ABSTRACT
My objective in this chapter is to sketch the contours of a theoretical framework that explores the relationship between media, mobility, and transnationality. For several decades now, transnational connections between different parts of the world have been strengthened by the relative ease of international travel, the globalisation of capital and labour, and the transnational proliferation of communication technologies (Appadurai 1996; Appadurai and Breckenridge 1988; Glick Schiller et al. 1994; Gupta and Ferguson 1997; Hannerz 1996; Harvey 1989; Morley and Robins 1995; Ong 1999). In my ongoing research, I construct a feminist ethnography of how transnational public cultures mediate the social relationships, imaginations, and desires of gendered subjects at two nodes in a global circuit of images, texts, and commodities, New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area.
