Binod Mishra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87361 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Binod Mishra |
| PRENOMES | Binod |
| SOBRENOME | Mishra |
| ASSINATURA | MISHRA B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2364-6405 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Representations of Care
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Silenced tusks, oppressed veils
Indira Goswami's novel The Moth-Eaten Howdah of the Tusker, initially written in Assamese as Dontal Hatir Une Khowa Howdah, is a powerful and searing exploration of the complexities of early twentieth-century Assamese society. It meditates on the intersection of gender, power, religion, tradition, ecology, and the decay of traditional social structures. Set in the Kamrup district of Assam, the novel portrays the lives of Brahmin girls and widows …
Blood, sugar, and survival
Joanne G. Joseph is a South African journalist and author known for her extensive work with major broadcasters, including the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) News (1998–2009), eNews Channel (2009–2018) and Radio 702, owned by Primedia House (2018–2020). Her novel, Children of Sugarcane (2021), highlights the forgotten stories of Indian indentured labourers in South Africa. Joseph’s storytelling immerses readers in the lived experien…
The semiotics of power
“It’s All in the Mind”
This study will focus on the main characters from Sarnath Banerjee's graphic novel "Corridor" (2004) and analyze their personalities' significant facets. The tale depicts the routine urban existence in the city of Delhi. Banerjee's use of the non-linear fragmented form of storytelling, in which a short fiction (or stories) is inserted into a longer narrative at multiple levels, is an example of a technique known as "a story inside a story." Thus,…
A Review of Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence
During the COVID-19 lockdown, a group of writers from an online magazine community, Café Dissensus, came forward to develop on the growing readership virally directed towards a niche genre of outbreak narratives. The first online issue released in 2021 under the editorship of Nishi Pulugurtha was sooner improvised and made available in print format in 2023 as Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence. The collection is dedic…
Censorship and time
In 2015, the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), the apex body for film certification in India, dictated that the makers of the James Bond film Spectre (Mendes, 2015) trim the length of a k
Care and Vulnerability in Liminal Spaces
In this article, we address the nuanced treatises on care in light of Namita Gokhale’s The Blind Matriarch (2021) . With the aim of liberating care from its archaic association with feminine attributes and unidirectional dependency, we politicise and situate it alongside universal and continuous vulnerability (Butler, 2009), affecting and assorting human precariousness. Our understanding of care as a discourse entails an investigation of human an…
Fragmented narratives and neurological echoes
Healing in intercorporeal harmony
Locating Indigenous Meitei feminist counterspaces in Linthoi Chanu’s Wari
This article explores the animist socio-cultural fabric of the Indigenous Meitei community in Manipur, India, to locate the feminist counterspaces embedded within it through a (con)textual analysis of two short stories from the anthology Wari (2019) by the Meitei author Linthoi Chanu. In this exploration, we conceptualize a distinctive praxis of Indigenous Meitei 'femanimism' – intertwining Indigenous Meitei feminism with animist philosophies. Fu…
What may be perceived by some as something quite fantastical is lived reality for us
(En)gendering Indian kitchen
Exploring Ecological Crisis
This article investigates Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), through the critical lens of ecocritical perspectives. It shows engagement with ecological ideologies that have informed our understanding of climate change. Khan’s novel enlists the devastating consequences of environmental and ecosystem degeneration and their cumulative effects on humanity, and the non-human world. Indeed, ecological degradation has become a global issue, whe…
The Anthropocene and Apocalypticism in Jeet Thayil’s Low
Jeet Thayil’s Low is based on the central theme of grief and agony, which the protagonist, Dom, faces after the sudden loss of his wife, Aki. In search of a haven, he runs to Mumbai, which mirrors the broken protagonist. Along with Dom’s struggle to find a clean water source to immerse Aki’s ashes, Thayil presents various major environmental concerns like pollution, global warming, the rising sea level, waste management, etc., which can be traced…
Imagining a New State
The famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the conditions of states in a capitalist and neocolonial world. Later theorists, like Hamza Alavi, critiqued state theorists and emphasized that state formation and nation-building in postcolonial societies differ from the Western understanding of the state. In today’s world, there is an extensive body of literature…
The Birth of the “Indian” Clinic
This article locates the clinic as a historically contingent space which faced cultural resistance and remained alien to the colonized population in India. It corroborates the socio-political tension in setting up a clinic within the colony and investigates how the Western clinic as a colonial apparatus was resituated as the “Indian clinic” per se. With the historical emergence of a new class of medical practitioners called “daktars” (a Bengali v…
Reading contemporary environmental justice
outcomes.This book is fundamental reading for those interested in environmental politics and how individuals interact with and shape the structures, norms, and outcomes of international negotiations
Otherized food, racialized bodies
Axone is a recently released Indian film revolving around Northeastern cuisine. Through culinary reimagining, the film raises several issues regarding Northeastern migrants who largely remain invisible in the public discourse. The present article attempts to examine the embodied experiences of the Northeasterners in the Indian capital, Delhi, through the analysis of the film from a culinary lens. Affirming the film's status as a food film, the ar…
Revolutionary Care
Re-membering plant personhood
The contemporary 'plant turn', driven by modern scientific researches into plant potentialities and a renewed philosophical appreciation of botanical lives within Critical Plant Studies, has spurred discussions about the attribution of personhood to plants. However, anxieties subtend the notion of plant personhood, for it being predominantly anchored in an anthropocentric paradigm of autonomous and embodied 'extrinsic' and 'intrinsic' properties …
Reimagining narrative of voices
This article studies the narratives of voices identifying the harrowing aftermath of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, and the representations of the contemporary effects of partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice Candy Man. The narrative unfolds past experiences through the eyes of different characters and surroundings from different social, political and religious backgrounds. The novel vividly portrays the horror of violence during the p…
From Consciousness to Unconsciousness
The purpose of the ‘Qala’ movie is to diminish the cultural cleavage of gender that predicates the superiority of one gender over the other. The articulation and repetition of notions of gender are culturally constructed and enacted through the formulaic association of things and thoughts with active social participation. These interactions are spooned with anxieties and sufferings that change the whole course of ‘Qala’, an eponymous character’s …
Care to Cure
In recent decades, the positions of patients have started deteriorating even after getting the right medication for the specific illness. To ponder this issue, the role of nursing cannot be overlooked. A recent Netflix-released movie The Good Nurse (2022), a crime-drama based on the book of the same name by Charles Graeber, delightfully exemplifies the perspective that, on the one hand, showcases the idiolatry and working professionalism of nursi…
Literature against fundamentalism
Otherized food, racialized bodies
Axone is a recently released Indian film revolving around Northeastern cuisine. Through culinary reimagining, the film raises several issues regarding Northeastern migrants who largely remain invisible in the public discourse. The present article attempts to examine the embodied experiences of the Northeasterners in the Indian capital, Delhi, through the analysis of the film from a culinary lens. Affirming the film's status as a food film, the ar…
Decolonial Re-existence through Animist Realism
Colonialism's deleterious impact on Indigenous epistemologies has engendered an exigent concern in the project of decoloniality, calling for a re-existence of marginalized cosmovisions. To accomplish this, an epistemic delinking from the paradigm of Eurocentric discourses is imperative in the interest of a comprehensive appreciation and recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems. In this vein, the present study employs the literary trope of anim…
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender
The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste as spatial, sensorial and corporeal, the article conf…
Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis focuses an expository spotlight on the marginalized voices that proliferate in large metropolises and that have been, to a large extent, imperceptible to mainstream academe. Thayil depicts the history of a section of Bombay’s underbelly that was an important nerve center in the drug business before the city’s name change to Mumbai. Although the great variety of drugs described in the novel helps set the overall tone, its …
Spectres of Caste/Contagion
The article critiques the traversal politics of caste and contagion through a critical dissection of what comes as a primarily biomedical excess of the outbreak—the dead body. It elucidates upon the becoming of the dead body into an untouchable where its “right to die with dignity” is deferred. The article reasons this stigmatisation of the deceased as a result of anxiety ensued in the living population facing the outbreak crisis. Through a close…
