Seemin Qayum
Biographic Data
| ID | 98576 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seemin Qayum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seemin |
| FAMILY NAME | Qayum |
| SIGNATURE | QAYUM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York, New York, |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cultures of Servitude
Indian Ruins, National Origins
The Bolivia Reader
Male Servants and the Failure of Patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
This article considers questions of patriarchy, masculinity, and male servants in Kolkata's culture of servitude. Through narratives of men servants and women servants, the ''failure of patriarchy'' is analyzed, set against hegemonic patriarchal ideologies and hierarchies. Contextualization for these narratives was provided by extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata, including a survey of 500 middle-class households. When women servants narra…
Bolivia
"Bolivia: Reform and Reaction in the Hemisphere." NACLA Report on the Americas, 41(6), p. 3 Additional informationNotes on contributorsSeemin QayumSeemin Qayum is a member of the NACLA editorial committee, a scholar of Bolivia, and co-author, with Raka Ray, of Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).Sinclair ThomsonSinclair Thomson teaches Latin American history at New York Univer…
The Eye of the Storm
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSeemin QayumSeemin Qayum is an independent researcher on Latin America and India. She is co-editing The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, forthcoming) with colleagues in the United States and Bolivia, and is completing a book project with Raka Ray, Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India
Grappling with Modernity
This article explores the culture of servitude of Kolkata's (formerly Calcutta) respectable classes against the backdrop of their project of modernity. In societies with long and unbroken histories of domestic servitude such as India, the institution is central to understanding self and society. The relations of paid domestic work are intimately tied to the self-conscious evolution of a modern Indian elite. We highlight three premises with origin…
El siglo XIX
Este libro es resultado del Primer Encuentro Internacional de Historia sobre "El Siglo XIX en Bolivia y América Latina", organizado por la Coordinadora de Historia y el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA) el año 1994 en la ciudad de Sucre en homenaje postumo a Gunnar Mendoza. Dedicado al siglo XIX, por ser un período poco abordado en general por la historiografía de los últimos años, tuvo el propósito de analizar, con mayor profundidad y…
Grappling with Modernity
This article explores the culture of servitude of Kolkata's (formerly Calcutta) respectable classes against the backdrop of their project of modernity. In societies with long and unbroken histories of domestic servitude such as India, the institution is central to understanding self and society. The relations of paid domestic work are intimately tied to the self-conscious evolution of a modern Indian elite. We highlight three premises with origin…
Male Servants and the Failure of Patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
This article considers questions of patriarchy, masculinity, and male servants in Kolkata's culture of servitude. Through narratives of men servants and women servants, the ''failure of patriarchy'' is analyzed, set against hegemonic patriarchal ideologies and hierarchies. Contextualization for these narratives was provided by extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata, including a survey of 500 middle-class households. When women servants narra…
El siglo XIX
Este libro es resultado del Primer Encuentro Internacional de Historia sobre "El Siglo XIX en Bolivia y América Latina", organizado por la Coordinadora de Historia y el Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos (IFEA) el año 1994 en la ciudad de Sucre en homenaje postumo a Gunnar Mendoza. Dedicado al siglo XIX, por ser un período poco abordado en general por la historiografía de los últimos años, tuvo el propósito de analizar, con mayor profundidad y…
Grappling with Modernity
This article explores the culture of servitude of Kolkata's (formerly Calcutta) respectable classes against the backdrop of their project of modernity. In societies with long and unbroken histories of domestic servitude such as India, the institution is central to understanding self and society. The relations of paid domestic work are intimately tied to the self-conscious evolution of a modern Indian elite. We highlight three premises with origin…
The Eye of the Storm
Additional informationNotes on contributorsSeemin QayumSeemin Qayum is an independent researcher on Latin America and India. She is co-editing The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, forthcoming) with colleagues in the United States and Bolivia, and is completing a book project with Raka Ray, Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India
Bolivia
"Bolivia: Reform and Reaction in the Hemisphere." NACLA Report on the Americas, 41(6), p. 3 Additional informationNotes on contributorsSeemin QayumSeemin Qayum is a member of the NACLA editorial committee, a scholar of Bolivia, and co-author, with Raka Ray, of Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity, and Class in India (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).Sinclair ThomsonSinclair Thomson teaches Latin American history at New York Univer…
Male Servants and the Failure of Patriarchy in Kolkata (Calcutta)
This article considers questions of patriarchy, masculinity, and male servants in Kolkata's culture of servitude. Through narratives of men servants and women servants, the ''failure of patriarchy'' is analyzed, set against hegemonic patriarchal ideologies and hierarchies. Contextualization for these narratives was provided by extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata, including a survey of 500 middle-class households. When women servants narra…
The Bolivia Reader
Cultures of Servitude
Indian Ruins, National Origins
Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Hegemony (2 works) · History (2 works)