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Amit S. Rai

Researcher at Queen Mary University of London

Publications -  28
Citations -  927

Amit S. Rai is an academic researcher from Queen Mary University of London. The author has contributed to research in topics: Jugaad & Terrorism. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 27 publications receiving 850 citations. Previous affiliations of Amit S. Rai include Florida State University & The New School.

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Monster, Terrorist, Fag: The War on Terrorism and the Production of Docile Patriots

Jasbir K. Puar, +1 more
- 21 Sep 2002 - 
TL;DR: Puar and Rai as mentioned in this paper make two related arguments: (1) that the construct of the terrorist relies on a knowledge of sexual perversity (failed heterosexuality, Western notions of the psyche, and a certain queer monstrosity).
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India On-line: Electronic Bulletin Boards and the Construction of a Diasporic Hindu Identity

TL;DR: The Indian diaspora is being written through the lines of electronic bulletin boards as discussed by the authors, and these lines provide a space for South Asian Hindus to construct and contest iden-...
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Rule of Sympathy

Amit S. Rai
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Of monsters: Biopower, terrorism and excess in genealogies of monstrosity

Amit S. Rai
- 01 Jul 2004 - 
TL;DR: This article drew a history of monstrosity through overlapping discourses, tying the contemporary figure of the Islamic terrorist to the sexual and racial deviancy of what Michel Foucault termed the "Abnormals".