Environmental Casteism and the Democratisation of Natural Resources
Mainstream Indian environmental movements and academic environmental histories, embedded in casteism, have overlooked the inequitable distribution of natural resources, leaving the ecological crisis facing Dalits unaddressed in both scholarly discourse and public arenas. This study aims to scrutinise the casteisation of natural resources and Dalits’ socio-ecological precariousness in two Dalit self-narratives—Baby Kamble’s The Prisons We Broke an…
Transformations of the Liminal Self
This article examines how Tariq Ali's novel The Stone Woman (2000) attempts to deconstruct identity by blurring the self/other distinctions and sets the groundwork for hybridity wherein ‘otherness' emerges as a signifying process open to interpretation. The critical parameters of the study emerge from an investigation of the post-colonial context, suggesting in its process a displacement of the fixity of Manichean thought. Drawing upon Homi Bhabh…
From Consciousness to Unconsciousness
The purpose of the ‘Qala’ movie is to diminish the cultural cleavage of gender that predicates the superiority of one gender over the other. The articulation and repetition of notions of gender are culturally constructed and enacted through the formulaic association of things and thoughts with active social participation. These interactions are spooned with anxieties and sufferings that change the whole course of ‘Qala’, an eponymous character’s …
Care to Cure
In recent decades, the positions of patients have started deteriorating even after getting the right medication for the specific illness. To ponder this issue, the role of nursing cannot be overlooked. A recent Netflix-released movie The Good Nurse (2022), a crime-drama based on the book of the same name by Charles Graeber, delightfully exemplifies the perspective that, on the one hand, showcases the idiolatry and working professionalism of nursi…
Remapping Caste, Dalits, and Nature
This article investigates the workings of the caste system and its negative impact on Dalit lives and Nature as represented in Akhila Naik’s Bheda. Using the broad approach of ecocriticism, it focuses on ‘environmental casteism’ to assess various dimensions of caste discrimination meted out to the Dalits. It exposes the paradoxical underpinnings of the naturalisation of caste and varna system through which Dalits and various landscapes, water bod…
Andaman Island and the Historicity of Colonial Violence
This study engages with the historical understanding of colonial violence followed by environmental disasters during World War II on Andaman Island. In the mid-twentieth century, the residents of Andaman Island were caught up in a battle between the British and the Japanese empires. These colonisers enslaved the locals, grabbed their land, and pillaged the natural resources. Instead of learning from the indigenous people who had established a com…
Politics of Representation
This article takes a feminist viewpoint to highlight the lives and religious identities of Muslim women who are victims of pervasive negative perceptions of imperialist discourses and restrictive cultural practices of native males. We intend to investigate the practicability of empowerment conferred by feminism in redefining their subjectivity as represented in Tariq Ali’s Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree (1991) and The Book of Saladin (1998). Dra…
Untouchables in Love
The present article aims at analysing the revolutionary function of love in Marathi filmmaker Nagraj Manjule’s (b. 1978) selected feature films. The first two of Manjule’s feature films are set in a society ingrained in the vicious circle of the caste system. Fandry (2013) portrays the one-sided love story of a boy, and Sairat (2016) is based on the heart-rending story of Honour Killing in a realized love relationship between a lower-caste boy an…
Gendered cooking and Indian marriages
Cooking and women share a discursive relationship in Indian social and cultural spheres. The culinary practices of women not only reflect the gender norms prevalent in Indian society but also in Indian marriages. Marriage as a social institution in India adheres to the protocols of gender relations that regulate the culinary activities of married women in the domestic sphere. The present article attempts to unveil the politics of gender working o…
Decolonial Re-existence through Animist Realism
Colonialism's deleterious impact on Indigenous epistemologies has engendered an exigent concern in the project of decoloniality, calling for a re-existence of marginalized cosmovisions. To accomplish this, an epistemic delinking from the paradigm of Eurocentric discourses is imperative in the interest of a comprehensive appreciation and recognition of Indigenous knowledge systems. In this vein, the present study employs the literary trope of anim…
Odouring foodscapes, ordering gender
