Research – School of Media and Cultural Studies, TISS

SMCS undertakes research in the following broad areas:

Film and Television Studies
Documentary Film and Media Representation
Media Censorship
Media Representation of Marginalised Groups
Urbanism, Gender and Public Space
Globalisation, Sexuality and Questions of Representation
Young Women and Feminism
Political Economy of Media
Participatory Media Democratic Decentralisation
Micro- Level Planning and Local Self Governance
Globalisation and its implications for culture
New Media and ICTs
Community Media
Digital Cultures
Regional Cinemas of India
Independent and Art Cinema
Popular Visual Culture
Film Production and Distribution
Transnational Film Cultures
Cinephilia and Film Festivals
Working class and media representations
Feminist Media Studies
Journalism Studies
Politics of Knowledge Production
Academic Mobilities
Research Cultures
Digital Cultures
Studies on Hindi Cinema

Books:

Anjali Monteiro, K.P Jayasankar, Faiz Ullah (Eds.), Many Voices, Many Worlds Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India, 2021, Sage
Anjali Monteiro, K.P. Jayasankar and Amit Rai (eds), DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India, Orient Blackswan, 2020.
Jayasankar, KP and Anjali Monteiro, A Fly in the Curry-Independent Documentary in India, Sage 2016

Phadke, Shilpa, (with Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade) ‘Why Loiter, Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets’, New Delhi: Penguin, March 4, 2011.

Papers in Books and Journals:

