Khorana
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 45690 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Khorana |
| SOBRENOME | Khorana |
| ASSINATURA | KHORANA |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7273-1393 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Governing diversity through AI
Public service media are adopting artificial intelligence at a moment when diversity, equity and inclusion policies are increasingly politicised. Drawing on comparative qualitative research in the United Kingdom and Australia, this article examines how AI is embedded within Public Service Media governance and platformised audience infrastructures. We argue that AI operates not merely as a technical tool but as a cultural and institutional logic t…
Wronged
Family separation and Covid ‐19
COVID‐19 resulted in global restrictions on migration, with pronounced consequences in Australia, where the resettlement of refugees was significantly curtailed from March 2020. This research, comprising a third phase in an ongoing study on refugee settlement and integration, seeks to understand the broader implications of these restrictions on family separation and reunion among resettled refugees in Australia. Employing a mixed‐method approach …
Migrant Civic Practices in Times of Crisis
Given the increasing prevalence of contemporary intersecting global and local crises that impact migrants and discourses of migration, this collated issue offers a timely and important analysis that brings together scholarship of migrant civic practices in times of crisis. The special issue covers instances of migrant contributions in local and transnational communities during a global pandemic, as well as ongoing crises that are global in nature…
Running in the Family
This article presents and analyses findings from a pilot project in which seventeen young first- and second-generation migrants resident in metropolitan Sydney were interviewed about their environmental care practices. From this and other comparable studies, it theorises about the value of documenting and framing intergenerational migrant practices that may or may not be deliberately framed as 'environmentalism' as a form of civic practice workin…
Disinformation and calculated care beyond the Global North
This article explores what "care" looks like in the specific context of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers within the dominant discourse of humanitarianism. India and Australia are chosen for this comparative analysis because our aim is to emphasise multidimensional anti-Muslim alliances that are now in place in both contexts between the governments and official and unofficial media that influence humanitarian policies and practice. We argue that…
Interview on 'Mediated Emotions of Migration'
This discussion piece between Elaine Swan and Sukhmani Khorana contextualises Khorana's new book in her research trajectories in refugee and media studies, and also unpacks new directions in exploring social movements and how they intersect with the study of emotions and practices of anti-racism. Swan and Khorana share many similar interests in food and intercultural studies, and in critiques of organisational equity and diversity – this intervie…
Using Pregnancy and Parenting Apps and Social Media During Covid-19
This article reports on and analyses data from a situated and in-depth project on the experiences of six cisgender South Asian-Australian women/people who gave birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, negatively racialized women experienced barriers to health care and a lack of social support, which were further exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. International border closures in Australia combined with local mitigation st…
Diversity
The topic of ‘diversity’ in the context of the Australian media was once shorthand for the representation of cultural diversity on film and television screens and, to some extent, behind-the-scenes. This issue has not disappeared. Of late, it has been documented in a Screen Australia report (2016) and received attention from advocacy organisations and media institutions. At the same time, ‘diversity’ has also become a gateway to broader conversat…
Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
With the proliferation of food-based content on streaming platforms like Netflix and the decolonial turn in food studies, feminism and media studies, we see the emergence of programs that deviate from prior colonial tropes of food exploration. One such case study explicated in this article is Iranian-American writer and cook Samin Nosrat's Salt Acid Fat Heat, based on a popular and equally ground-breaking book of the same title by her. A close re…
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA
Resisting Hindutva in the digital Indian diaspora
The study of how ethnonationalists mobilize digital media is not matched in size by an investigation into the progressive activists digitally mobilizing against them. This is especially true in diaspora communities, which form the focus of this work. In this paper, we discuss diasporic online progressive activism against one form of ethnonationalism, Hindutva. Situating our argument in the context of the Indian Australian diaspora, we argue that …
Creative Frictions
"Creative Frictions: Arts Leadership, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Australia." Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(4), pp. 530–531
Covid-19 and the affective politics of congestion
This essay considers the post-COVID-19 debates over the level of migration to Australia to understand how the rhetoric of 'affective congestion' which is used for population management has changed. On the one hand, it demonstrates that the concerns of white bodies regarding congestion are taken more seriously by the political and media mainstream than those of new migrants. On the other, it shows that COVID-19 is bringing the injustice of this ap…
