Pawas Bisht
Department of Social Sciences
Loughborough University
Loughborough
Leicestershire LE11 3TU
England
Telephone:
Fax:+44 (0)1509 222930
Email: P.Bisht@lboro.ac.uk
Nationality: Indian
Start Date: Oct 2009
Status: Full-time.
Academic Biography:
BA (Hons) English Literature (First Class),
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
MA Mass Communication (First Class),
AJK Mass Communication Research Centre,
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Current Research:
The title of my PhD study is,
‘Remembering Bhopal’: Disaster and the Dynamics of MemoryProject Brief:
In its immediate aftermath, the Union Carbide gas leak of 1984 in Bhopal (India) was perceived as an event that exceeded both imagination and articulation. It was a “catastrophe in search of a metaphor” and there were fears that the sheer alienness of its nature and scale would make it subject to a “quick erasure”. On the contrary, in the 25 years since the event the metaphors have proliferated and Bhopal has emerged as a transnational site of memory, the locus of a set of competitive “rememberings”.
In my study I seek to map out and analyse the shifting terrain of remembrance that the disaster has engendered.
Research Interests:
Memory and Identity
Commemorations
Media and Representation
Camera Images
Documentary
Social Movements
Funding Body: Loughborough University
Supervisors: Professor Michael Pickering and Dr. Emily Keightley
Involvement in Department:
Cultural and Media Analysis Group (CaMARG)
Organizing committee for the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference 2012 to be hosted the department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University
Member of the interdepartmental PhD Club.
Publications:
Conference Papers
Bisht, P., 2009. Re-enacting ‘Bhopal’: Docudrama Negotiations of the ‘unfigurability of disaster’. In: ‘Documentary Now’ Conference. Birkbeck College, London, 15-16 January 2010.
Bisht, P., 2009. ‘Remembering Bhopal’: Memory, Image, Rhetoric. In: International seminar on 'Visual Culture - Re-Imagining the Image'. Sarojini Naidu School of Performing Arts, Fine Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad, India, 26-28 February 2009.
Bisht, P., 2008. ‘Remembering Bhopal’: Memory, Image, Rhetoric. In: 32ND Indian Social Science Congress. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, December 17-22, 2008.
Bisht, P., 2006.Situating ‘Small Town’ Desire: Space and Memory in Bunty Aur Babli. In: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) Research Fellowship Seminar. New Delhi, June 2006.
Book Reviews
Bisht, P., 2009. Review of ‘The Director’s Mind: A step by step study of the process of filmmaking’. The Book Review. September, 2009.
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