Purnima Mankekar
Biographic Data
| ID | 93228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Purnima Mankekar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Purnima |
| FAMILY NAME | Mankekar |
| SIGNATURE | MANKEKAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 263 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: Hidden Histories and the Scrambled Temporalities of Political Affect
In this article, I employ perspectives from media archaeology and genealogical analysis to examine the role of algorithms in creating political affect. I am concerned with the role of algorithms in generating, and not simply archiving, action. Algorithmic archaeologies enable us to track histories that are often forgotten or disavowed. Many of these histories are tied to empire, conquest, and warfare; some are intimately imbricated with prior for…
Affective Sovereignties: Mobility, Emplacement, Potentiality
Love Jihad,” digital affect, and feminist critique
In the face of the affective publics generated by online media, feminist critics have had to rethink our epistemological assumptions. This becomes particularly urgent when those of us who came of academic age during the heyday of postcolonial theory and poststructuralism confront political formations predicated on misinformation, disinformation, and “alternative facts.” In this essay, I draw on my larger project on digital affect to reflect on ho…
The missed period: Disjunctive temporalities and the work of capital in an Indian BPO
Business process outsourcing (BPO) industries providing customer service are characterized by three features: the product of labor is affect; affect is central to the labor process; and affect constitutes a crucial modality for the workers' subject formation. This affective labor is distinctive in that workers' connections to their customers are live, transnational, and interactive. Such BPOs constitute a form of capitalist production in which pr…
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry: The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture
Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has grown to employ 700,000 young people in India. These workers spend their nights interacting by phone and online with customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere. In this article, we focus on the affective dimensions of work in this industry. BPOs have led to contradictory outcomes such as upward mobility accompanied by precarity. Our …
Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers
By examining the affective regimes generated by call center workers in Bangalore, the authors argue that the forms of alienation and intimacy they generate are coimplicated, rather than in opposition, to each other. In contesting the presumption that the intimate is in contradistinction to the public, the authors join scholarly conversations that trace how relations of intimacy are constructed through processes of labor. This analysis of intimate…
Popular Culture
Mediated Childhoods
Delhi At Eleven is a collection of four films that brilliantly portray the myriad ways in which childhoods are mediated in the modern world. Set in Delhi, a city gasping its way through the twenty-...
Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India
Television and embodiment: A speculative essay
This essay brings insights from classic scholarship on television (for instance, Raymond Williams) and moving image culture (Vivian Sobchack) into conversation with recent studies of affect to trace how lifestyle programming on Indian television might have recast consumption in contemporary India. In particular, I am concerned with how theories of affect enable us to understand the creation of aspirational subjects in post-liberalization India. I…
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
lakaratne, have all been a pleasure to work with and have pushed her to clarify her intellectual arguments in productive ways
Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics
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Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India
DURING THE 1990s, THE INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERE witnessed a proliferation of representations of erotics.' Some of the eruption of the erotic into the public has been attributed to the expansion of transnational public culture, in particular the images, texts, and commodities flooding India after the liberalization of the economy. It has also been attributed to the advent of transnational satellite television-and here I refer not only to imported shows…
India Shopping: Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging
How do representations of 'India' shape the lives of members of a diasporic community, the identities they forge, and the politics they negotiate? This paper examines how grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area enable the construction of India and Indian culture, and argues that (1) Indian grocery storesin the diaspora form a crucial node in the transnational circulation of texts, images, and commodities between India and the diaspora; (2) t…
Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film
Research Article| August 01 1999 Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (3): 731–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-731 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cit…
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Entangled Spaces of Modernity: The Viewing Family, the Consuming Nation, and Television in India
To Whom Does Ameena Belong: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary India
This article examines the discourses of the Indian state and of community élites during battles for the custody of a young Muslim girl, Ameena, who was 'rescued' from a marriage with an elderly Arab. The battles for Ameena's custody were fought as much in news reports, opinion columns, and letters to the editor of metropolitan and vernacular newspapers, as in courts. Questions were raised about Ameena's age, the viability of her marriage, the app…
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. Sara Dickey
Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality
Diaspora 3:3 1994 Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality Purnima Mankekar Stanford University Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Karen Isaksen Leonard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 1. Narratives and Counternarratives of Identity Formation Opinion polls, articles, letters to the editor in newspapers and, more recently, political rhetoric reveal that ant…
National Texts and Gendered Lives: An ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian city
Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural contexts, interpret entertainment serials shown on Indian television. It then proceeds to explore the place of the viewers' active engagement with television in terms of their constitution as national and gendered subjects. [television audiences, sub…
Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing
Research Article| September 01 1993 Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing' Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-469 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
India Shopping: Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging
How do representations of 'India' shape the lives of members of a diasporic community, the identities they forge, and the politics they negotiate? This paper examines how grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area enable the construction of India and Indian culture, and argues that (1) Indian grocery storesin the diaspora form a crucial node in the transnational circulation of texts, images, and commodities between India and the diaspora; (2) t…
National Texts and Gendered Lives: An ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian city
Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural contexts, interpret entertainment serials shown on Indian television. It then proceeds to explore the place of the viewers' active engagement with television in terms of their constitution as national and gendered subjects. [television audiences, sub…
Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers
By examining the affective regimes generated by call center workers in Bangalore, the authors argue that the forms of alienation and intimacy they generate are coimplicated, rather than in opposition, to each other. In contesting the presumption that the intimate is in contradistinction to the public, the authors join scholarly conversations that trace how relations of intimacy are constructed through processes of labor. This analysis of intimate…
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry: The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture
Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has grown to employ 700,000 young people in India. These workers spend their nights interacting by phone and online with customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere. In this article, we focus on the affective dimensions of work in this industry. BPOs have led to contradictory outcomes such as upward mobility accompanied by precarity. Our …
Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India
DURING THE 1990s, THE INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERE witnessed a proliferation of representations of erotics.' Some of the eruption of the erotic into the public has been attributed to the expansion of transnational public culture, in particular the images, texts, and commodities flooding India after the liberalization of the economy. It has also been attributed to the advent of transnational satellite television-and here I refer not only to imported shows…
Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film
Research Article| August 01 1999 Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (3): 731–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-731 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cit…
Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing
Research Article| September 01 1993 Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing' Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-469 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
lakaratne, have all been a pleasure to work with and have pushed her to clarify her intellectual arguments in productive ways
To Whom Does Ameena Belong: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary India
This article examines the discourses of the Indian state and of community élites during battles for the custody of a young Muslim girl, Ameena, who was 'rescued' from a marriage with an elderly Arab. The battles for Ameena's custody were fought as much in news reports, opinion columns, and letters to the editor of metropolitan and vernacular newspapers, as in courts. Questions were raised about Ameena's age, the viability of her marriage, the app…
The missed period: Disjunctive temporalities and the work of capital in an Indian BPO
Business process outsourcing (BPO) industries providing customer service are characterized by three features: the product of labor is affect; affect is central to the labor process; and affect constitutes a crucial modality for the workers' subject formation. This affective labor is distinctive in that workers' connections to their customers are live, transnational, and interactive. Such BPOs constitute a form of capitalist production in which pr…
Entangled Spaces of Modernity: The Viewing Family, the Consuming Nation, and Television in India
Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality
Diaspora 3:3 1994 Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality Purnima Mankekar Stanford University Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Karen Isaksen Leonard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 1. Narratives and Counternarratives of Identity Formation Opinion polls, articles, letters to the editor in newspapers and, more recently, political rhetoric reveal that ant…
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: Hidden Histories and the Scrambled Temporalities of Political Affect
In this article, I employ perspectives from media archaeology and genealogical analysis to examine the role of algorithms in creating political affect. I am concerned with the role of algorithms in generating, and not simply archiving, action. Algorithmic archaeologies enable us to track histories that are often forgotten or disavowed. Many of these histories are tied to empire, conquest, and warfare; some are intimately imbricated with prior for…
Love Jihad,” digital affect, and feminist critique
In the face of the affective publics generated by online media, feminist critics have had to rethink our epistemological assumptions. This becomes particularly urgent when those of us who came of academic age during the heyday of postcolonial theory and poststructuralism confront political formations predicated on misinformation, disinformation, and “alternative facts.” In this essay, I draw on my larger project on digital affect to reflect on ho…
National Texts and Gendered Lives: An ethnography of television viewers in a North Indian city
Recent anthropological research highlights the significance of mass media in the construction of identities. This article focuses on the ways in which men and women, located in specific sociocultural contexts, interpret entertainment serials shown on Indian television. It then proceeds to explore the place of the viewers' active engagement with television in terms of their constitution as national and gendered subjects. [television audiences, sub…
Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing
