Arvind Rajagopal
· Professor of Media, Culture, and CommunicationNew York University · Communication Studies
Active 1984–2025
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About
Arvind Rajagopal is a Professor of Media Studies at NYU Steinhardt and is an affiliated faculty member in the Departments of Sociology and Social and Cultural Analysis. His scholarly work focuses on media, culture, and communication, with particular attention to political and social transformations in India. He authored the book 'Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India,' which received the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of Asian Studies and the Daniel Griffiths Prize at NYU, and 'The Indian Public Sphere: Structure and Transformation.' Rajagopal has been recognized with awards from the MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations and has held positions as a Member in the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His research and publications explore urban planning, spatial segregation, and infrastructure of violence, among other topics, contributing to the understanding of media and cultural dynamics in South Asia.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Sociology
- Philosophy
- Law
- Art history
- Economics
- Business
- Media studies
- Psychoanalysis
- Market economy
Selected publications
Communicationism: Cold War Humanism
Critical Inquiry · 2019-12-12 · 24 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingJavnost - The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture
2019-01-01 · 9 citations
articleSenior authorThe Menace of Hawkers: Property Forms and the Politics of Market Liberalization in Mumbai
Routledge eBooks · 2020 · 3 citations
1st authorCorrespondingThis chapter explores debates on Mumbai pheriwalas to illuminate shifts in the cultural politics of property rights accompanying globalization in India. Market liberalization and the roughly concomitant growth of nationwide television pointed to the terra incognita of the majority society, whose political allegiance had been assumed in benevolent or not-so-benevolent forms of clientelism, and whose cultural allegiance hardly figured at all, given the disconnect between elite and popular spheres.…
Robert Bellah: A Cold War Sociologist?
Civic Sociology · 2022 · 1 citations
1st authorCorrespondingComment on Matteo Bortolini’s A Joyfully Serious Man: The Life of Robert Bellah
The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India
2019-12-31 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 405 shared
Fred Powell
- 399 shared
Allyson Reaves
- 378 shared
Ansgar Klein
- 272 shared
Mary Kay Gugerty
University of Washington
- 270 shared
Claudia Opitz−Belakhal
- 270 shared
Yudhishthir Raj Isar
American University of Paris
- 270 shared
Patsy Kraeger
- 270 shared
Anthony Filipovitch
Minnesota State University, Mankato
Awards & honors
- Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association of As…
- Daniel Griffiths Prize at NYU (2003)
- Awards from the MacArthur Foundation
- Awards from the Rockefeller Foundation
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