How to make arts-based interventions appropriate for young refugees
There is now a well-established tradition of using participatory research methods, of which arts-based interventions constitute an important kind, for working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. At the same time, literature on decolonisation, and how decolonial research frameworks can be applied to specific research contexts (such as migration and refuge in varied settings) is still emerging. Therefore, this article discusses the me…
Can producers and consumers of color decolonize foodie culture
In this paper, I examine the “Home Cooking” episode of Netflix series Ugly Delicious, and the “Toronto Truths with Foodies of Colour” episode of award‐winning Racist Sandwich podcast to uncover their mediation of a foodie and cosmopolitan person of color identity. By paying close attention to biographical details and the foregrounding of certain aspects of foodie and racialized identities, this paper addresses the question of performativity when …
Introduction
This special issue of Media International Australia responds to an increasingly visible trend in the performing arts and screen industry in Australia that has identified diversity as a valuable cultural phenomenon and urges greater representation and access to work in the media for Australians of diverse backgrounds. Studies undertaken by Screen Australia (2016), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2016), and Diversity Arts Australi…
Diverse Australians on television
This article delivers preliminary findings from a series of interviews with Australian migrant producers, directors and writers. With the increasing calls for diversity in the media generally, and on television screens specifically from a wide range of stakeholders (institutions like Screen Australia, advocacy groups and high-profile media personnel of colour), there is ample empirical evidence that our public and commercial broadcasters have a l…
Home and Away vs Netflix
This article presents findings from interviews conducted with first and second-generation Asian Australian audience members as part of a project on the histories of television and migration in Australia. The data presented here is (a) testament to the agency of migrants in choosing what to watch beyond what might be expected on the basis of primordial markers such as ethnicity, and shows that factors such as generation of migration and education …
Emotions in Late Modernity
Anti-rape media campaigns
This essay examines two cases of anti-rape media campaigns that originated in particular cultural contexts, but went viral online. The first of these is #ThisDoesntMeanYes campaign that began when four English women teamed up with renowned photographer Perou and hit the streets of London and snapped 200 women in their own clothing. The second is the It’s Your Fault video in which a group of Indian female comedians lampoon controversial comments b…
Self-distribution and Mary Meets Mohammad
Heather Kirkpatrick's Mary Meets Mohammad is a noteworthy case study of an Australian documentary feature that was not only privately funded, but one that was also used in unconventional community screenings and social media publicity to eventually get the attention of the mainstream media, distribution networks and human rights film festivals. In other words, it bypassed the local and international film festival exhibition route traditionally us…
Voicing Demands
Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transnational Contexts." Australian Feminist Studies, 30(83), pp. 102–103
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
The Political is Populist
Emerging literature on the rapid rise of 24-hour commercial news television in India in the last decade, as well as popular and editorial commentary on the above phenomenon, suggests that these channels are playing the role of mediators for the middle classes. While the news content is widely believed to be sensationalised for the sake of attaining higher ratings in an overcrowded and competitive market, political talk shows have turned into the …
Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony
Using Partha Chatterjee's insights on the formation of 'civil society' and how this is distinct from 'political society', this paper theorises the mobilisation of popular support via social media during the so-called 'anti-corruption movement' in India in 2011. It tracks the main themes of the civil society-led movement's Twitter feeds during two crucial phases of fasting by its self-proclaimed Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare. This highlights the mi…
How to make arts-based interventions appropriate for young refugees
There is now a well-established tradition of using participatory research methods, of which arts-based interventions constitute an important kind, for working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. At the same time, literature on decolonisation, and how decolonial research frameworks can be applied to specific research contexts (such as migration and refuge in varied settings) is still emerging. Therefore, this article discusses the me…
From 'De-wogged' Migrants to 'Rabble Rousers
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009–2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on dias…
Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world
Yash Raj Films is one of India's most successful film production studios with a massive global market. The influence of a powerful Indian diaspora provides film directors from the Bollywood stable of Yash Chopra (Yash Raj Films) with a wealth of international settings. These settings in turn provide a site for an assertive Indian nationalism based upon the adoption of cosmopolitan lifestyles. This paper examines three recent films, Khabi Kushi Kh…
