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Publications - Chandra Mukerji

PUBLISHED WORK

  • Mukerji, C. "Institutions on Celluloid," Society, 1972, 4 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C "An American Family: A Film Misrepresentation," Videosociology, 2:25-30, 1973, 6 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Betty Tells Her Story and Raises Cinderella Consciousness," Videosociology, 2:39:44, 1974, 6 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Having the Authority to Know," Sociology of Work and Occupations, 3:63-87, 1976, 25 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Film Games," Symbolic Interaction, 1977, 22 page ms. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Swept Away," Contemporary Sociology, 483-486,1977. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of The Media are American by Jeremy Tunstall in Contemporary Sociology, 7:33-34, 1978, 2 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Distinguishing Machines," Sociology of Work and Occupations, 5:113-138, 1978, 26 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Bullshitting: Road Lore Among Hitchhikers," Social Problems, 25:241-52, 1978, 12 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Play by Kathleen Garvey in Contemporary Sociology, 1978, 2 page ms. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Artwork: Collection and Contemporary Culture," American Journal of Sociology, 1978, 18 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Mass Culture and the Modern World-System,"Theory and Society, 8:245-268, 1979. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Broadcasting the Third World by Elihu Katz and George Wedell in American Journal of Sociology, REVIEW ARTICLE pp. 700-702, 1979, 3 pages.
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Literacy, Writing, Reading and Special Organization by John Oxenham in Contemporary Sociology, 1982, 2 page ms. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983, 329 pages. BOOK
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Birth of a Consumer Society in 18th-Century England by McKendrick, Brewer, and Plumb in The Eighteenth Century, 25:88-94, 1984, 7 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Dream Worlds by Rosalind Williams in Contemporary Sociology, 1984, 4 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Visual Language in Science and the Exercise of Power: The Case of Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Studies in Visual Communication. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Voir le Pouvoir," in Les Vues de L'Esprit, special issue of Culture Technique, 14:208-223. Translation of Visualization and Cognition in Science," 1985, 16 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Language of Class, by Gareth Stedman Jones, American Journal of Sociology, 1985, 170-72, 3 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of The Social Limits of Art, by John Manfredi, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, and Beauty and the Beasts: On Museums, Art, the Law and the Market, by Stephen E. Weil, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Press in Qualitative Sociology, 8(4), Winter 1985, 396-398, 3 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures, by Michael Baxandall, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, in American Journal of Sociology, 1985, 485-486, 2 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. and Michael Schudson, "Popular Culture" in Annual Review of Sociology, 1986, 63 pages. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. "Image and Polemics," discussion of Photography Against the Grain by Allan Sekula in Contemporary Sociology, March, 1986, 7 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Art, Ideology and Politics, by Judith Balfe and Janet Wyszomirsk in Contemporary Sociology, March, 1986, 4 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Discussion of Revolution in Time by David Landes in Contemporary Sociology, 1988. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Review of Material Culture and Consumption by David Miller, American Journal of Sociology, 1989. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Review of Discourse on Popular Culture by Morag Shiach, American Journal of Sociology, 1990. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. A Fragile Power. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990, 253 pages. BOOK
  • Mukerji, C. Rethinking Popular Culture. Co-edited with Michael Schudson. University California Press, 1990. BOOK
  • Mukerji, C. "Reading and Writing with Nature" Theory and Society, 19:651-679, 1990. RESEARCH ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, C. Review of Science as Power by Stanley Aronowitz. American Journal of Sociology, 1991. 2 pages. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Territorial Gardens” to appear in Culture and the Market. R.Teichgraeber and T. Haskell. (eds.) Cambridge. BOOK CHAPTER 1993.
  • Mukerji, Chandra. Review of Gaye Tuchman’s Edging Women Out and Gilbert and Gubar’s No Man’s Land in Contemporary Society. REVIEW ARTICLE 1990.
