MLA Commons | Swati Arora | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/swati/activity/ Activity feed for Swati Arora. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:16:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 2e7c2a270e2d8fbef82825a2bf9a3536 Swati Arora's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898064/ Fri, 06 Sep 2024 15:24:33 -0400 0 0e65a44147c7c8d152704a6489eb3a47 Swati Arora deposited A manifesto to decentre theatre and performance studies in the group Postcolonial Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1856303/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 01:13:25 -0400 With the climate of Brexit, xenophobia and white supremacy on the rise, health and safety of Black and Global Majority people under threat during the spread of Covid in the UK and elsewhere, a discussion of colonialism, migration, borders, and equality – in the classrooms and outside – is more pertinent than ever. Situating the ongoing Dec…[Read more]

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]]> 0 78f09922563c6c2fc6e026b1c8af113c Swati Arora's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1840921/ Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:04:01 -0400 0 de8e92ba60a38011ac03a97f55fd537a Swati Arora deposited Fugitive aesthetics: performing refusal in four acts in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1793288/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 02:23:55 -0400 This chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]

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]]> 0 3e6b961b3d2152801fe2b75683db7866 Swati Arora's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1792146/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 12:20:27 -0400 0 d21a423e766c8059f7cb8957818cec5e Swati Arora's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1774184/ Tue, 08 Mar 2022 18:37:43 -0500 0 436819faf9718d90bc6a9d2410283506 Swati Arora deposited Walk in India and South Africa: notes towards a decolonial and transnational feminist politics in the group Urban Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773804/ Fri, 04 Mar 2022 02:24:44 -0500 The essay discusses Maya Rao’s Walk and The Mothertongue Project’s Walk: South Africa to explore the languages of transnational and embodied feminist politics that these performances conjure. The two performances are instances of artistic responses to sexualized violence in India and South Africa as they engage with the politics of walking in the…[Read more]

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