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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
In Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity (U Chicago Press, 2024), music scholar Gavin Steingo examines significant cases of atte…
Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India (Routledge, 2023) is one of the first ethnographic …
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…
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 …
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…
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…