  • Mukerji, Chandra.“Popular Culture”, in Encyclopedia of Sociology edited by Borgatta and Borgatta, MacMillan, 1992. CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra. " Review of Space Technology and Planetary Science by Tatarewicz in American Journal of Sociology, Nov. 1991. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Scientific Techniques and Learning" In Cozzens and Bud, Instrumentation and Science. SPIE, 1992. CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Why UCSD Needs the Department of Communication to Have a Spoiled Identity." ComNotes. Spring, 1992. ESSAY
  • Mukerji, Chandra. Review of Architecture, Power and National Identity, by Lawrence Vale. Contemporary Sociology. July 1993. REVIEW
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Reading and Writing with Nature" in John Brewer and Roy Porter, Consumption and the World of Goods. Routledge, 1993. BOOK CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Toward a Sociology of Material Culture" in New Development in the Sociology of Culture BOOK CHAPTER by Diana Crane. Blackwell. 1994.
  • Mukerji, Chandra."The Collective Construction of Scientific Genius" in a collection on Work and Communication edited by Y. Engeström and David Middleton. Cambridge University Press. 1997. BOOK CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "The Political Mobilization of Nature in French Formal Gardens." Theory and Society. 23:651-677, 1994. JOURNAL ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra. Review of Mark Schneider, Culture and Enchantment. American Journal of Sociology. 1994. BOOK REVIEW
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Design and Development: Lessons from History." Proceedings of the International Conference on International Marketing and Development. pp. 1-3, 1994. ESSAY
  • Mukerji, Chandra. Review of Paul Hoynigen-Huene, Reconstructing Scientific Revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's Philosophy of Science. Alexander Levine (trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993, and Howard Margolis, Paradigms and Barriers: How Habits of Mind Govern Scientific Beliefs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. To appear in Journal of the Geological Society of America.; 1995. ESSAY REVIEW
  • Mukerji, Chandra. "Shakespeare in L.A.: A Commentary" Litteraria Pragensia Vol. 6, No. 12, pp. 13-25. 1996. JOURNAL ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra. Cohen, Becky and C. Mukerji, The Gardens of Le Nôtre. La Jolla Atheneum, 37pp. 1996. CATALOG
  • Mukerji, Chandra, Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles. Cambridge University Press. 1997. BOOK
  • Mukerji, Chandra, Review of Jack Goody, The Culture of Flowers Theory and Society. Vol. 25. 1996. REVIEW ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra, "Animals, Monsters, and Muppets" in Elizabeth Long, Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture. Blackwell, 1997. BOOK CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra, Review of Susan M. Pearce, On Collecting: An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition.(1995), Isis, Vol. 88(3) September 1997. BOOK REVIEW
  • Mukerji, Chandra and Bart Simon, "Out of the Limelight: Informal Communication and Computers." Special Issue of Sociological Inquiry. Edited by Karen Cerulo. JOURNAL ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra, "Unspoken Assumptions: Voice and Absolutism in the Court of Louis XIV." Journal of Historical JOURNAL ARTICLE Sociology vol 2, no. 3:283-315. September 1998.
  • Mukerji, Chandra and Nic Sammond, "What you are I Wouldn't Eat: Race in Hollywood Film" Bernardi (ed.) Classic Race and the Hollywood Studio System. University of Minnesota Press, 2000. BOOK CHAPTER IN PRESS TO PUBLISHED
  • Mukerji, Chandra, "Social Organization of Science," contribution for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil Smelser and Paul Baltes. Pergamon Press, 2001. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY IN PRESS TO PUBLISHED.
