- Delhi, Delhi, India
Research Interests: Humanities and Art
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Research Interests: Humanities and Art
Evolutionary psychology examines the links between psychological mechanisms and adaptive problems. This article focuses on the adaptive problem of habitat selection. To perpetuate survival, the individual members of a species must... more
Evolutionary psychology examines the links between psychological mechanisms and adaptive problems. This article focuses on the adaptive problem of habitat selection. To perpetuate survival, the individual members of a species must accurately assess the threats and benefits presented by the environment they inhabit. When threats outweigh benefits, the individual must safeguard their survival by either overcoming the threat or finding a more suitable habitat. The article reads the stories penned by Cristina Fallarás, Isabel Franc, Teresa Solana and Antonia Cortijos for the anthology Barcelona Noir (2011) as imaginative constructs of the avoid-approach quandary in habitat selection. Adopting an evolutionary approach, it examines the links between survival and the capacity to ‘detect’, ‘perceive’ and ‘seek’ suitable habitats as represented in these stories.
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Jallikattu, a bull taming sport held during the Tamil harvest festival of Pongal, claimed national headlines at the start of this year. Mass protests erupted all over the state of Tamil Nadu against the decision of the Supreme Court of... more
Jallikattu, a bull taming sport held during the Tamil harvest festival of Pongal, claimed national headlines at the start of this year. Mass protests erupted all over the state of Tamil Nadu against the decision of the Supreme Court of India confirming the two-year-old ban on the sport. This article unpacks stake-holder attitudes imbricated in Jallikattu through Victor Turner's framework for processual analysis of " Social Drama. " By following Turner's stages for understanding significant " irregular " changes in society the article explores the potency of Jallikattu as a root metaphor for larger socio-political-juridical tensions. A possible source of these tensions lies is in what Ánibal Quijano terms coloniality and Robert JC Young refers to as deep colonialism. The regional location of the sport in South India resonates with Walter Mignolo's understanding of the Global South – an entity where emancipatory and decolonial forces do not acquiesce with global designs.
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Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman’s well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be used, it can be used because it exists. The well-wrought hammer of postcolonialism is worked upon on selected contemporaneous but disparate... more
Postcolonialism, much like Graham Harman’s well-wrought hammer, does not exist because it can be used, it can be used because it exists. The well-wrought hammer of postcolonialism is worked upon on selected contemporaneous but disparate narratives, Vicki Constantine Croke’s Elephant Company (2014) and Tania James’ The Tusk that did the Damage (2015), to crack them open for an assessment of the extent to which as-yet invisible but already-present traces of former imperialism remain embedded in the texts. Neither the non-human animal nor the human beings in the narratives are a monolithic block. Each group, whether animal or human, establishes a distinct relationality with the others. When the entire ensemble is gridded in Cary Wolfe’s species matrix, latent, implicit, power relations become visible.
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The concept of feminine difference was postulated by the French feminists, Luce Irrigaray prominent among them, who were part of the second wave of feminism. The paper examines the texts of sixteenth century contemporaries Mirabai and... more
The concept of feminine difference was postulated by the French feminists, Luce Irrigaray prominent among them, who were part of the second wave of feminism.
The paper examines the texts of sixteenth century contemporaries Mirabai and Santa Teresa for a reading of the feminin ecriture in their verses and writings.
The paper examines the texts of sixteenth century contemporaries Mirabai and Santa Teresa for a reading of the feminin ecriture in their verses and writings.
