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Mookerjea, Sourayan

Books
Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader. Co-edited with Dr. Gail Faurschou and Dr. Imre Szeman. Foreword by Fredric Jameson. Duke University Press (Spring 2009).

Crisis and Catachresis: Pedagogy at the Limits of Identity Politics. Production House Chapbooks. Space of ‘Race’ Series. Vancouver. 1996.

Essays
“Hérouxville’s Afghanistan, or, Accumulated Violence”. Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. Winter 2009, forthcoming.

”Cultural Studies with Multitudes: Immanence and the Multicultural Commons”. Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies. Vol. 29. No. 2&3 (2007): 261-305.

“Migrant Multitudes, Western Transcendence and the Politics of Creativity”.  Journal for Cultural Research. Vol. 7, No.4 (2003): 405-432.

 “Native Informant as Impossible Perspective: Information, Subalternist Deconstruction and Ethnographies of Globalization”. Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 40. No. 2 (May 2003): 125-51.

“Allegorical Stereotypes: Calendar’s Filmic Concept of Global Flows”. Space and Culture. Vol. 5, issue 2 (May 2002): 103-121.

“Montage and Spatial Ethnography: Crystalline Narration and Cultural Studies of Globalization”. Symploke. Vol. 9 No. 1-2 (2001): 114-131.

Book Chapter
“Dalitbahujan Women’s Video Experiments in Andhra Pradesh” in Globalization and Communicative Democracy, Ed. Kevin Howley, Sage Publications: London, forthcoming.

Reviews & Interviews
† "Material/Voyages: an interview with Vivan Sundaram", Rungh: A South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment and Criticism. Vol. 3, No. 2. 1995.

† " 'One of those figures then died': Vivan Sundaram's Memorial Art" The Western Front Magazine. Vol. 6, No. 3, January/February, 1995.

† "Persons of Technicolor in the Popular Cultural Publicity Sphere: A Response to Robin Wood", CineAction. No. 33. February, 1994.

† "Interview with Aijaz Ahmad" with Rinaldo Walcott and Kathryn White". Border/Lines, nos. 29-30. 1993.

Talks and Conferences

Public Cultural Production and Programming

The Spectacular State: Fascism and the Modern Imagination
February through March, 1995. Vancouver, B.C. Canada.

I was one of 5 designers/ principal investigators in an artists and scholars’ collective which performed a neo-situationist cooperative experiment in the construction of public spheres involving multi-media exhibition/interdisciplinary lecture & film series/public fora.  

The experimental public sphere created and maintained several citizens’ commons throughout Vancouver for 2 months (February through March, 1995).  Three hundred and twenty-seven scholars, artists and community activists presented, exhibited and participated in this highly successful event from across North America.  Public attendance at the citizens’ commons totalled over 3,300. The project received support from the Vancouver artist run studio Basic Inquiry, The Institute for the Humanities, and The School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.  

My contributions to the public spheres project included developing its theoretical framework, programming events, lectures, exhibitions and screenings on racism, decolonization, comparative global perspectives, refugees, materialist historiography, psychoanalysis and torture victim trauma therapy.  With Richard Pinet, I also designed and taught a third year undergraduate course on public culture which ran in conjunction with the project at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University.

Dialogues between Australian & Canadian Cultural Studies: Globalization and National Culture. Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, April 2001.

With Dr. Serra Tinic (Sociology, University of Alberta), I organized this colloquia and brought Professor Graeme Turner (from the Institute for Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia) for a two week long sojourn as Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, in April, 2001.

To be continued. . . Cultural Studies and the Critique of Institutions.  Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta, May 28-31, 2000.

With Dr. Serra Tinic (Sociology, University of Alberta), I organized a four day long conference on the practice of cultural studies in Canada through and against transnational flows.  The conference featured papers read by over 40 scholars and keynote lectures by Dr. Derek Sayer, Dr. Aniko Bodroghkozy and Dr. Chris Bracken.  

A focal point of the conference was a roundtable on the future of cultural studies in Canada which proved to be a key step toward the successful formation of the new Canadian Association of Cultural Studies which will be hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta during 2004-2006.

Co-Editor of Rungh: A South Asian Quarterly of Culture, Comment & Criticism. Vol. 4, No. 1 & 2. 1998.  A special issue on Anti-racism. (with Ashok Mathur).

Project Co-Editor LifeStrains 1995-97 (Institute for Humanities, Simon Fraser University)

LifeStrains is a curricular research project developing educational resources for colleges and universities examining ethical and political issues arising from the convergence of informational and bio-technologies such as the Human Genome Project and the patenting of seeds and cell lines.  
 

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