Harmanpreet Kaur, Review of Modernism by Other Means: The Films of Amit Dutta, by Srikanth Srinivasan in Studies in South Asian Film and Media, Vol 13, No 1, pp 59-62, Intellect Books, 2022
Shilpi Gulati, “Super Censorship of Cinema?” Economic & Political Weekly 56.31 (2021): 8. [ISSN – 0012-9976]
Nithila Kanagasabai, “Reversing the Gaze: Research from Afar” in Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 56, Issue No. 50, 11 December 2021, p. 65-66. https://epw.in/journal/2021/50/postscript/reversing-gaze.html
Nithila Kanagasabai, Going ‘Home’ to do Fieldwork in New Voices in Postcolonial Studies, 9 July 2021, p.16-21. https://newvoicespocostudies.wordpress.com/kanagasabai/
Faiz Ullah, Introduction: “Other Worlds Are Breathing” in Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar (eds), Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India, Sage (co-author), 2021 [ISBN: 978-93-91138-46-2]
Faiz Ullah, ‘Notes on the Political Economy of Community Media: The Self-organizing Power of Communities’ in in Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar (eds), Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India, Sage [ISBN: 978-93-91138-46-2]
Shilpa Phadke, Nithila Kanagasabai, Doing Feminist Community Media: Collectivising in Online Spaces, in Faiz Ullah, Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar (eds), Many Voices, Many Worlds: Critical Perspectives on Community Media in India, Sage (2021) [ISBN: 9789391138462]
Lakshmi Lingam, Smartphones, youth and moral panics: Exploring print and online media narratives in India. Mobile Media & Communication, Volume: 9 issue: 1, page(s): 128-148, 2021. (co-authored) https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157920922262
Lakshmi Lingam, Age of consent: challenges and contradictions of sexual violence laws in India. Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (co-authored) DOI: 10.1080/26410397.2021.1878656
Lakshmi Lingam, Feminist cooperative inquiry: Grassroots women define and deepen empowerment through dialogue. Action Research. September 2020. (co-authored) doi:10.1177/1476750320960807
Lakshmi Lingam, COVID-19, Physical Distancing and Social Inequalities: Are we all Really in this Together? The International Journal of Community and Social Development, 2(2), 173–190, July 2020 (co-authored) https://doi.org/10.1177/2516602620937932
Lakshmi Lingam, The Journey of a Southern Feminist and Close Encounters of Another Kind: Women and Development Economics by Devaki Jain. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 27(2), 321–325, June, 2020 (Book Review) https://doi.org/10.1177/0971521520911237
Lakshmi Lingam, Significance of public health ethics in the time of Covid-19 (Book Review) Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, May 18, 2020. https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2020.060
Harmanpreet Kaur, ‘At Home in the World: Co-productions and Indian Alternative Cinema’ in Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies, Vol 11 Issue 2, December 2020, Sage Journals
Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jayasankar, Mumbai Sub-versions: The Place of Affect in Digital Video Activism, in Monteiro, A. et al (eds) DigiNaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India, Orient Blackswan, 2020
Shilpa Phadke, Defending Frivolous Fun: Feminist Acts of Claiming Public Spaces in South Asia, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2020 DOI: 10.1080/00856401.2020.1703245
Shilpa Phadke, Isolated Bubbles: Reflections on Performing New Motherhood on Facebook. In Anjali Monteiro, KP Jayasankar and Amit Rai (eds.) DIGINAKA: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India, Orient Blackswan, 2020
Ullah, Faiz, Co-authoured Whose Free Wi-Fi Is It Anyway? Politics of Online Access and Rise of Digital Populism in Urban India in DIGINAKA: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India, 2020, Orient Blackswan
Ullah, Faiz, Say Something Do Something: Community Media and Social Change (in Hindi), 2020, Pratiman: Samay, Samaaj, Sanskriti, CSDS, New Delhi
Kanagasabai, Nithila, ‘Language, Little Magazines, and Local Feminisms: A Case Study of Magazine Cultures and the Localization of Feminist Articulations.’ In T. Holmes and M. Sternadori (Eds.) The Handbook of Magazine Studies, London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Inc., 2020 [ISBN: 9781119168096]
Kanagasabai, Nithila, Gajjala, R., Kaur, S., Ayyar, V. & Kandukuri, D. Dialogue Interlude: Centering Marginalized Feminists. In Gajjala, R. Digital Diasporas: Labor, Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics (pp. 91-108). UK: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2019. [ISBN: 9781783481156]
Lakshmi Lingam, Social Action Committees: Community Intervention to Reduce Gender-based Violence. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, doi:10.1177/0971521519861160, 26 (3), 263– 287, 2019. (co-author) [ISSN: 0971-5215]
Lakshmi Lingam, Women’s Work Participation and Maternity Protection Conundrum in India: Call for High-Priority Interventions. In R. Govinda and M. Poornima (Eds.), India’s Social Sector and SDGs: Problems and Prospects, London: Routledge, 2019
Shilpa Phadke (Co-author with Radhika Gajjala), Dialogue Interlude: #Why Loiter in Gajjala, R. Digital Diasporas: Labor, Affect in Gendered Indian Digital Publics, UK: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2019. Pp. 81-89. [ISBN: 9781783481156]
Simona Sarma and Anjali Monteiro, Cultural Production of ‘Invisible Privilege’: Critical Reflections on the Figure of Pratima Barua Pandey in Goalpariya Folk Music of Assam, Journal of Creative Communications, Volume 14, Issue 2, 2019.
Simona Sarma and Anjali Monteiro, Contemporary ‘Folk’ Dynamics: Shifting Visions and Meanings in the Goalpariya Folk Music of Assam, Folklore, 130:4, 331-351, 2019.

