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Research

 

Research Projects

M.Phil/Ph.D Thesis

MA Dissertation

 

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 

 

Publications

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 Development2(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 Studies27(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, ShilpaHow 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, FaizBook 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