Running in the Family
This article presents and analyses findings from a pilot project in which seventeen young first- and second-generation migrants resident in metropolitan Sydney were interviewed about their environmental care practices. From this and other comparable studies, it theorises about the value of documenting and framing intergenerational migrant practices that may or may not be deliberately framed as 'environmentalism' as a form of civic practice workin…
Can producers and consumers of color decolonize foodie culture
In this paper, I examine the “Home Cooking” episode of Netflix series Ugly Delicious, and the “Toronto Truths with Foodies of Colour” episode of award‐winning Racist Sandwich podcast to uncover their mediation of a foodie and cosmopolitan person of color identity. By paying close attention to biographical details and the foregrounding of certain aspects of foodie and racialized identities, this paper addresses the question of performativity when …
Asserting nationalism in a cosmopolitan world
Yash Raj Films is one of India's most successful film production studios with a massive global market. The influence of a powerful Indian diaspora provides film directors from the Bollywood stable of Yash Chopra (Yash Raj Films) with a wealth of international settings. These settings in turn provide a site for an assertive Indian nationalism based upon the adoption of cosmopolitan lifestyles. This paper examines three recent films, Khabi Kushi Kh…
Film festivals and beyond
In the last five years, Australian films centred on Indigenous characters, such as Ten Canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006), Samson and Delilah (Thornton, 2009) and The Tall Man (Krawitz, 2011) have been applauded for their sensitive engagement with traditional Aboriginal stories as well as with contemporary issues. While all three films premiered at Australian film festivals, received limited cinema releases, did the rounds of the international ar…
Prime Time Soap Operas on Indian Television
Shoma Munshi, 2010, Routledge, London, New York and New Delhi, 312 pp. (hbk), ISBN 978-0-415-55377-3 Shoma Munshi's study of the twenty-first century Indian soap opera, and five successful ones in
Orientalising the Emerging Media Capitals
This article foregrounds the manifestation of a contemporary Orientalist discourse in the global media sphere by reading the increasingly robust non-Western 'other' that is the Indian TV media through its remediation in the Melbourne-based paper, The Age. The particular institutions have been chosen due to the 'quality journalism' reputation of the latter outlet, and the frequency of references to the Indian media - particularly its numerous news…
Civil Society Movements and the ‘Twittering Classes’ in the Postcolony
Using Partha Chatterjee's insights on the formation of 'civil society' and how this is distinct from 'political society', this paper theorises the mobilisation of popular support via social media during the so-called 'anti-corruption movement' in India in 2011. It tracks the main themes of the civil society-led movement's Twitter feeds during two crucial phases of fasting by its self-proclaimed Gandhian leader, Anna Hazare. This highlights the mi…
Gender Mores on Indian Tv
While India's booming entertainment channels are often examined for their lifestyle content, the nation's equally vibrant English-language news networks can also be read as offering lifestyle-oriented content and advice. Talk shows of both the controlled panel debate and the more interactive studio audience discussion variety often veer into social commentary, particularly on issues pertaining to the transitioning social values of the middle clas…
Public Spheres and the Media in India
This themed issue of MIA highlights the complex nature of evolving, emerging, mediated public spheres in India, a large, imperfect democracy that is home to the most diverse mediated public spheres anywhere in the world. The history of the public sphere in India has followed a trajectory that is very different from - even at odds with - the history of this sphere as described by Habermas
The Political is Populist
Emerging literature on the rapid rise of 24-hour commercial news television in India in the last decade, as well as popular and editorial commentary on the above phenomenon, suggests that these channels are playing the role of mediators for the middle classes. While the news content is widely believed to be sensationalised for the sake of attaining higher ratings in an overcrowded and competitive market, political talk shows have turned into the …
From 'De-wogged' Migrants to 'Rabble Rousers
This article maps the trajectory of Indian migration broadly, and specifically to Australia, to first highlight the heterogeneity of the Indian diaspora, and second, to comprehend the impact of this heterogeneity on the homeland alongside recent events involving the diaspora, such as the highly publicised attacks on Indian students in Melbourne in 2009–2010. While there is abundant literature on the history of Indian migration, as well as on dias…
Self-distribution and Mary Meets Mohammad
Heather Kirkpatrick's Mary Meets Mohammad is a noteworthy case study of an Australian documentary feature that was not only privately funded, but one that was also used in unconventional community screenings and social media publicity to eventually get the attention of the mainstream media, distribution networks and human rights film festivals. In other words, it bypassed the local and international film festival exhibition route traditionally us…
Voicing Demands
Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transnational Contexts." Australian Feminist Studies, 30(83), pp. 102–103
Anti-rape media campaigns
This essay examines two cases of anti-rape media campaigns that originated in particular cultural contexts, but went viral online. The first of these is #ThisDoesntMeanYes campaign that began when four English women teamed up with renowned photographer Perou and hit the streets of London and snapped 200 women in their own clothing. The second is the It’s Your Fault video in which a group of Indian female comedians lampoon controversial comments b…
Emotions in Late Modernity
Can producers and consumers of color decolonize foodie culture
In this paper, I examine the “Home Cooking” episode of Netflix series Ugly Delicious, and the “Toronto Truths with Foodies of Colour” episode of award‐winning Racist Sandwich podcast to uncover their mediation of a foodie and cosmopolitan person of color identity. By paying close attention to biographical details and the foregrounding of certain aspects of foodie and racialized identities, this paper addresses the question of performativity when …
Introduction
This special issue of Media International Australia responds to an increasingly visible trend in the performing arts and screen industry in Australia that has identified diversity as a valuable cultural phenomenon and urges greater representation and access to work in the media for Australians of diverse backgrounds. Studies undertaken by Screen Australia (2016), the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (2016), and Diversity Arts Australi…
Diverse Australians on television
This article delivers preliminary findings from a series of interviews with Australian migrant producers, directors and writers. With the increasing calls for diversity in the media generally, and on television screens specifically from a wide range of stakeholders (institutions like Screen Australia, advocacy groups and high-profile media personnel of colour), there is ample empirical evidence that our public and commercial broadcasters have a l…
Home and Away vs Netflix
This article presents findings from interviews conducted with first and second-generation Asian Australian audience members as part of a project on the histories of television and migration in Australia. The data presented here is (a) testament to the agency of migrants in choosing what to watch beyond what might be expected on the basis of primordial markers such as ethnicity, and shows that factors such as generation of migration and education …
Covid-19 and the affective politics of congestion
This essay considers the post-COVID-19 debates over the level of migration to Australia to understand how the rhetoric of 'affective congestion' which is used for population management has changed. On the one hand, it demonstrates that the concerns of white bodies regarding congestion are taken more seriously by the political and media mainstream than those of new migrants. On the other, it shows that COVID-19 is bringing the injustice of this ap…
How to make arts-based interventions appropriate for young refugees
There is now a well-established tradition of using participatory research methods, of which arts-based interventions constitute an important kind, for working with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. At the same time, literature on decolonisation, and how decolonial research frameworks can be applied to specific research contexts (such as migration and refuge in varied settings) is still emerging. Therefore, this article discusses the me…
Resisting Hindutva in the digital Indian diaspora
The study of how ethnonationalists mobilize digital media is not matched in size by an investigation into the progressive activists digitally mobilizing against them. This is especially true in diaspora communities, which form the focus of this work. In this paper, we discuss diasporic online progressive activism against one form of ethnonationalism, Hindutva. Situating our argument in the context of the Indian Australian diaspora, we argue that …
Creative Frictions
"Creative Frictions: Arts Leadership, Policy and Practice in Multicultural Australia." Journal of Intercultural Studies, 43(4), pp. 530–531
Diversity
The topic of ‘diversity’ in the context of the Australian media was once shorthand for the representation of cultural diversity on film and television screens and, to some extent, behind-the-scenes. This issue has not disappeared. Of late, it has been documented in a Screen Australia report (2016) and received attention from advocacy organisations and media institutions. At the same time, ‘diversity’ has also become a gateway to broader conversat…
Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
With the proliferation of food-based content on streaming platforms like Netflix and the decolonial turn in food studies, feminism and media studies, we see the emergence of programs that deviate from prior colonial tropes of food exploration. One such case study explicated in this article is Iranian-American writer and cook Samin Nosrat's Salt Acid Fat Heat, based on a popular and equally ground-breaking book of the same title by her. A close re…
Celebrating 30 years of the CSAA
Disinformation and calculated care beyond the Global North
This article explores what "care" looks like in the specific context of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers within the dominant discourse of humanitarianism. India and Australia are chosen for this comparative analysis because our aim is to emphasise multidimensional anti-Muslim alliances that are now in place in both contexts between the governments and official and unofficial media that influence humanitarian policies and practice. We argue that…
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