Ullah, Faiz, Digital Media and the Changing Nature of Labour Action in Delhi NCR, 2019, Television and New Media, Sage Journals
Kanagasabai, Nithila, ‘Gender and the Tamil Televisionscape.’ In M.P. Srinivasan (Ed.), Multiculturalism and the Social Fabric in Australia, America, & India, Chennai: Emerald Publishers, 2018. [ISBN: 9788179664964]
Kanagasabai, Nithila, ‘In the Silences of a Newsroom: Age, Generation, and Sexism in the Indian Television Newsroom.’ In J. Keller, J. Littler and A. Winch (Eds.), An Intergenerational Feminist Media Studies: Conflicts and Connectivities, London: Routledge, 2018. [ISBN: 9781138563483]
Kanagasabai, Nithila, ‘Possibilities of transformation: Women’s Studies in Tier II cities in Tamil Nadu, India’, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 39, Issue 5, 2018. pp 709-722. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1448702
Phadke, Shilpa, How to do Feminist Mothering in Urban India? Some Reflections on the Politics of Beauty and Body Shapes’ in Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism, ed by Rosalind Gill, Christina Scharff, and Ana Sofia Elias, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, p.247-261.
Ullah, Faiz, Co-translated Once There was a City Named Dilli (translation of Intizar Husain’s Dilli Tha Jiska Naam), 2017, Yoda Press
Nagesh, K V, Forked Tongue and the ‘taste of a place’: Understanding Media and Telangana (pp 79-95) in Nath and Dutta eds.Perspectives in Cultural Studies, Purbanchal Prakash, Guwahati, ISBN 978-81-7213-283-5
Kanagasabai, Nithila, ‘The Gendered Body in the Neoliberal Newsroom.’ In B.M. Pirani and T. Smith (Eds.). Embodiment and Cultural Differences, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. [ISBN: 9781443894678]
Kanagasabai, Nithila, In the Silences of a Newsroom: Age, Generation, and Sexism in the India Television Newsroom, Feminist Media Studies, 16(4),663-677, 2016
Phadke, Shilpa, (with Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade) ‘Invisible Women,’ in Index on Censorship, Vol. 42, Issue 40, 2013.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Unfriendly Bodies, Hostile Cities,’ in Economic and Political Weekly, September 28, 2013.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Feminist Mothering: Some Notes on Sexuality and Risk from Urban India,’ in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Vol. 36. Issue 1, 2013, pp.92-106.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Traversing The City: Some gendered questions of access in Mumbai,’ in Nihal Perera and Wing-Shing Tang (eds.) Transforming Asian Cities: Intellectual Impasse, Asianizing Space, and Emerging Translocalities, London: Routledge, 2013.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘But I Can’t Carry a Condom! Young Women, Risk and Sexuality in the Time of Globalisation,’ in Sanjay Srivastava (ed.) The Sexualities Reader: Oxford India Studies on Contemporary Society, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘The Gendered Usage of Public Space,’ in Lora Prabhu and Sara Pilot (eds.) The Fear that Stalks: Gender Based Violence in Public Spaces, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2012.
Phadke, Shilpa, “And When She Roared” in Westerly, Vol 56, No. 2, November 2011, pp. 43-47.
Monteiro A. and K.P. Jayasankar, ‘A New Pair of Scissors – the Draft Cinematograph Bill 2010,’ in Economic and Political Weekly, July 17, 2010.
Monteiro A. and K.P. Jayasankar, Imaging Mumbai,’ in Vimal Shah and Pankaj Joshi (eds.) Revisioning Mumbai, Mumbai: Asiatic Society, 2010.
Phadke Shilpa, ‘If Women Could Risk Pleasure: Reinterpreting Violence in Public Space’ in Bishakha Datta (ed.) Degrees of Justice: New perspectives on violence against women in India, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2010.
Jayasankar, K.P. and Monteiro, A., ‘Jai Ho Shanghai: The Invisible Poor in Slumdog Millionaire,’ in Kaldor, Mary et al (eds.) Global Civil Society Yearbook of the London School of Economics, 2009, London: Sage, 2009. Also reproduced in Mumbai Reader, UDRI, 2009.
Phadke Shilpa, (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan), ‘Why Loiter? Radical Possibilities for Gendered Dissent’ in Melissa Butcher and Selvaraj Velayutham (eds.) Cultural Resistance and Dissent in Asia’s Cities, London: Routledge, 2009.
Phadke, Shilpa (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan) ‘Who’s Having Fun’ in First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 5, New Delhi: Penguin, 2009, p.42-49.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Insider-Outsider: The Vexed Questions of Access to Public Space’, in Mumbai Reader ’08, Mumbai: UDRI, 2009, p.276-281.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘These Mumbai Streets…’ in Mumbai Reader ’08, Mumbai: UDRI, 2009, p.282-287.
Sawant Mukund, ‘Tendulkar School’ in Mukund Tanksale (eds.) Tendulkar Ase Tendulkar Tase, Mumbai: Majestic Publications, 2009.
Phadke Shilpa, ‘Dangerous Liaisons: Women and Men; Risk and Reputation in Mumbai’, in Economic & Political Weekly, Vol.42 No.17, 28, 2007.
Phadke Shilpa, ‘Re-mapping the Public: Gendered Spaces in Mumbai’, in Madhavi Desai (ed.), Gender and the Built Environment, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2007.

