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About Khadeeja Amenda
I am a PhD candidate in the Cultural Studies in Asia programme at the Department of Communication and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore. My doctoral work is on the history and contemporary sound and sensory practices of listening in Hyderabad, India. My areas of research interest are sound studies, sensory studies, media anthropology, visual culture and Islamic studies. I can be reached at khadeejaamenda@u.nus.edu and on Twitter @KhadeejaAmenda
NBN Episodes hosted by Khadeeja:
March 17, 2026
Inhabiting Technologies/Modernities
Studies of forms of media have focused on either political or cultural histories of media. Political histories study media growth and literacy, and th…
February 4, 2026
Seeking Allah's Hierarchy
Why Muslims in South India observe hierarchical intra-communal relationships despite the egalitarianism of their religionIn Seeking Allah’s Hierarchy:…
November 29, 2025
The Sirens of September
A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September (India Penguin, 2025) shifts between…
November 7, 2025
Atmospheric Knowledge
How do we know through atmospheres? How can being affected by an atmosphere give rise to knowledge? What role does somatic, nonverbal knowledge play i…
March 19, 2025
Punjab Sounds
Punjab Sounds (Routledge, 2024) nuances our understanding of the region's imbrications with sound. It argues that rather than being territorially boun…
February 10, 2025
Contested Childhoods
Contested Childhoods: Caste and Education in Colonial Kerala (Cambridge UP, 2024) traces a complex history of caste, race, education, and Christian mi…
February 9, 2025
Religious Sounds Beyond the Global North
What makes sounds “religious”? How are communities shaped by the things they hear, play, or listen to? This book foregrounds connections between sound…
December 9, 2024
Hindu Nationalism in South India
Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala (Routledge, 2024) engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu …
November 9, 2024
Knowing by Ear
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, …
August 10, 2024
Interspecies Communication
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of atte…
July 2, 2024
Stringers and the Journalistic Field
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic …
May 1, 2024
The Gulf Migrant Archives in Kerala
The Indian state of Kerala is one of the largest blocs of migrants in the oil economies of the Arab Gulf. Looking closely at the cultural archives p…
March 21, 2024
Music in Colonial Punjab
Music in Colonial Punjab (Oxford UP, 2023) offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of …
February 29, 2024
Sonic City
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-pro…
November 15, 2023
Listening with a Feminist Ear
Pavitra Sundar's book Listening with a Feminist Ear: Soundwork in Bombay Cinema (U Michigan Press, 2023) is a study of the cultural politics and possi…