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Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral chirographic and digital cultures. It examines oral cultures of memory culled from diverse geographical and cultural landscapes of India and throws light on multiple aspects of remembering and registering the varied cultural tapestry of the country. The book also explores themes such as oral culture and memory markers; memory and its paratextual services; embodied memory practices in the cultural traditions; between myths and monuments; literary and lived experiences; print culture and memory markers; marginalized memories in hagiographies; displaying memories online; childhood trauma memory and flashbacks; and the politics of remembering and forgetting. Rich in case studies from across India this interdisciplinary book is a must-read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies sociology political science English literature South Asian studies social anthropology social history and post-colonial studies. | Media Technology and Cultures of Memory Mapping Indian Narratives

GBP 130.00
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Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

Part anthropological history and part memoir this book is a unique study of the polity of the colonial-princely state of Kanker in central India. The author a scion of the erstwhile ruling family of Kanker delves into the oral accounts given in the ancestral deity practices of the mixed tribe-caste communities of the region to highlight popular narratives of its historical polity. As he struggles with his own dilemmas as ethnographer-king what comes into view is a polity where the princely state is drawn out amidst a terrain of gods and spirits as much as that of law courts and magistrates and political power is divided contested and shared between the raja/state and the people. This study constitutes not only an intervention in the larger debate on the relationship between state formations and tribal peoples but also on the very nature of history as a knowledge practice especially the understandings of power authority and sovereignty in it. Combining intensive ethnography complementary archival work and crucial theoretical questions engaging social scientists worldwide the author charts an unusual explanatory path that can allow us to obtain a meaningful understanding of societies/peoples that have historically been marginalized and seen as different. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of history anthropology politics religion tribal society and Modern South Asia. | Kings Spirits and Memory in Central India Enchanting the State

GBP 38.99
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The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs fiction poetry film art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across the Global South and provided a significant template for contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin America Africa Asia and Australia this book illuminates the modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of human rights popular culture and art literature media politics and history. | The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

GBP 39.99
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Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

Dance Matters Too: Markets Memories Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009) which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of the field. The chapters presented here continue to underline the uniqueness of a field that is a blend of critical scholarship on aesthetics and performance with the humanities and social sciences. Including diverse material analytical approaches and perspectives from scholars and practitioners this multidimensional volume explores debates on dance preservation and tradition in globalizing India multimedia choreographies and the circulation of dance via electronic media embodiment and memory power democracy and bourgeoning markets classification and censorship and corporatization and Bollywood. This tour de force will appeal to those in dance and performance studies cultural studies sociology as well as to readers interested in tradition modernity gender and globalization. | Dance Matters Too Markets Memories Identities

GBP 38.99
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Identities in South Asia Conflicts and Assertions

Identities in South Asia Conflicts and Assertions

This book examines how identities are formed and expressed in political social and cultural contexts across South Asia. It is a comprehensive intervention on how why and what identities have come to be and takes a closer look at the complexities of their interactions. Drawing on an interdisciplinary approach combining methodologies from history literary studies politics and sociology this book: • Explores the multiple ways in which personal and collective identities manifest and engage are challenged and resisted across time and space. ;• Highlights how the shared history of colonialism and partition communal violence bloodshed and pogrom are instrumental in understanding present-day developments in identity politics. ;• Sheds light on a number of current themes such as borders and nations race and ethnicity identity politics and fundamentalism language and regionalism memory and community and resistance and assertion. A key volume in South Asian Studies this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history politics sociology literary studies and social exclusion. | Identities in South Asia Conflicts and Assertions

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Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement Literature Culture and Society in South Asia

Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement Literature Culture and Society in South Asia

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women’s perspective on issues related to displacement loss conflict and rehabilitation. It maps the diverse engagements with women’s experiences of displacement in the South Asian region through a nuanced examination of unexplored literary narratives life writing and memoirs cultural discourses and social practices. The book explores themes like sexuality and the female body women and the national identity violence against women in Indian Partition narratives and stories of exile in real life and fairy tales. It also offers an understanding of the ruptures created by dislocation and exile in memory identity and culture by analyzing the spaces occupied by displaced women and their lived experiences. The volume looks at the multiplicity of reasons behind women’s displacement and offers a wider perspective on the intersections between gender migration and marginalization. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of cultural studies literature gender studies conflict studies development studies South Asian studies refugee studies diaspora studies and sociology. | Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement Literature Culture and Society in South Asia

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Aesthetics across Cultures Intertextuality Intermediality and Interculturality

Aesthetics across Cultures Intertextuality Intermediality and Interculturality

This book critically examines the mutual illuminations between literature religion architecture films performative arts paintings woodworks memes and masks cutting across time and space. Architecture is a good example where the eventual success of a project depends on the harmony between physical sciences and aesthetics design and planning knowledge of building material the local climate and awareness of cultural sensibilities. This volume affirms that aesthetics and arts are deeply linked through existential issues of who I am. The chapters in this volume present diverse discursive structures highlighting the in-between spaces between various art forms and mediums such as: • Architecture literature and memory • Kafka in SoHo; Kafka and Bernhard • Kirchner’s woodcuts; pictorial and stage representations of E. T. A. Hoffmann • Hesse’s fairy tales; translations of Pañcatantra • Nietzsche ritual arts and face masks; martyrdom in La chanson de Roland • Goethe and Hafiz; Indian thought in Martin Buber • Rhythms of the Third across cultures • Dadaism and contemporary memes This book examines these sublime linkages in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. Engaging and intersectional this volume will appeal to students and scholars of arts and aesthetics literature philosophy architecture sociology translation studies and readers who are interested in cultural intertextual intermedial and comparative studies. | Aesthetics across Cultures Intertextuality Intermediality and Interculturality

GBP 130.00
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Gandhi's Moral Politics

Gandhi's Moral Politics

This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements. It presents a set of enlightening essays based on lectures delivered in memory of the eminent historian B. R. Nanda along with a new introductory essay. With contributions by leading historians and Gandhi scholars the book provides new perspectives on the limits of Gandhi’s moral reasoning his role in the choice of destination by Indian Muslim refugees his waning influence over political events and his predicament amid the violence and turmoil in the years immediately preceding partition. The work brings together wide-ranging insights on Gandhi and revisits his religious views which were the foundation of his morality in politics; his experience of civil disobedience and its nature deployment and limits; Satyagraha and non-violence; and his struggle for civil rights. The volume also examines how Gandhi’s South African phase contributed to his later ideas on private property and self-sacrifice. This book will be of immense interest to researchers and scholars of modern Indian history Gandhi studies political science peace and conflict studies South Asian studies; to researchers and scholars of media and journalism; and to the informed general reader.

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Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

Why has history so often turned the economic and political hierarchy of nations topsy-turvy? This book examines the evidence of the last 500 years to challenge the two dominant narratives on the answers to this question. It argues that the explanation lies neither in the quality of institutions that societies possess nor in their capacities for technological innovation. What matters for the economic and political success of a country it claims is the interaction between current technological knowledge and global demand on the one hand and its geography and the population it inherits from its past on the other. Those societies succeed whose endowments best fit the requirements of current technology and world demand. It hardly matters who developed the technology. In the process of examining the patterns that inform the fates of nations over time Reversals of Fortune charts the economic histories of Western Europe and Asia from the sixteenth century to the present day. A compelling tour de force this book reshapes and rethinks global history. The volume will be a fascinating read for scholars of history and economics especially economic history and human geography. | Reversals of Fortune Why the Hierarchy Of Nations So Often Turns Topsy-Turvy

GBP 42.99
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