Theme 1
Mediating Belonging: Popular Culture, Recognition, and the Politics of Representation
Theme 2
Platformed Selves: Digital Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity Performance
Theme 3
Spectacles of Nationhood: Sport, Media Rituals, and the Performance of National Identity
Theme 4
Popular Culture as National Archive: Memory, Nostalgia, and Cultural Citizenship
Theme 5
Hypervisibility and Erasure: Gender, Caste, and the Politics of Representation in Indian Media
Theme 6
Imagined Nations, Mediated Loyalties: Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Belonging
Theme 7
Selves: Globalization, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Transnational Identity Formations
Theme 8
Mediated Margins: Resistance, Reclamation, and the Subaltern Self in Popular Culture
Theme 9
Screens of the Self: Affective Economies, Social Media, and the Cultural Construction of Identity
Theme 10
Cultural Commodities and Classed Selves: The Political Economy of National Pop Culture