Dr. Paula Chakravartty

Global political economy; inequality and information societies; media and social movements.

Education

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1999
M.A., University of Wisconsin Madison, 1995
B.A., McGill University, 1991

Background

Author of Media Policy and Globalization (Edinburgh University Press , 2006, Palgrave 2007), co-author Katharine Sarikakis, and co-editor of Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy (Rowan & Littlefield, 2008) with Yuezhi Zhao. Author of several articles and book chapters: "Governance Without Politics": "White-Collar Nationalisms," "Weak Winners of Globalization: Indian Workers in the American Information Economy," "Telecommunications, Development and the State: A Postcolonial Critique."

She is currently working on a book about the political culture of exclusion, access and citizenship in India’s fractured information society. She is also working on a second project on the changing political economy of development communication in Brazil and India. Read more about Dr. Paula Chakravartty...

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Books

Media Policy and Globalization, Co-Author: Katharine Sarikakis (Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press, 2006).

Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy, Co-editor Yuezhi Zhao (Rowan & Littlefield, 2008).

Journal Articles

“Governance without Politics: Civil Society, Development and the Postcolonial State" International Journal of Communication, 1: 297-317. (2007).

“White-Collar Nationalisms” Social Semiotics 16 (1): 39-55 (2006).

“Who Speaks for the Governed: World Summit on the Information Society, Civil Society and the Limits of Multistakeholderism” Economic and Political Weekly, 41 (3): 250-257. (2006).

“Weak Winners of Globalization: Indian H-1B Workers in the American Information Economy” AAPI Nexus, 3 (2): 59-84. (2005).

“Telecom, National Development and the Indian State: A Postcolonial Critique” Media, Culture and Society, 26 (2): 227-249. (2004).

“Globalization and Critical Media Studies” Southern Review: Communication, Politics & Culture, 35 (3) Co-Author: Mari Castañeda Paredes, 2002.

“Translating Terror in India” Television and New Media, 3 (2) 2002: 205-212.

“Flexible Citizens and the Internet: The Global Politics of Local High-tech Development in India” Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures, 11 (1) 2001: 69-88.

Book Chapters

"Labor in or as Civil Society: Workers and Subaltern Publics in India’s Information Society" in Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao Political Economy of Global Communication: Towards a Transcultural Perspective, Rowan & Littlefield (2008): 285-308

"Introduction: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy of Global Communication" Co-Author: Yeuzhi Zhao, in Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao Political Economy of Global Communication: Towards a Transcultural Perspective, Rowan & Littlefield (2008):1-22.

“Islam and Terror in India” co-author Srinivas Lankala in Amrita Basu and Srirupa Roy (Eds.) The Banality of Evil: The State and Violence in India. Seagull Press (Forthcoming, September 2006).

“Branding High-Tech India: The Culture of Transnational Economic News “ in Michael Curtin (Ed.) Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. (Forthcoming 2007).

“Symbolic Analysts or Indentured Servants? Indian High-Tech Migrants in America’s Information Economy” in Adrian Favell and Peter Michael Smith (Eds.) The Human Face of Global Mobility, Transaction Press (2006).

“Civil Society and Nationalism: Translocal Labor and the Information Economy” in Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy, Rowan & Littlefield (2006).

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