Dr R Harindranath
Associate Professor, Media and Communications
Biography
Hari has taught in universities in India, Malaysia, and the UK, and has given invited lectures in several universities in Europe and the US. While working as a lecturer in India he was involved in the production of radio and television programmes for the teaching of English and other languages.
He has worked on funded research projects on television and film audiences, and has published books, articles and chapters, and presented conference papers in areas such as audience research, media globalisation, nationalist politics, the politics of media representation, and cultural imperialism.
Hari is the author of Perspectives on Global Cultures (2006), and co-author of The 'Crash' Controversy (2001). The volume of essays he co-edited, Approaches to Audiences (1998) has recently been translated to Chinese. He is currently completing a book on the debates about cultural imperialism.
Hari's research interests include global media, economy and cultures; qualitative audience research; 'race' and representation; the aesthetics and cultural politics of exile and nationalism among diasporic communities; and South Asian media and society.
Previous positions
- Lecturer, Dept of Sociology, The Open University, UK (2001 - 2004).
- Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, School of Cultural Studies, University of the West of England, UK (1997 - 2001).
- Lecturer, Centre for Language and Communication Studies, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia (March - December 1996).
- Postgraduate Tutor, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, UK (1992 - 1995).
- Lecturer, Dept. of Radio, Television, and Cinematography, Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India (1987 - 1990).
Teaching
- 100-301 Global Media Cultures
- 100-570 Global Media: Theory and Research
- 100-311 Media and Communications Research Project
Publications
Books
- (in press, 2008) Audience-citizens: the Media, Public Knowledge, and Interpretive Practice. New Delhi and London: Sage.
- (2007) Reimagining Diaspora: Transnational Lives and the Media (edited, with O. Bailey and M. Georgiou), London: Palgrave.
- (2006) Editor, special issue on International Audience Research, Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, vol.3 issue: 2, November.
- (2006) Perspectives on Global Cultures. Maidenhead and New York: The Open University Press.
- (with M. Barker and J. Arthurs) (2001) The 'Crash' Controversy: Censorship Campaigns and Film Reception. London and New York: Wallflower Press.
- (edited, with R. Dickinson and O.Linne (ed.) (1998) Approaches to Audiences. London: Arnold. Chinese translation by Shan Bo (2006), Beijing: Huaxia Publishing.
In preparation
- Southern Discomfort: Global Media, Local Elites, and Neo-Liberalism. London: Pluto.
Essays, book chapters and conference papers
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Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Terrorism, the media, and the politics of differenceÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡, in S. Lakha and P. Taneja (ed) (2007) Democracy, Development and Civil Society in India (Proceedings of the conference, 20-21 September, 2007), University of Melbourne.
http://www/social-environmental.unimelb.edu.au/news/conferences/DDCSconference/Indiaconferenceproceedings.pdf -
Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Spectacular conflicts, naked empires, and the colonization of social lifeÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡, New Formations, 2007.
- 'Refugee communities and the cultural politics of identity', in O. Bailey, R. Harindranath, and M. Georgiou (ed) (2007) Reimagining Diaspora: Transnational Lives and the Media. London: Palgrave.
- (with O. Bailey and M. Georgiou (2007) 'Explorations of diaspora in the context of media culture', in O. Bailey, R. Harindranath, and M. Georgiou (ed) (2007) Reimagining Diaspora: Transnational Lives and the Media. London: Palgrave.
- 'International audience research: continuing concerns and novel developments', in Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, special issue on International Audience Research, vol.3, issue: 2, November 2006.
- 'Audiences, public knowledge and citizenship in democratic states: preliminary thoughts on a conceptual framework', in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, special issue on International Audience Research, vol.3, issue: 2, November 2006.
- (with O. Guedes Bailey) 'Ethnic minorities, cultural difference, and the cultural politics of communication', in International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, special issue on 'From Culture to Politics and Back: Revisiting Multiculturalism', vol.2, issue: 2, Oct 2006.
- 'Nationalism, economic liberalisation, and transnational media', ANZCA conference on Empowerment, Creativity and Innovation: Challenging Media and Communication in the 21st Century, Adelaide, July 2006.
- (with Maggie O'Neill) 'Theorising narratives of exile and belonging : the importance of Biography and Ethno-mimesis in "understanding" asylum', Qualitative Sociological Review, vol.2, issues: 1, 2006.
- 'Ethnicity and cultural difference: some thematic and political issues on global audience research' Participations: International Journal on Audience Research, October 2005 issue.
- (With Guedes-Bailey, O) 'Racialised "othering": the representation of asylum seekers in news media', in S. Allan (ed.) (2005) Journalism: Critical Issues. Buckingham and New York: Open University Press.
