidisciplinary artist Sarojini Lewis and curator Priya Swamy explores the possibilities of exhibiting and telling histories of Indian indentured labour otherwise. Focusing on the installation Why Do You Have a Face Like a Sopropo? (Worldmuseum Rotterdam, 2020), Lewis details why and how she sees a bitter, resilient and uniquely shaped vegetable like bitter gourd (‘karela’ in Hindi, ‘sopropo’ in Sranang Tongo)…
Mobility, Adaptability, and Accessibility: “Cute” Hanumān Figures Among Surinamese Hindu Children in The Netherlands
Neo-Hindutva affective economies: Feelings of pride and offense among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands
This article contests the role that India as a ‘motherland’ plays in the circulation of neo-Hindutva sentiments by exploring the relationship between reterritorialisation, affect and citizenship identities among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands. Following Jones (2016, 2014), this article posits that Surinamese Hindu citizens are ‘conditional’, which causes some community actors to strategically reterritorialise Hindu practices and identity as…
Valuing flexible citizenship: Producing Surinamese Hindu citizens at a primary school in The Hague
This article is an ethnographic exploration of flexible cultural citizenship among a Surinamese Hindu community in the Netherlands. Rather than focus on the relationship between mobility and transnationalism, it revisits the notion of cultural flexibility in order to demonstrate how diasporic actors belonging to a transnational moral community construct their position as model citizens. This includes an appeal to aspects of difference rather than…
Neo-Hindutva affective economies: Feelings of pride and offense among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands
This article contests the role that India as a ‘motherland’ plays in the circulation of neo-Hindutva sentiments by exploring the relationship between reterritorialisation, affect and citizenship identities among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands. Following Jones (2016, 2014), this article posits that Surinamese Hindu citizens are ‘conditional’, which causes some community actors to strategically reterritorialise Hindu practices and identity as…
Embodiments of bitter narratives: Constructing possible Indo-Caribbean identities through the karela
This critical conversation between multidisciplinary artist Sarojini Lewis and curator Priya Swamy explores the possibilities of exhibiting and telling histories of Indian indentured labour otherwise. Focusing on the installation Why Do You Have a Face Like a Sopropo? (Worldmuseum Rotterdam, 2020), Lewis details why and how she sees a bitter, resilient and uniquely shaped vegetable like bitter gourd (‘karela’ in Hindi, ‘sopropo’ in Sranang Tongo)…
Valuing flexible citizenship: Producing Surinamese Hindu citizens at a primary school in The Hague
This article is an ethnographic exploration of flexible cultural citizenship among a Surinamese Hindu community in the Netherlands. Rather than focus on the relationship between mobility and transnationalism, it revisits the notion of cultural flexibility in order to demonstrate how diasporic actors belonging to a transnational moral community construct their position as model citizens. This includes an appeal to aspects of difference rather than…
Valuing flexible citizenship: Producing Surinamese Hindu citizens at a primary school in The Hague
This article is an ethnographic exploration of flexible cultural citizenship among a Surinamese Hindu community in the Netherlands. Rather than focus on the relationship between mobility and transnationalism, it revisits the notion of cultural flexibility in order to demonstrate how diasporic actors belonging to a transnational moral community construct their position as model citizens. This includes an appeal to aspects of difference rather than…
Neo-Hindutva affective economies: Feelings of pride and offense among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands
This article contests the role that India as a ‘motherland’ plays in the circulation of neo-Hindutva sentiments by exploring the relationship between reterritorialisation, affect and citizenship identities among Surinamese Hindus in the Netherlands. Following Jones (2016, 2014), this article posits that Surinamese Hindu citizens are ‘conditional’, which causes some community actors to strategically reterritorialise Hindu practices and identity as…
Mobility, Adaptability, and Accessibility: “Cute” Hanumān Figures Among Surinamese Hindu Children in The Netherlands
Embodiments of bitter narratives: Constructing possible Indo-Caribbean identities through the karela
This critical conversation between multidisciplinary artist Sarojini Lewis and curator Priya Swamy explores the possibilities of exhibiting and telling histories of Indian indentured labour otherwise. Focusing on the installation Why Do You Have a Face Like a Sopropo? (Worldmuseum Rotterdam, 2020), Lewis details why and how she sees a bitter, resilient and uniquely shaped vegetable like bitter gourd (‘karela’ in Hindi, ‘sopropo’ in Sranang Tongo)…
Socioeconomic Development in Asia (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Appeal (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)