Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures

Index

309 Abu Ghraib, 3 Abu Lughod, Leila, 16n30, 101n4, 283n44 Activism, 140–142; and Christianity, 107; local human rights, 233, 240; and neoliberal, 140, 153; and trafficking, 113. See also Celebrity Advertisements: and transnational markets, 215. See also Transnational Advertising: and fields of desire, 183; global, 78; in India, 71–75; and sex trafficking, 110–112, 117–119 Africa, 145, 146, 149, 151; African Americans, 58, 110; and women, 75. See also Slavery Ahmed, Leila, 101n4 Ahmed, Sara, 16n26, 17n41, 122n26 Al Jazeera, 242, 243 Alarcon, Norma, 16n26 Alexander, Jacqui M., 5, 16n25, 16n26 American Girl, 58–59 Anderson, Benedict, 231, 301n22 Aneesh, A3, 193n12 Appadurai, Arjun, 6, 14n6, 16n31, 16n36, 33n1, 137n4, 139n30, 175n2, 231,247n2, 267n31, 274, 282n27 Archive, 124 Arkan, Zeljko, 40–42 Audience/s: 60 Minutes, 79; Arab Muslim, 91, 97; and celebrities, 140, 141; Chinese, 197, 200, 201; and DIY, 238; ethnic, 64; Filipino women, 218; French, 129,132; global, 26, 64, 65, 127, 245, 268, 269, 273–275, 279; Hong Kong, 270; imagined, 172; interpretations, 76; male, 154n9; Mexican American, 63; and museum, 126, 128; outside UAE, 296; Serbian, 41,45; Singapore, 251; as spectators, 132, 134; and surveys, 254; Tamil, 81; and Tibet cause, 268 Balikbayan, 214, 226n16 Balsamo, Anne, 294, 301n30, 301n32 Bangalore, 179; as brand, 192 Banlieu, 131 Basu, Amrita, 14n2 Beale, Alison, 138n23 Bennett, Tony, 124, 137n1 Berlant, Lauren, 122n26 Biopower, 294n29 Body: of Afghan woman, 2; of Balkan diva, 35, 48; of carpet weavers, 171; and dress, 99–100; as covered, 21; as discursive entity, 294; as docile, 181, 192; 202; economic imaginations, 70; ethnic gendered body, 275; foreign male, 116,119; gendered, 128; as globally exposed, 186; as infrastructure, 189; Latina body, 53– 54, 64–65; as light/dark-skinned, 68; maternal, 143; and media policing, 154n9; Muslim woman, 3; normative beauty, 75; opacity, 127; and Orientalist frames, 46; raced bodies and beauty, 75–77; racialized, 116; of the sex worker, 115; women’s bodies, 244; worthy of being saved, 106. See also de Certeau; Islam/ Islamic Books: as travelogues, catalogues, 161; See also Carpet; Connoisseur Bourdieu, Pierre, 99, 102n23, 133, 139n31, 262 Index 310 Index Boyah: and stylization, 292; and crossdressing , 293; as cyborg, 294, 301n2. See also Flickr Bratz, 60–61 Breckenridge, Carol A., 16n36 Brown, Wendy, 123n40, 236, 248n16 Calhoun, Craig, 17n43 Capital/Capitalism: of consumer, 161; and democracy, 37; as hypermobile 184; and social hierarchies, 75. See also Neoliberal Carpet: 80, as exotica, 159,165; genealogy, 161–162; and collectors, 164; labor of weaving, 166; as cosmopolitan, 168. See also Islam/ Islamic; Orientalism Castells, Manuel, 194n21 Ceca: Balkan diva, 38–42; Serbian nationalist 35–38 Celebrity: and activism, 141; against trafficking, 113; Aishwarya Rai and whiteness, 77–81; ambassadors, 146–148; and audiences, 140, 141; colonialism, 149–150; and culture, 45–48, 152; as history, 43; Latina stars, 62–64; Padma Lakshmi, 68–69; and political causes, 151–152, 275; Rajnikanth, 80–82; religious celebrities, 90–93; and televangelism, 99; and Western, 140, 141; worlds, 26–30, 33 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 3, 15n12 Citizen journalist: use of media, 235 Citizenship, 212n3, 223; as citizensubject , 113; and corporate language, 190; cultural 252–255, 264; and French identity, 125; as movement, 128; and museum space, 128–130.See also Neoliberal Class: and elite, 208; as mediated, 209; and middle-class, 202, 204; subaltern, 208 Clifford, James, 124, 137n2 Clothing: Abayah, 286; of bounded femininity, 98–100; couture, dressmakers, 126, 129, 131; doppa, 274–275; Kandorahs, 286; and modern masculinity, 100; Muhajiba, 30; and Padma Lakshmi, 68–69; and progress, 21; secondhand, 125; and Sonia Gandhi, 84; Western, 32, 33, 79, 97, 274. See also Body Colonialism: of the colonized, 170; as digital 231. See also Celebrity Colorism, 76, 77, 81, 83 Commodity: as domesticated, 169; fetish, 163, 166. See also Carpet Community of sentiment, 231.See also Appadurai Connoisseur: books, 159, 161. See also Knowledge Consumer: 75, 77; as citizen, 215; and culture, 125; and domestics in China, 207; and marginalized women, 126; as neoliberal subject, 213; women as 183; and youth 130. See also Neoliberal Consumption: as American dream, 44; and call center workers, 186; practices of gays and lesbians, 253 Cosmopolitan/cosmopolitanism, 182, 186,187; and Arab 291; commodified, 62; and family 145–146; gendering 146–147; as heterogeneous 232, 246, 247; as product of, 297; queer, 250, 259–262; sentiment of 231. See also Carpet; Muslim Couldry, Nick, 16n30, 264, 267n39, 301n25 Crane, Diana, 130, 138n25 Creative industries, 255. See also Singapore Cultural participation...