The article locates the caste-spaces in India through the sensoriality of smell emitted by food in different gastronomical zones and its influence on the socio-political condition of Dalit women. It focuses on the embedded olfactory value of food to inform the contested nature of the Indian caste system and enables an understanding of the gendered aspect of the caste-spaces. By examining caste as spatial, sensorial and corporeal, the article conf…
Exploring Ecological Crisis
This article investigates Uzma Aslam Khan’s Thinner Than Skin (2012), through the critical lens of ecocritical perspectives. It shows engagement with ecological ideologies that have informed our understanding of climate change. Khan’s novel enlists the devastating consequences of environmental and ecosystem degeneration and their cumulative effects on humanity, and the non-human world. Indeed, ecological degradation has become a global issue, whe…
The Anthropocene and Apocalypticism in Jeet Thayil’s Low
Jeet Thayil’s Low is based on the central theme of grief and agony, which the protagonist, Dom, faces after the sudden loss of his wife, Aki. In search of a haven, he runs to Mumbai, which mirrors the broken protagonist. Along with Dom’s struggle to find a clean water source to immerse Aki’s ashes, Thayil presents various major environmental concerns like pollution, global warming, the rising sea level, waste management, etc., which can be traced…
Imagining a New State
The famous Miliband-Poulantzas debate between the Marxist theorists Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas gave a new way to understand the conditions of states in a capitalist and neocolonial world. Later theorists, like Hamza Alavi, critiqued state theorists and emphasized that state formation and nation-building in postcolonial societies differ from the Western understanding of the state. In today’s world, there is an extensive body of literature…
The Birth of the “Indian” Clinic
This article locates the clinic as a historically contingent space which faced cultural resistance and remained alien to the colonized population in India. It corroborates the socio-political tension in setting up a clinic within the colony and investigates how the Western clinic as a colonial apparatus was resituated as the “Indian clinic” per se. With the historical emergence of a new class of medical practitioners called “daktars” (a Bengali v…
Literature against fundamentalism
Reading contemporary environmental justice
outcomes.This book is fundamental reading for those interested in environmental politics and how individuals interact with and shape the structures, norms, and outcomes of international negotiations
Otherized food, racialized bodies
Axone is a recently released Indian film revolving around Northeastern cuisine. Through culinary reimagining, the film raises several issues regarding Northeastern migrants who largely remain invisible in the public discourse. The present article attempts to examine the embodied experiences of the Northeasterners in the Indian capital, Delhi, through the analysis of the film from a culinary lens. Affirming the film's status as a food film, the ar…
Revolutionary Care
Re-membering plant personhood
The contemporary 'plant turn', driven by modern scientific researches into plant potentialities and a renewed philosophical appreciation of botanical lives within Critical Plant Studies, has spurred discussions about the attribution of personhood to plants. However, anxieties subtend the notion of plant personhood, for it being predominantly anchored in an anthropocentric paradigm of autonomous and embodied 'extrinsic' and 'intrinsic' properties …
Reimagining narrative of voices
This article studies the narratives of voices identifying the harrowing aftermath of the 1947 partition of India and Pakistan, and the representations of the contemporary effects of partition in Bapsi Sidhwa's novel Ice Candy Man. The narrative unfolds past experiences through the eyes of different characters and surroundings from different social, political and religious backgrounds. The novel vividly portrays the horror of violence during the p…
“It’s All in the Mind”
This study will focus on the main characters from Sarnath Banerjee's graphic novel "Corridor" (2004) and analyze their personalities' significant facets. The tale depicts the routine urban existence in the city of Delhi. Banerjee's use of the non-linear fragmented form of storytelling, in which a short fiction (or stories) is inserted into a longer narrative at multiple levels, is an example of a technique known as "a story inside a story." Thus,…
A Review of Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence
During the COVID-19 lockdown, a group of writers from an online magazine community, Café Dissensus, came forward to develop on the growing readership virally directed towards a niche genre of outbreak narratives. The first online issue released in 2021 under the editorship of Nishi Pulugurtha was sooner improvised and made available in print format in 2023 as Literary Representations of Pandemics, Epidemics and Pestilence. The collection is dedic…
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