Purnima Mankekar: 2 books
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1999
In Screening Culture, Viewing Politics Purnima Mankekar presents a cutting-edge ethnography of television-viewing in India. With a focus on the responses of upwardly-mobile, yet lower-to-middle class urban women to state-sponsored entertainment serials, Mankekar demonstrates how television in India...
Unsettling India
Affect, Temporality, Transnationality
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and “Indianness,” as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate through transnational public cultures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi...