Communication and Media graduate student Sarah Khan has published a solo-authored, peer-reviewd article in BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, the flagship journal of the Sarai Programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi.
Her article, "In the Service of the Hindu Nation: Online Disinformation Campaigns by Far-Right Women Political Influencers in India," offers a theoretically innovative analysis of the gendered dynamics of digital disinformation and far-right mobilization. Through the concept of virtuous intimacy, Sarah examines how nationalist women influencers cultivate affective and aspirational appeals to draw others into ideologically driven online campaigns— an important intervention at the intersections of gender, media, and mobilization studies.
The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies is one of India's most esteemed independent research institutions, and has long served as a global hub for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary scholarship in political theory, media and urban studies, and postcolonial critique.
Publication in their journal, BioScope, signals that Sarah's work is not only methodologically rigorous and theoretically rich, but also in active dialogue with some of the most important conversations in global intellectual life today.