  • Mukerji, Chandra and Tarleton Gillespie, ""Recognizable Ambiguity: Cartoon Imagery and American Childhood in Animaniacs. In Symbolic Childhood, by Dan Cook (editor) (Peter Lang Publishers Press). pp.274-254. 2002. BOOK CHAPTER IN PRESS TO PUBLISHED
  • Mukerji, Chandra, "Engineering and French Formal Gardens in the Reign of Louis XIV." J.D. Hunt (ed). New Directions in Garden History. (U. of Penn. Press). pp.22-47. 2002 BOOK CHAPTER IN PRESS TO PUBLISHED
  • Mukerji, Chandra, "Dress and Address: Garden Design and Material Identify in 17th-Century France," in Dianne Harris and Mirka Benes (eds.), Villas and Gardens Early Modern Italy and France. (Cambridge University Press). pp. 249-270 2001 BOOK CHAPTERIN PRESS TO PUBLISHED
  • Mukerji, Chandra, “Bourgeois, Culture and French Gardening in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” in Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art: 1550-1850, in Michel Conan (ed.) (Dumbarton Oaks Press: Washington DC) pp.173-187 2001. BOOK CHAPTER IN PRESS TO PUBLISHED
  • Mukerji, Chandra, “Material Practices of Domination: Christian humanism, the built environment, and techniques of Western power,” Theory and Society 31:1-34, 2002. NEW JOURNAL ARTICLE
  • Mukerji, Chandra, “Printing, Cartography, and Conceptions of Place in Renaissance Europe,” in David Woodward, History of Cartography, vol. IV. (University of Chicago Press) 2003 NEW BOOK CHAPTER IN PRESS
  • Mukerji, Chandra, “Cartography, Entrepreneurialism, and Power in the Reign of Louis XIV,” in Pamela Smith and Paula Findlen, Merchants and Marvels (Routledge) ppp.248-276. 2002. C.32 FROM WORK IN PROGRESS ACCEPTED TO PUBLISHED BOOK CHAPTER
  • Mukerji, Chandra, “Dominion, Demonstration, and Domination: Religious Doctrine, Territorial Politics and French Plant Collection,” in Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, eds. Botany in Colonial Connection. 2002. NEW IN PRESS

UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL

  • Mukerji, C. "Frederick Wiseman's Films," Amherst College, December 1971. PUBLIC LECTURE
  • Mukerji, C. "Careers in the Media," Simmons College, April 1972. PUBLIC LECTURE
  • Mukerji, C. "Security Systems and Watergate," Massachusetts Sociological Association, 1974. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Play and Creativity: A Study of Games Played by Student Filmmakers," Eastern Sociological Association, April 1974. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Politics of the Soundtrack: Language, Dominance and Distribution of Films," Conference on Politics, Social Theory and the Arts, April 1975. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Indian Film," Popular Culture Association of the West Coast, February 1976. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Artwork: Collection and Contemporary Culture," Pacific Sociological Association, April 1977. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Post-Colonial Mentality in Popular Third World Film," Popular Culture Association, April 1977. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Bullshitting: Road Lore Among Hitchhikers," Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, November 1977. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Bullshitting: Road Lore Among Hitchhikers," Sociology Department "Brown Bag" Colloquium, University of California, San Diego, 1977. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Women and Film," Course by Newspaper Popular Culture, March 1978. NEWSPAPER COURSE
  • Mukerji, C. "Mass Culture and the Modern World-System," Midwest Sociological Society, April 1978. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "A New World," Communications Program Colloquium, University of California, San Diego, December 1978. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Mass Culture and the Modern World-System," Southern California Early Modernists, April 1979. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "A New World: Printed Maps and the Modern World- System," American Sociological Association, August 1979. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Performance Art: Art as a Service," Conference on Politics, Social Theory and the Arts, Chicago, April 1980. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Development of Fashionable Change," Pacific Sociological Association Meetings, April 1980. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Book of Nature," American Sociological Association Meetings, August 1980. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "How do Communications Technologies Shape Society?" Symposium on Communications Media and Social Integration, Annenberg School, University of California, 1982. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "A New World: Maps as Capital Goods for the World System," Colloquium, Sociology Department , University of California, Berkeley, November 1982. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Culture and the Industrial Revolution," Popular Culture Association, April 1983.PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Visualization and Cognition: The Case of Maps," Symposium on Visualization and Cognition, University of California, San Diego, May 1983.PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Visualization and Cognition," Ecole des Mines, Paris, December 1983. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Embodiment of Culture," American Sociological Association, August 1987. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Cultivating Power," Victoria and Albert Museum, June 1987. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Embodiment of Culture," Ecole Normale Superieure, June 1987. (See pages 2-3 of vitae for full citation.) PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Alienating Character of Technique in Science," presented at 4S Meetings, Worcester, MA, November 1987. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Cultivating Power," PSA Meetings, April 1988. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Voice of Science," UC Irvine, November 1988. Conference on Work and Communication, July 1988. Revised and presented at the Sociology for the Social Study of Science Meetings, Amsterdam, November 1989, as "The Communication System of Science." PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Creation and Surveillance of Experts in American Science," American Sociology Association, 
