FACULTY
Prof. Ravikant Kisana
Assistant Professor - Literary & Cultural Studies
Email: ravikant.kisana@flame.edu.in
Department of Humanities & Languages
FPM in Cultural Studies from MICA, Ahmedabad; PGDM in Advertising from MICA; B.A in Political Science from Jadavpur University
BIO
Ravikant was a Doctoral fellow at MICA, Ahmedabad and completed his thesis on the 'Memories of Bollywood cinema in Kashmir' and its intersections with nationalism and resistance discourses. His areas of interests include culture studies, oral histories & narratives, semiotics, cinema studies & the sociology of the internet.
Previously, he has completed his PGDM from MICA, Ahmedabad, majoring in Brand Management & Account Planning. Post-PGDM, he has industry-experience with the Times of India and Ogilvy & Mather Advertising.
Ravikant has a wide variety of interdisciplinary interests and experiences. Post doctoral studies, he has also had a stint in the development sector and the digital startup economy. Before joining FLAME, Ravikant was part of a small team which set up Obitopedia - an oral-history based memory project.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Publications & Working Papers
PAPER TITLE | JOURNAL | STATUS |
“No one understands what we go through”: Narratives of ‘risk’ of women from the families of sanitation workers in Pune (w. Shah, N.) | Gender & Development | Forthcoming |
An online ethnography of responses to Christchurch shootings from Indian Facebook groups | First Monday: Journal on the Internet | Under Review |
Revisiting the screen politics of the ‘queer gaze’ in Gregg Araki’s ‘Doom Generation’ | Film International | Under Review |
Land Of ‘No’ Cinema Halls: Oral Histories of Cinema Spectatorship & Audience in Kashmir | Economic & Political Weekly | Under Review |
'Voices from the Beyond': Investigating women's empowerment through education in Nuh, India's most backward district, (w. Arora, S.) | Gender, Place and Culture | Under Review |
Invisible gendered-labor negotiations of women MGNREGA workers in rural Rajasthan, (w. Shah, N.) | Working paper | |
Narratives of Muslim women from ‘Shaheen Bagh’-style sit-in protests against NRC-CAA: Intersections of identity, feminism and resistance, (w. Chandawarkar, A., & Shah, N.) | Working paper | |
Conferences/Workshops
PERIOD | CONFERENCE/WORKSHOP | RESEARCH PAPER/WORKSHOP THEME |
2019-20 | IIHS Annual Conference 2020 - Bangalore | Subverting the SDGs and the Right to the City: The Lack of Financial and Social Accountability in India’s Smart Cities Mission (w. Kuecker, G., Sarkulov, F.) |
2018-19 | [Workshop] Oral Histories in Liberal Education- American University in Bulgaria | Oral History as a practice and strategies |
[Workshop] Introduction to Digital Humanities- IIT Guwahati | Digital Humanities & the Social Sciences | |
Internet Researchers' Conference 2019, Centre for Internet Studies- Hyderabad | Beyond food delivery: a study of ‘Swiggy’ as an informal service certifying agency | |
2017-18 | IAMCR Conference 2017, Cartagena | ‘Queer Eyes’: Locating the gaze in the visual narratives of Queer Cinema |
‘If you ask for Kashmir, we'll rip you apart’: | ||
2016-17
| Internet Researchers' Conference 2017, Centre for Internet Studies- Bangalore | Whose Studies Are These Anyway: 'Digital' Blocks in Departmental Slots |
Globalization, Culture & Identity Conference, Flame University, Pune | ‘Our Girls, Their Girls’: Gendered performances of Femininity from ‘Queen’ | |
4th International Communication Management Conference (ICMC), MICA Ahmedabad | "Boys will be boys": Investigating the 'default male-humor' of popular online comedy channel, TVF India | |
2011-12 | IAMCR Conference 2011, Istanbul | Directions of desire: An understanding of the city and its role in shaping homosexual spaces (w. JD Ambat) |
Public Women in Patriarchal Spaces–Undercurrents in Urban India (w., Chintala, S.) |
Selected Digital Media/Public Humanities
PLATFORM | TITLE |
Feminism in India | Dr. Ambedkar & The History of His Resistance Against the Rightwing |
Round Table India | ‘Who does Rohith Vemula belong to?’ On Kunal Kamra & the liberal appropriation |
FirstPost India | Why the BJP's much-feted aspirational districts scheme has failed to gain ground |
Round Table India | Lessons from Yugoslavia’s breakup for India’s impending caste wars |
Buzzfeed India | Progressive Millennial Indians, Let’s Talk About Why We Never Talk About Caste |
Book Chapters & Reviews
“Building consensus methodically: community rebuilding in the Maldives” in Participation Pays: Pathways for post-2015, edited by Tom Thomas and Pradeep Narayanan. Practical Action Publishing: UK