Cultural Studiesसांस्कृतिक अध्ययन
Reading power, identity, and representation across Indian cultural texts
An interdisciplinary study of postcolonial theory, subaltern studies, media, and popular culture, focused on how power and identity are represented and contested in Indian cultural production.
- 01
Postcolonial Theory and Indian Cultural Criticism
An introduction to postcolonial theory's core concepts and their distinctive development within Indian cultural criticism.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 02
Subaltern Studies and the Politics of History-Writing
How the Subaltern Studies Collective transformed Indian historiography by centring peasant and popular consciousness.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 03
Media, Cinema, and Popular Culture in India
Analysing Indian cinema, television, and digital media as sites where cultural identity, nationalism, and social hierarchy are negotiated.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 04
Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Indian Cultural Discourse
Examining how gender and sexuality have been theorised, contested, and represented within Indian feminist and queer cultural studies.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 05
The Birmingham School and the Culture Industry Debate
Comparing the Frankfurt School's critique of mass culture as manipulation with the Birmingham School's emphasis on active audience meaning-making and subcultural resistance.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 06
Global Media, Platform Culture, and Fandom
How digital platforms have restructured global media flows, produced new participatory fan cultures, and generated fresh debates about labour, algorithmic power, and cultural homogenisation versus hybridity.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises
- 07
Postcolonial and Decolonial Cultural Theory Worldwide
Tracing the development of postcolonial cultural critique from Said's Orientalism and Fanon's psychology of colonialism through Glissant's Caribbean poetics and Mignolo's decolonial 'delinking' project.
5 concepts · 5 sources · 3 exercises