Research Article| September 01 1993 Television Tales and a Woman's Rage: A Nationalist Recasting of Draupadi's 'Disrobing' Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (1993) 5 (3): 469–492. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-5-3-469 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon T…
Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality
Diaspora 3:3 1994 Reflections on Diasporic Identities: A Prolegomenon to an Analysis of Political Bifocality Purnima Mankekar Stanford University Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans. Karen Isaksen Leonard. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992. 1. Narratives and Counternarratives of Identity Formation Opinion polls, articles, letters to the editor in newspapers and, more recently, political rhetoric reveal that ant…
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India. Sara Dickey
To Whom Does Ameena Belong: Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary India
This article examines the discourses of the Indian state and of community élites during battles for the custody of a young Muslim girl, Ameena, who was 'rescued' from a marriage with an elderly Arab. The battles for Ameena's custody were fought as much in news reports, opinion columns, and letters to the editor of metropolitan and vernacular newspapers, as in courts. Questions were raised about Ameena's age, the viability of her marriage, the app…
Entangled Spaces of Modernity: The Viewing Family, the Consuming Nation, and Television in India
Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film
Research Article| August 01 1999 Brides Who Travel: Gender, Transnationalism, and Nationalism in Hindi Film Purnima Mankekar Purnima Mankekar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google positions (1999) 7 (3): 731–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7-3-731 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cit…
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
India Shopping: Indian Grocery Stores and Transnational Configurations of Belonging
How do representations of 'India' shape the lives of members of a diasporic community, the identities they forge, and the politics they negotiate? This paper examines how grocery stores in the San Francisco Bay Area enable the construction of India and Indian culture, and argues that (1) Indian grocery storesin the diaspora form a crucial node in the transnational circulation of texts, images, and commodities between India and the diaspora; (2) t…
Introduction: Mediated Transnationalism and Social Erotics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late Twentieth-Century India
DURING THE 1990s, THE INDIAN PUBLIC SPHERE witnessed a proliferation of representations of erotics.' Some of the eruption of the erotic into the public has been attributed to the expansion of transnational public culture, in particular the images, texts, and commodities flooding India after the liberalization of the economy. It has also been attributed to the advent of transnational satellite television-and here I refer not only to imported shows…
Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late Twentieth-Century India
Television and embodiment: A speculative essay
This essay brings insights from classic scholarship on television (for instance, Raymond Williams) and moving image culture (Vivian Sobchack) into conversation with recent studies of affect to trace how lifestyle programming on Indian television might have recast consumption in contemporary India. In particular, I am concerned with how theories of affect enable us to understand the creation of aspirational subjects in post-liberalization India. I…
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia
lakaratne, have all been a pleasure to work with and have pushed her to clarify her intellectual arguments in productive ways
Mediated Childhoods
Delhi At Eleven is a collection of four films that brilliantly portray the myriad ways in which childhoods are mediated in the modern world. Set in Delhi, a city gasping its way through the twenty-...
Popular Culture
Intimate Encounters: Affective Labor in Call Centers
By examining the affective regimes generated by call center workers in Bangalore, the authors argue that the forms of alienation and intimacy they generate are coimplicated, rather than in opposition, to each other. In contesting the presumption that the intimate is in contradistinction to the public, the authors join scholarly conversations that trace how relations of intimacy are constructed through processes of labor. This analysis of intimate…
Future tense: Capital, labor, and technology in a service industry: The 2017 Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture
Since its beginning in 2000, the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry has grown to employ 700,000 young people in India. These workers spend their nights interacting by phone and online with customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and elsewhere. In this article, we focus on the affective dimensions of work in this industry. BPOs have led to contradictory outcomes such as upward mobility accompanied by precarity. Our …
The missed period: Disjunctive temporalities and the work of capital in an Indian BPO
Business process outsourcing (BPO) industries providing customer service are characterized by three features: the product of labor is affect; affect is central to the labor process; and affect constitutes a crucial modality for the workers' subject formation. This affective labor is distinctive in that workers' connections to their customers are live, transnational, and interactive. Such BPOs constitute a form of capitalist production in which pr…
Love Jihad,” digital affect, and feminist critique
In the face of the affective publics generated by online media, feminist critics have had to rethink our epistemological assumptions. This becomes particularly urgent when those of us who came of academic age during the heyday of postcolonial theory and poststructuralism confront political formations predicated on misinformation, disinformation, and “alternative facts.” In this essay, I draw on my larger project on digital affect to reflect on ho…
Affective Sovereignties: Mobility, Emplacement, Potentiality
Algorithmic archaeologies and genealogies of hate: Hidden Histories and the Scrambled Temporalities of Political Affect
In this article, I employ perspectives from media archaeology and genealogical analysis to examine the role of algorithms in creating political affect. I am concerned with the role of algorithms in generating, and not simply archiving, action. Algorithmic archaeologies enable us to track histories that are often forgotten or disavowed. Many of these histories are tied to empire, conquest, and warfare; some are intimately imbricated with prior for…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (7 works) · Media studies (7 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works)