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Associate professor Radhika Parameswaran and doctoral candidate Spring-Serenity Duvall have book chapters forthcoming in the edited volume Tracking Visibilities: Gender and Transnational Media Culture (NYU Press).

Duvall’s chapter, "Celebrity travels: Media spectacles and the construction of a transnational politics of care," explores representations of celebrity activism and motherhood to reveal how humanitarian causes are coded in racial and gendered terms in transnational space. An earlier version of this chapter has been presented in the annual conference of the Media and Politics specialist group of the Political Studies Association (UK) in 2007.

Parameswaran’s chapter, "E-raceing Color: Gender and the Visual Economy of Beauty in India," weaves together media representations, economic and ethnographic data, and celebrity interviews to examine discourses of gender, beauty, nation and globalization in India alongside other locations in Africa and Asia. An earlier version of the chapter won the Top Faculty Paper Award in the Ethnicity and Race Division of the ICA 2009 conference.

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