Monographs:

Monteiro, A. , Manual for Curriculum Enhancement, UNDP, Ethiopia, 2009

Other Publications:

Monteiro, Anjali, Book Review: The phobic and the erotic: the politics of sexualities in contemporary India, Culture, Health & Sexuality, Volume 12 Issue 3, 343, July 27, 2009.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Objects of Desire’ in India Today, December 7, 2009, pp.58-65.
Phadke Shilpa, (with Shilpa Ranade and Sameera Khan) ‘Entry Restricted: Open Public Spaces in Mumbai’, in Indian Architect and Builder, 22(5), 90–93, January 2009.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘If Women Could Risk Pleasure: Reinterpreting Violence in Public Space’ in Bishakha Datta (ed) Nine Degrees of Justice: New perspectives on violence against women in India, New Delhi: Zubaan, 2010.
Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, Like Here Like There, Himal South Asian, October 2011
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review: Taking Issue & Allah’s Answer: Shikwa & Jawaab-E-Shikwaa by Mustansir Dalvi, 2012, Book Review India
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review: City Adrift: A Short Biography of Bombay by Naresh Fernandes, 2014, Book Review India
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review:The Song of the Shirt: Cheap Clothes Across Continents and Centuries by Jeremy Seabrook, 2015, Book Review India
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review: Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India by Akshaya Mukul, 2016, Book Review India
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review:An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Radicalism: Growing Up Muslim in India by Neyaz Farooquee, 2018, Biblio: A Review of Books
Ullah, Faiz, Citizenship of Photography, 2019, Art India
Ullah, Faiz, Book Review: Towards People’s Cinema: Independent Documentary and its Audience in India by Kasturi Basu and Dwaipayan Banerjee, 2018, The Tribune
Ullah, Faiz, “Screening out the Public: Cinema and the City” in Raiot. October, 2016.
Ullah, Faiz, Review of Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs in The Wire. October 2016.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Freedom without binaries, without borders’, Live Mint, 04 February 2017.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Women too have the Right to Fun’, Mint, January 19, 2017.
Phadke, Shilpa, ‘Taking it to the Streets’, Indian Express, January 08, 2017.
Lakshmi Lingam, ‘A Lifetime in Pursuit of Gandhism’, The Hindu, https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/a-lifetime-in-pursuit-of-gandhism/article30949783.ece, Mar. 1, 2020. (Book review)
Lakshmi Lingam, How the Tanishq Advertisement Controversy Shows That We Live in Post-Truth Times, The Leaflet, 20 October 2020 https://www.theleaflet.in/how-the-tanishq-advertisement-controversy-shows-that-we-live-in-post-truth-times/#
Lakshmi Lingam, Laying bare the social and economic fault lines: India’s COVID-19 experience, East Asia Forum, 15 August 2020. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/08/15/laying-bare-the-social-and-economic-fault-lines-indias-covid-19-experience/
Piyush Kant, Hey! Mr. Coubertin, the Olympics movement has finally arrived, The Bridge, https://thebridge.in/tokyo-2020/coubertin-olympics-movement-arrived-24370, Aug 11, 2021
Nithila Kanagasabai, “Women (Not) Making News” in FemAsia: Asian Women’s Journal, January 2022 Issue, 25 January 2022. http://femasiamagazine.com/women-not-making-news/
Gulati, Shilpi, “A Difficult Year for The Indian Film Fraternity” FemAsia: Asian Women’s Journal, January 2022