Megha Summer Pappachen
Program Area(s): Political Theory
Regional Specialization(s): Asia; United States
I work from the groundwork of Marxist, feminist, and postcolonial theory to study the international political economy; transnational solidarities and resistances; labor, and in particular, women's unpaid domestic labor. Methodologically, I am training in ethnography and oral history as interpretive companions to methods in political, economic, and cultural theory.
Conference Presentations:
- "Book Symposium: Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies." American Education Research Association, April 2022
Publications:
- Megha Summer Pappachen & Derek R. Ford. "Spreading Stupidity: Intellectual Disability and Anti-Imperialist Resistance to Bioinformational Capitalism." Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95006-4_13.
- Megha Summer Pappachen & Derek R Ford. “Historical Materialism: A Postdigital Philosophical Method.” Postdigital Research, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31299-1_7.
- Megha Summer Pappachen. "What is imperialism? An Introduction." Fundamentals of Marxism: Liberation School, September 20, 2021. https://www.liberationschool.org/09-what-is-imperialism-html-2/.
- Megha Summer Pappachen. "The Marxist Theory of the State: An Introduction." Fundamentals of Marxism: Liberation School, June 30, 2023. https://www.liberationschool.org/marxist-state-theory-intro/.
- Megha Summer Pappachen. "Housework for Revolutionaries: Between Theory and Experience." Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University, 2020. https://scholarship.depauw.
edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi? article=1155&context= studentresearch - Summer Pappachen. "The Struggle for the International Hotel." Breaking the Chains Magazine, Winter 2021-22, Vol. 6 No. 2, 31-34. https://www.breakingthechainsmag.org/vol-6-no-2-til-all-the-flowers-bloom/