Malavika Reddy
Biographic Data
| ID | 95230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malavika Reddy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malavika |
| FAMILY NAME | Reddy |
| SIGNATURE | REDDY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Anthropology Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0718-7790 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A sovereign atmosphere
In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors descr…
Wishful performativity
From the perspective of a legal aid clinic that works with foreign workers in Mae Sot, Thailand, this article explores how the project of extending legal rights to migrants is structured by tensions between the ideals of translation - what translation should be, who ought to conduct it, and how its efficacy might be imagined - and the various ways in which translation actually occurs. Analysis of these tensions reveals three aspects of the lingui…
Identity Paper/Work/s and the Unmaking of Legal Status in Mae Sot, Thailand
Arguing for renewed attention to legal status as a problem of material forms and the practices around them, this paper builds, from an examination of documents in use, a theory of how competing notions of personhood shape legal status for Burmese people in Mae Sot, Thailand. It finds that there exist in Mae Sot two modes of documentary practice through which the legal status of Burmese people is apprehended. "Modes of documentary practice" refer …
Identity Paper/Work/s and the Unmaking of Legal Status in Mae Sot, Thailand
Arguing for renewed attention to legal status as a problem of material forms and the practices around them, this paper builds, from an examination of documents in use, a theory of how competing notions of personhood shape legal status for Burmese people in Mae Sot, Thailand. It finds that there exist in Mae Sot two modes of documentary practice through which the legal status of Burmese people is apprehended. "Modes of documentary practice" refer …
Wishful performativity
From the perspective of a legal aid clinic that works with foreign workers in Mae Sot, Thailand, this article explores how the project of extending legal rights to migrants is structured by tensions between the ideals of translation - what translation should be, who ought to conduct it, and how its efficacy might be imagined - and the various ways in which translation actually occurs. Analysis of these tensions reveals three aspects of the lingui…
Identity Paper/Work/s and the Unmaking of Legal Status in Mae Sot, Thailand
Arguing for renewed attention to legal status as a problem of material forms and the practices around them, this paper builds, from an examination of documents in use, a theory of how competing notions of personhood shape legal status for Burmese people in Mae Sot, Thailand. It finds that there exist in Mae Sot two modes of documentary practice through which the legal status of Burmese people is apprehended. "Modes of documentary practice" refer …
Wishful performativity
From the perspective of a legal aid clinic that works with foreign workers in Mae Sot, Thailand, this article explores how the project of extending legal rights to migrants is structured by tensions between the ideals of translation - what translation should be, who ought to conduct it, and how its efficacy might be imagined - and the various ways in which translation actually occurs. Analysis of these tensions reveals three aspects of the lingui…
A sovereign atmosphere
In 2018 and 2019, the Bureau of the Royal Household sponsored a festival in Bangkok called Love and Warmth at Winter's End. Framed as a gift to the Thai people from the then uncrowned King Vajiralongkorn, the free event immersed visitors in vintage imagery and experiences sympathetic to royal absolutism, recruiting visitors to experience as pleasant a past era in which the Thai king's power was absolute. Through an analysis of what visitors descr…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Art (1 work)