You can find all of my published academic writing here, and a few of my speculative/creative texts.
Peer-Reviewed Journals
2023. “Seeding the Forest: Deployment, Detection and Deception with Igloo White.” Cultural Politics, Vol 19. Issue 3: 352-373
.________. “Shade and its Forested Futures (visual essay).” Cultural Politics, Vol 19. Issue 3: 374-391.
(Presented as a two-part “Forested Diptych” for Cultural Politics)
2021. “To Speak of a Wasteland,” Pelikula, Volume 6, 119-124.
2021. “The Grounds of Cinema: Geopolitics and Geoaesthetics in North East’s India’s Documentaries.” IIC Quarterly, Volume 37, Issues 3 and 4, 206-220.
and Abhijan Toto. 2019. “Media Ghostings: Three and a Half Hauntings of the Vietnam War,” Art Critique of Taiwan, 77, (April)
2018. “Negotiating Mobility and Media: The Digital Afterlives of Feluda.” South Asian History and Culture, (November), 1-18.
Book Chapters
“In Search of Indigenous Carbon Toolkits,” in Against Catastrophe, edited by Orit Halpern (et al), 2024 (manuscript in preparation).
“The (Counter)-Insurgent in the Forest,” in The Persistence of the Cold War Imaginaries, edited by John Beck and Ryan Bishop, 2024 (manuscript in preparation).
2022. “Introduction to Japanese Cinema,” in Film Studies: An Introduction, edited by Vebhuti Duggal, Bindu Menon, and Spandan Bhattacharya, pp. 163-184.
2022. “Seeking a Passport: The Transnational Career of Kiều Chinh,” in Stardom in South East Asia, edited by Jonathan Driskell, pp. 84-103.
2021 “Traversing The Evil Within (1971): Transnational Aspirations, Gender and Infrastructure in Post-War Asia” in Industrial Networks and Cinemas of India, edited by Madhuja Mukherjee and Monika Mehta, pp. 155-167.
Artistic Writing and Publication (a few)
2023. “How to Live in the Forest.” Barricading the Ice Sheets, pp. 95-101. Berlin: n.b.k.
In conversation with Jane Jin Kaisen. “Tides and Thresholds.” Currents, pp. 74-88. Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center and Spine Studio.
and Omehen. “Interview with Omehen.” Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 13: Wading,
Guha, Pujita. “Your Brain on Belliphonic Sounds.” E-Flux, edited by Xenia Benivolski for You Can’t Trust Music. 2022.
Guha, Pujita. “Humidity.” Words of Weather, edited by Jussi Parikka and Daphne Dragona pp. 96-99. Onassis Stagle, 2022.
Guha, Pujita. In the Mountains the Only Money is Opium. Art book, Bergamo GAMeC, 2020.
- Reprinted partially in “Opium Tales,” Nero Editions,
(reprinted with edits for the How To Not Build a Nation Zine Publication Series)
Reviews
2023. “In search of a Global Filipino Auteur: Sine ni Lav Diaz, edited by Parichay Patra and Micheal Kho Lim.” Senses of Cinema, Issue 104.
2021. “Review of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater, by Melody Jue.” Configurations, Volume 29, Number 3, (Summer), pp. 353-356.
2021. “Review of Where Histories Reside: India as Filmed Space, by Priya Jaiukumar.” South Asia Film and Media, Volume 12, Number 1, (February), pp. 104-107.
2020. “Blitheness of Form: A look at Dashrath Patel’s career retrospective,” Critical Collective, (December 18)
2017. “An Exhibition That Allows Us to Re-configure and Speak About our Histories,” The Wire, December 2.
Public Writing/ Short Form writing
2020.“A Forest of Histories: Interview with Lav Diaz,” Cineaste, (Summer), pp. 20-26.
2018. “Cannibalism, Reverence and Solipsism: The Films of Srijit Mukherjee," Cinema of Resistance, Volume 5
2017. “Flooded by Patriotism,” Raiot: Challenging the Consensus, September 14, 2017.
pujita@ucsb.edu
pujita.guha90@gmail.com