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Ketu H. Katrak

Bio: Ketu H. Katrak is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 651 citations.

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24 Jan 2022
TL;DR: Magelssen as mentioned in this paper investigates the role of performance in the 9/11 attacks, highlighting both the utility of the performance lens to the subject and the ways in which that language risks aestheticizing mass murder.
Abstract: This falling trajectory continues in chapter 6, “9/11, Flight, and Performance,” which rehearses the controversial ways in which the language of performance has been attached to the acts of Al Qaeda hijackers on 9/11. Beginning with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s widely reviled suggestion that the attacks were “the greatest work of art,” Magelssen recounts the efforts of several scholars in performance studies (including Anne Pellegrini, Rustom Bharucha, and Richard Schechner) to recognize the role performance played in the attacks, highlighting both the utility of the performance lens to the subject and the ways in which that language risks aestheticizing mass murder. Chapter 6 also continues the book’s engagement with tourism through a close look at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Doing so, Magelssen invites readers to interrogate the ways we make sense of trauma via metaphors and images of flight and falling. He elaborates this invitation in his conclusion, “The Face of God,” arguing that “the narratives of sublimity, of glory, of progress attending to the heavens and to the human plying of them start to become more specious the closer to the heavens our technology brings us” (143).

5 citations


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801 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examined how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the environment and explored the deep and durable relationship between government and subjectivity and showed how regulatory strategies associated with and resulting from community decision making help transform those who participate in government.
Abstract: This paper examines how and for what reasons rural residents come to care about the environment. Focusing on Kumaon, India, it explores the deep and durable relationship between government and subjectivity and shows how regulatory strategies associated with and resulting from community decision making help transform those who participate in government. Using evidence drawn from the archival record and fieldwork conducted over two time periods, it analyzes the extent to which varying levels of involvement in institutional regimes of environmental regulation facilitate new ways of understanding the environment. On the basis of this analysis, it outlines a framework of understanding that permits the joint consideration of the technologies of power and self that are responsible for the emergence of new political subjects.

622 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a didactic skit aimed at convincing rural people that they should consult doctors for their health problems or should feed oral rehydration solution to children suffering from diarrhea.
Abstract: Nepal is a predominantly rural nation: Most people live in villages and make their living as subsistence farmers. The Nepalese government, assisted by international donor agencies, administers projects directed at improving the conditions of life for these rural people. Images of villages and village life accompany the promotion of development ideals. Radio Nepal has actors playing the part of villagers in didactic skits aimed at convincing rural people that they should consult doctors for their health problems or should feed oral rehydration solution to children suffering from diarrhea. Schoolbooks contain illustrations of village scenes and talk about village life as they inform children about development programs. When development policy makers plan programs, they discuss what villagers do, how they react, and what they think. Together, these images coalesce into a typical, generic village, turning all the villages of rural Nepal into the village.

603 citations

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Abstract: Part 1 Muslim nationalism in China - a fourth tide: Qing Zhen - expressions of Hui identity state power and the evolution of an ethnonym the problem - who are the Hui? sociocultural diversity among the Hui three tides of Islam in China the fourth tide - ethnic nationalism in an age of nation-states. Part 2 Ethnographic research and the Chinese state: theoretical perspectives on Hui identity the rise of the nation-state and the invention of ethnicity Han nationalism and the creation of nationalities in China derivative discourses and Chinese traditional nationalism the ethnogenesis of the Hui - from Muslim to minority nationality the research - in search of the Hui the unity and diversity of Hui identity - four communities in flux. Part 3 Ethnoreligious resurgence in a northwestern Sufi community: a fundamentalist revivial in Na homestead? the rerooting of identity in Na homestead ethnoreligious roots the socioeconomic context local government policies and Na national identity truth within purity - expressions of Na identity. Part 4 Ethnic identity in Oxen Street - the urban experience: making Hui in the city - the urban problem Oxen street, an urban Hui enclave recurring texts in Oxen Street the socioeconomic context of Oxen Street Hui identity government policy and urban strategies the culture of purity - Hui identity in the city. Part 5 The other great wall - ethnic endogamy and exclusivity in a Hui autonomous village: ethnohistorical origins of a Hui autonomous village ethnic coherence and Changying identity Changying traditions of rural entrepreneurship ethnoreligious marriage traditions in Changying preserving purity through ethnic endogamy - ethnoreligious strategies and government policy in Changying. Part 6 Ethnic invention and state intervention in a southeastern lineage: no pigs for these ancestors - the memory of Muslim ancestry in Chendai the cultural basis for Chendai Hui identity socioeconomic factors in Chendai Hui identity ethnic identity and national policy - the \"Taiwanese Muslims\" public policy and ethnic revitalization in Chendai becoming ethnic in China purity within truth - Hui identity among southeastern lineages. Part 7 Conclusion - national identity in the Chinese nation-state: the people of the People's Republic - finally in the vanguard? the social life of labels objectified ethnonyms in the northwest the hardening of ethnonyms in the southwest \"sub-ethnic\" identities and the question of Han ethnicity the rise of \"united nationalities\" ethnic pluralism in Chinese society the dialectics of nationality policy and Hui identity ethnicity and nationalism in the People's Republic. Appendices: Hui Islamic orders in China a select glossary of Hui Islamic terms.

408 citations

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TL;DR: The first volume of Subaltern Studies as discussed by the authors was published in 1982, twenty-five years ago, and it was part of the editorial group that launched, under the leadership of Ranajit Guha, this critical engagement with Indian modernity from the standpoint of the subaltern classes especially the peasantry.
Abstract: Peasant Society Today The first volume of Subaltern Studies was published in 1982, twenty-five years ago. I was part of the editorial group that launched, under the leadership of Ranajit Guha, this critical engagement with Indian modernity from the standpoint of the subaltern classes, especially the peasantry. In the quarter of a century that has passed since then, there has been, I believe, a fundamental change in the situation prevailing in post-colonial India. The new conditions under which global flows of capital, commodities, information and people are now regulated - a complex set of phenomena generally clubbed under the category of globalization - have created both new opportunities and new obstacles for the Indian ruling classes.

330 citations