- (in Mandarin) 'Analysing global media: the "third world", "nationalism" and "imperialism", in Shan Bo and Shi Yibin (ed) (2005) Intercultural Communication. Wuhan: Wuhan University Press.
- 'States, markets, and the media: liberalisation and national culture in China and India' Media and Society in Asia, AMIC annual conference, Beijing, China. 2005.
- 'Battling over "truth": the Iraq war, the media, and citizenship', A. Biressi and H. Nunn (ed.) (2004) Media Wars. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
- 'Analysing global media: the "third world", "nationalism" and "imperialism", International Conference on Inter-cultural Communication, Wuhan University, China. 2004.
- 'International audience research and the "cultural imperialism" thesis: a Critical-hermeneutic reassessment', International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference, Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2004.
- 'Reviving "cultural imperialism": international audiences, local elite, and global media', L. Parks and S. Kumar (ed.) (2003) Planet TV. New York: New York University Press.
- 'Television in India: nationalist discourses, consumer citizens, and economic liberalization', Media in Transition 3, Boston, 2003.
- 'Software industry, religious fundamentalism and new social movements in India: aspects of globalisation?' M. Pendakur and R. Harris (ed.) (2002) Citizenship and Participation in the Information Age. Ontario: Garamond Press.
- 'Southern discomfort: neo-liberalism, transnational elites, and late imperialism', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, 2002.
- 'Opening up and closing down: the apparent paradox of economic 'liberalization' and cultural protectionism in contemporary India', Union for Democratic Communication conference on Democratic Communication and Global Justice, Pennsylvania, 2002.
- 'Reconfiguring "cultural imperialism": global audiences, local interpretive frames, and the distribution of cultural resources', Media in Transition 2, Boston, 2002.
- '"Out there" and "in here" -the global-local dialectic', D. Fleming (ed.) (2001) Formations: 21st Century Media Studies. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- 'Ethnicity, national culture(s), and the interpretation of television', S. Cottle (ed.) (2000) Ethnic Minorities and the Media: Changing Cultural Boundaries. Buckingham: The Open University Press.
- 'Virtual nationalism: diaspora, deterritorialization, and "Tamilnation.org"', Tripodos, May 2000.
- 'Theorising protest: the significance of social movements to metropolitan theory', Thamyris, vol. 7: 1&2, Summer 2000.
- 'Virtual nationalism: diaspora and identity in "Tamilnation.org", International Conference on Communication and Reality. Barcelona. 2000.
- 'Software industry, religious fundamentalism, and new social movements in India: theoretical connections', Citizens at the Crossroads: Whose Information Society, London Ontario, 1999.
- '"Out there" and "in here": towards resolving the global-indigenous debate', Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Tampere, Finland, 1998.
- Panel session (with M. Barker and J. Arthurs) 'On "Crash" audiences', AMCCS conference, Sheffield, 1998.
- (with S. Das) (1996) 'Nation-state, national identity, and the media', Module 4: Unit 22, M.A. Mass Communications by Distance Learning, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester. Revised in 2006.
- 'Documentary meanings and interpretive contexts: observations on Indian "repertoires", R. Dickinson, R. Harindranath, and O. Linne (ed.) (1998) Approaches to Audiences. London: Arnold.
- 'Audience interpretations and cultural contexts: a re-appraisal using hermeneutics and postcolonial theory', International Association for Mass Communication Research Conference, Sydney, 1996.
- 'Culture and meaning: a phenomenological approach', International Association for Mass Communication Research Conference, Dublin, 1993.
Invited lectures
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Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Diversity and Democracy in IndiaÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡, Linking Latitudes Conference, New Delhi, 2007.
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Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Cultural difference and the mediaÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡, Wuhan University, China, 2007.
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Ôø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Globalisation and the mediaÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, 2004.
- 'Cultural/Media Imperialism: What are we arguing about?', Keynote address, Norwegian Association of Media Research, Trondheim, Norway, 2004.
- 'Re-examining "cultural imperialism": neo-liberalism, global media and nationalist politics', Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, 2004.
- 'Reassessing cultural imperialism: is it still valid?', Southern Illinois University, USA. 2002.
- 'Southern discomfort: global media and local elite' University of Leicester, UK, 2002.
- 'The documentary mode of address and cross-cultural audiences', University of Bergen, Norway, 1998
- 'Race, identity, and the question of cultural imperialism', University of Trondheim, Norway, 1998.
- 'Contemporary hermeneutics and audience interpretations', University of Oslo, Norway, 1998.
- 'Television and the social construction of meaning: qualitative methods for audience research', Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 1993.
- 'The development of audience research', University of Warwick, UK, 1993.