Themes

Media Representation and Identities:

Mediating Belonging: Popular Culture, Recognition, and the Politics of Representation

Theme 3

Sports and National Identity 

Spectacles of Nationhood: Sport, Media Rituals, and the Performance of National Identity

Theme 5

Mediatization, and the Politics of Representation

Hypervisibility and Erasure: Gender, Caste, and the Politics of Representation in Indian Media

Theme 7

Globalisation and Hyphenated Identities

Selves: Globalization, Diasporic Imaginaries, and Transnational Identity Formations

Theme 9

Digital Culture and Mediated Identities

Screens of the Self: Affective Economies, Social Media, and the Cultural Construction of Identity

Media Culture and Identities

Platformed Selves: Digital Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity Performance

Theme 4

Pop Culture & Memory Studies

Popular Culture as National Archive: Memory, Nostalgia, and Cultural Citizenship

Theme 6

Media, Nation, Nationalism, and National Identities:

Imagined Nations, Mediated Loyalties: Popular Culture and the Aesthetics of Belonging

Theme 8

Popular Culture, and Social and Political Identities

Mediated Margins: Resistance, Reclamation, and the Subaltern Self in Popular Culture

Theme 10

Popular Culture & Economy of Media

Cultural Commodities and Classed Selves: The Political Economy of National Pop Culture