Rashmi Sadana
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 177647 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rashmi Sadana |
| PRENOMES | Rashmi |
| SOBRENOME | Sadana |
| ASSINATURA | SADANA R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9119-0027 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Undoing borders, repairing selves
This article posits Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (2022) as a decolonial text. Engaging with Partition, the novel’s radical work lies in undoing the epistemic, political, and corporeal borders that structure colonial and nationalist modernities. Drawing on Walter Mignolo’s concept of “epistemic disobedience”, the article shows how Shree privileges shape-shifting, sand, and samadhi as ways of knowing beyond colonial/nationalist reason, while the…
Afterword
Anthropology at the Ends of the Lines
Slum Acts
Urban Transport and the Politics of Sensation in Delhi
The Delhi Metro has created a new sensory ecology of mobility, Rashmi Sadana argues in this multimedia essay on spaces of inclusion and exclusion in the modern city
We Are Visioning It
To what extent is Delhi's metro rail system a social leveler and a global emblem of middle-class modernity-in idea and practice? This essay illustrates how the language and aims of planning and infrastructural development achieve class-based goals in a city of deep social inequalities. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, the essay details architects' visions and work practices on the Metro, and how they interact with new forms of technocratic governance…
"At the "Love Commandos
Meeting runaway intercaste couples hiding in a safe house in Delhi led me to reflect on the kinds of mobility at work in their lives and in the city today. By highlighting the social and physical parameters of their mobility in a single ethnographic context, I argue that it is the quest for mobility rather than an expression of individual choice that is most significant about their flouting of social norms
Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India by Michele Friedner. New Brunswick
S anskritization
Sanskritization is a theory of social change advanced by the sociologist M. N. Srinivas in 1952 to describe how upward mobility occurs in India's caste society, previously thought to be static. It is the process by which lower caste groups attempt to raise their status and position within the caste hierarchy by emulating upper caste social norms, such as the adoption of vegetarianism and the worship of Brahminical gods. The theory of Sanskritizat…
The Cambridge companion to modern Indian culture
"India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and dail…
Two Tales of a City
Since the early 1980s, novels by Indians in English have become the site of a transnational publishing ‘boom’ made possible by the opening of Anglo-American literary markets to non-white writing. This essay begins by illuminating the disconnect between the postcolonial versus transnational framings of Indian English fiction. It shows how this literature has gone from being grounded in the politics of particular places to being framed as a de-terr…
A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience
We Are Visioning It
To what extent is Delhi's metro rail system a social leveler and a global emblem of middle-class modernity-in idea and practice? This essay illustrates how the language and aims of planning and infrastructural development achieve class-based goals in a city of deep social inequalities. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, the essay details architects' visions and work practices on the Metro, and how they interact with new forms of technocratic governance…
Two Tales of a City
Since the early 1980s, novels by Indians in English have become the site of a transnational publishing ‘boom’ made possible by the opening of Anglo-American literary markets to non-white writing. This essay begins by illuminating the disconnect between the postcolonial versus transnational framings of Indian English fiction. It shows how this literature has gone from being grounded in the politics of particular places to being framed as a de-terr…
A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience
"At the "Love Commandos
Meeting runaway intercaste couples hiding in a safe house in Delhi led me to reflect on the kinds of mobility at work in their lives and in the city today. By highlighting the social and physical parameters of their mobility in a single ethnographic context, I argue that it is the quest for mobility rather than an expression of individual choice that is most significant about their flouting of social norms
Afterword
A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience
Two Tales of a City
Since the early 1980s, novels by Indians in English have become the site of a transnational publishing ‘boom’ made possible by the opening of Anglo-American literary markets to non-white writing. This essay begins by illuminating the disconnect between the postcolonial versus transnational framings of Indian English fiction. It shows how this literature has gone from being grounded in the politics of particular places to being framed as a de-terr…
The Cambridge companion to modern Indian culture
"India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and dail…
S anskritization
Sanskritization is a theory of social change advanced by the sociologist M. N. Srinivas in 1952 to describe how upward mobility occurs in India's caste society, previously thought to be static. It is the process by which lower caste groups attempt to raise their status and position within the caste hierarchy by emulating upper caste social norms, such as the adoption of vegetarianism and the worship of Brahminical gods. The theory of Sanskritizat…
Valuing Deaf Worlds in Urban India by Michele Friedner. New Brunswick
We Are Visioning It
To what extent is Delhi's metro rail system a social leveler and a global emblem of middle-class modernity-in idea and practice? This essay illustrates how the language and aims of planning and infrastructural development achieve class-based goals in a city of deep social inequalities. Based on fieldwork in Delhi, the essay details architects' visions and work practices on the Metro, and how they interact with new forms of technocratic governance…
"At the "Love Commandos
Meeting runaway intercaste couples hiding in a safe house in Delhi led me to reflect on the kinds of mobility at work in their lives and in the city today. By highlighting the social and physical parameters of their mobility in a single ethnographic context, I argue that it is the quest for mobility rather than an expression of individual choice that is most significant about their flouting of social norms
Urban Transport and the Politics of Sensation in Delhi
The Delhi Metro has created a new sensory ecology of mobility, Rashmi Sadana argues in this multimedia essay on spaces of inclusion and exclusion in the modern city
Anthropology at the Ends of the Lines
Slum Acts
Afterword
Undoing borders, repairing selves
This article posits Geetanjali Shree’s Tomb of Sand (2022) as a decolonial text. Engaging with Partition, the novel’s radical work lies in undoing the epistemic, political, and corporeal borders that structure colonial and nationalist modernities. Drawing on Walter Mignolo’s concept of “epistemic disobedience”, the article shows how Shree privileges shape-shifting, sand, and samadhi as ways of knowing beyond colonial/nationalist reason, while the…
Sociology (6 obras) · History (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 obras) · Urban Planning and Governance (3 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras)