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Dr K.P. Jayasankar
M.A. (Mumbai), Ph.D. (IIT, Mumbai)
Professor, CMCS
e-mail:kpj[AT]tiss.edu |
Dr. K.P. Jayasankar is Professor, Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. He has an M.A. in German language and a Ph.D. in Humanities and Social Sciences, from IIT Mumbai and is involved in media production, teaching and research. A presiding thematic of much of his work has been a problematising of notions of self and the other, of normality and deviance, of the local and the global, through the exploration of diverse narratives and rituals. His films, jointly directed with Dr. Anjali Monteiro, have won twenty one national and international awards. These include the Prix Futura Berlin 1995 Asia Prize for Identity- The Construction of Selfhood, the Certificate of Merit at MIFF `98 and Best Innovation, Astra Film Festival 1998, Sibiu, Romania for YCP 1997 and the Best documentary award at the IV Three Continents International Festival of Documentaries 2005, Venezuela, for SheWrite. Their most recent awards are the Special Jury Award at the Signs 2007 Festival, held in Thiruvananthapuram, Certificate of Merit, Mumbai International Film Festival 2008, Indian Documentary Producers Associuation (IDPA) Gold for Best Sound Design, Gold for Best Script and Silver for Editing for the film Our Family. Dr. Jayasankar is an award winning cameraperson and editor and enjoys web and graphic design. Vibgyor Film Festival, Kerala organised a retrospective of his work in 2006.
Dr. Jayasankar was a Howard Thomas Memorial Fellow in Media Studies, attached to Goldsmith’s College, London and a DAAD visiting scholar at the University of Heidelberg. He conducts workshops in critical media education with groups ranging from school children to activist groups and also serves as visiting faculty to several media and design institutions in India and abroad. He has also served as jury to film festivals. He is actively involved in ‘Vikalp' and 'Films for Freedom', which are collectives of documentary filmmakers campaigning for freedom of expression.
Dr. Jayasankar also has several papers in the area of media and cultural studies and has contributed to journals such as Cultural Studies. His publications include:
Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, The Spectator-Indian - An Exploratory Study of the Reception of News, Cultural Studies 10(1), January 1993.
Monteiro, A. and K.P. Jayasankar, India: The News of the State and the State of the News in Jensen, K.B. (ed.) The News of the World, Routledge, 1998.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A. Between the Normal and the Imaginary - The Spectator-self, the Other and Satellite Television in India, in Hagen, I and Wasko, (ed.,) Consuming Audiences: Production and Reception in Media Research, Hampton Press, 2000.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Documentary and Ethnographic Film, Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Elsevier. 2001.
Jayasankar K.P., Warlis: Myth and Reality, International Gallerie, Vol.I, 2001.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., The Plot Thickens – A Cultural Studies Approach to Media Education in India, in Tony Lavender, Birgitte Tufte and Dafna Lemish (eds.) Global Trends in Media Education, Hampton Press, 2003
Jayasankar K.P., The Speaking Subject: A Preamble to Jivatman, MICA Communications Review, Vol. I No. 2, 15- 33, 2003.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Censorship ke Peeche Kya Hai, in Nalini Rajan (ed) Practising Journalism, Sage, 2005.
Jayasankar K.P. and Monteiro A., Jai Ho Shanghai- The Invisible Poor in Slumdog Millionnaire in Kumar Ashwani et al eds Global Civil Society Yearbook, LSE and Sage, 2009.
Dr. Jayasankar has been involved with the following organisations:
Member, Managing Committee, AVEHI, Audio-Visual Resource Centre, Mumbai
Member, Managing Committee, Comet Media Foundation, Mumbai
Member, Editorial Board, Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series, Routledge
Trustee, Navnirmiti, Mumbai
Consultant, International Fund for Agricultural Development, National Dairy Development Board, Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Population Services International