Arvind Rajagopal
Interests include political economy of culture, contemporary South Asia, social theory, audiences and reception theory, and globalization. Author of Politics After Television: Religious Nationalism and the Retailing of Hinduness (Cambridge, 2001). Guest Editor of Social Text No. 68, on Technologies of Perception and the Cultures of Globalization. Coauthor of Mapping Hegemony: Television News and Industrial Conflict (1992) and several articles in scholarly journals. Recipient of Rockefeller Fellowship at the University of Chicago (1993) and awards from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1996, 1997) and the American Institute of Indian Studies (1994, 1997, 2000). Member of the School of Socil Science, at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton (1998-1999).
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Awards
- 1999 : New York University Challenge Grant
- 2000 : American Institute of Indian Studies. Short term Senior Fellowship
- 1998 : Honorary Fellow, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1998 : Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1996 : Sawyer Fellowship, International Institute, University of Michigan
- 1996 : Macarthur Foundation Fellowship for Research and Writing on Peace and International Cooperation
- 2004 : American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Fellowship, Jan-Oct 2004
- 2003 : Ananda K. Coomaraswamy Prize. Best Book Award. South Asia Council, Association of Asian Studies
- 2003 : Griffiths Award, Best Book, NYU, School of Education
Publications
- Politics After Television: Religious Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
- (1991). (Co-authored by Robert Goldman). Mapping Hegemony: Television News Coverage of Industrial Conflict. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
- (2000). "Hindu Nationalism in the U.S.: Changing Configurations of Political Practice," Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 23 No. 3, pp. 67-96.
- (1999). "Thinking through emerging markets: brand logics and the cultural forms of political society in India," Social Text 60, Fall, pp. 131-149.
- (1999). "Communities Imagined and Unimagined: Contemporary Indian Variations on the Public Sphere." Discourse: Journal for the Theoretical Study of Media and Culture. Vol. 21, No. 2. pp. 48-84.
- (1998/99). "Advertising, Politics and the Sentimental Education of the Indian Consumer," Visual Anthropology Review, vol. 14 no. 2, pp. 14-31
- (1997). "Hindu Immigrants in the U.S.: Imagining Different Communities?" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, (Oakland, Calif.), pp. 51-65.
- (1996). "Mediating Modernity: Theorizing Reception in a Non-Western Society." Communication Review, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 441-469.
- (1996). "Communalism and the Consuming Subject." in Economic and Political Weekly. Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 341-348.
Research Interests
Political economy of culture Contemporary South Asia Social theory Audiences and reception theory Globalization