As a citizen of a country that promotes products like Fair and Lovely, skin colour has been a great part of my life. I grew up with the society telling me that having a lighter skin tone is the first step towards looking “beautiful”. In a world where social acceptance is growing at a fast …
Author Archives: Navya Goel
The Counter in Counterpublic.
If you are reading this, you belong to this article’s public. The term public is widely used in the sense of addressing “people in general”, but let’s focus on the part of society that challenges such publics called counter-public. As Nancy Fraser states, Counterpublics are parallel discursive arenas where members of social groups invent or …
FILM 3610G - CINEMATIC PUBLICS & PARTICIPATIONS: MOVEMENTS, MANIFESTOS, FILM FESTIVALS, COLLECTIVES 