  • Atlanta, August 1988. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Scientific Myths and Laboratory Signatures," University of Bielefeld, Germany, November 1988. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Reading and Writing with Nature," In the Colloquia on Culture and Consumption, Clark Library, April 1989. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Territorial Ambitions: The Convergence of Noble and Bourgeois Culture in 17th-century French Gardens." Conference on Culture and the Market, Murphy Institute, New Orleans, March 1990. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Material Culture and the Power of Science." Science Studies Seminar, UCSD, May 1993. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Political Mobilization of Nature in 17th- Century French Formal Gardens." CNRS, ISA Conference The Social Meaning of Nature, Chantilly, France. March 1993. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Allegorical Mobilization of Nature in French Formal Gardens." American Sociological Assn., 1992. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Visualization of Military Engineering in 17th-C France" Society for the Social Study of Science. Purdue University, November 1993. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Sociology of science and the Problem of Learning" Penrose Conference, Geological Society of America. San Diego, 1994. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Imagining Worlds of Action: Nature, Territory and Map Imagery in 17th-C France" Conference on Visualization in Science, Galveston, April 1994. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Period Eye: Social Structuring of Vision and the Practice of Science" Society for the Social Study of Science. New Orleans, October 1994. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Science and State Power in 17th-Century France." SKAT Session, ASA Meetings, Washington, D.C. August 1995. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Beauty and Hope: Social Dreams and Aesthetic Forms in Urban Design." Paper for Conference on Beauty in the City, St. Louis, October 2000. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Cartographic Nearsightedness and Powers of Place: The Early-Modern Fieldwork of Louis de Froidour." Paper for the 4S Meetings San Diego, October 1999. Revised January 2000. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Landscape Engineering and Power: The Material Politics of Land Control." Paper for the Conference on New Sources of Knowledge for Landscape History, Harvard University, March 1999. Revised July 2000. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Virtual Landscapes." Paper for the ICA Meetings, San Francisco, 1999. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "Storehouses to Stoves: Built Environments and the Early Dutch Plant Trade." Paper for the Conference on Dutch Culture, University of Pennsylvania. March 1999. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. and Nat Sims. "America's Future and French Gender Relations: Contradictions in Luc Besson's 'Fifth Element.'" Paper presented at the ASA Meetings, San Francisco, 1998. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. and Anna Szemere. "Compliance and Resistance in Cultural Reproduction: Stabilization of Social Change in 17th-C France and 20th-C Hungary. Presented at the ASA Meetings, Chicago, August 1999. PRESENTED PAPER
  • Mukerji, C. "The Political Maps of Nicolas de Fer: Humanist Geography, Political Pedagogy, and Map Imagery in early 18th-C France." Paper presented for the Con on the Enlightenment, Dublin, 6/1999. PRESENTED PAPER

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • The Canal du Midi: State Power, Cognitive Advantage and Territorial Politics in 17th-Century France. BOOK IN PREPARATION PROPOSAL
  • The Canal du Midi: State Power, Cognitive Advantage and Territorial Politics in 17th-Century France. Chapter One: Strategic Cognition and Material Control. BOOK CHAPTER IN PREPARATION
  • The Canal du Midi: State Power, Cognitive Advantage and Territorial Politics in 17th-Century France. Chapter Two: Tools and Techniques of Material Politics. BOOK CHAPTER IN PREPARATION
  • The Canal du Midi: State Power, Cognitive Advantage and Territorial Politics in 17th-Century France. Chapter Three: Distributed Cognition and the Alimentation System. BOOK CHAPTERIN PREPARATION
  • Material Culture Studies and Historical Sociology with with Patrtick Carroll-Burke. PAPER IN PREPARATION
  • “Pragmatism and Political Passion: American Moral Reasoning and French Sociology,” in Boltanski and Thevenot, (eds.), Les Rencontres: Sens de la Justice, Sens Critique. BOOK CHAPTER IN PREPARATION
  • “Commentary of Ann Swidler’s Talk of Love” Special Issue of Qualitative Sociology. JOURNAL ARTICLE IN PREPARATION
  • “Women Engineers and the Culture of the Pyrenees” Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt (eds.) Knowledge Making in Early Modern Europe. (University of Chicago Press). RESEARCH ARTICLE IN PREPARATION
  • “Intelligent Uses of Engineering and the Legitimacy of State Power” Technology and Culture. JOURNAL ARTICLE ACCEPTED
  • “Les Capacités Cognitives des Collectifs,” Sociologie et Cognition. IN PREPARATION