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  • Modern South Asian Thinkers

    Interface of Region and Universe

    This exceptional anthology brings together a collection of insightful expositions on modern South Asian thinkers and thoughts. Employing an encyclopedic approach, this volume delves deep into the intellectual history of South Asia, transcending traditional academic perspectives and exploring a rich tapestry of ideas from various sources across time. The book departs from the imported ideas of ... Leer más

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  • In Defence of the Ordinary

    Everyday Awakenings

    'A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life … in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco… The book is one of a kind.'-Prathama Banerjee is a noted historian of the global south and Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi.'[A] flâneur of our everyday spheres of life, [the ... Leer más

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  • Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia

    Subjectivities and Spatiality

    Edición de Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak ...
    This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the affective socio-spatial and sensorial experiences of non-metropolitan, small and intermediate cities, the chapters in the volume look at neighbourhoods as a key to exploring the textures of urban life. Bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines including sociology, ... Leer más

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  • Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia

    Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

    Edición de Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak ...
    This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh ... Leer más

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  • Seeing South Asia

    Visuals Beyond Borders

    This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic ... Leer más

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  • Neighbourhoods in Urban India

    In Between Home and the City

    '…a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects…. Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.'-Gyan ... Leer más

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  • Against the Nation

    Thinking Like South Asians

    Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that ... Leer más

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  • Investigating Developmentalism

    Notions of Development in the Social Sphere

    Edición de Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development. It introduces ways of thinking “otherwise” about development discourse and what the contributors term ... Leer más

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  • Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia

    Decoding Visual Worlds

    Edición de Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Taking South Asia as its focus, this wide-ranging collection probes the general reluctance of the cultural anthropology to engage with contemporary visual art and artists, including painting, sculpture, performance art and installation. Through case studies engaged equally in anthropology and visual studies, contributors examine art and artistic production in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh ... Leer más

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  • Culture and Politics in South Asia

    Performative Communication

    Edición de Dev Nath Pathak, Sasanka Perera ...
    This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring countries. From gender performances and stage depictions to protest movements, folk songs to cinematic reconstructions and elections to war-torn regions, ... Leer más

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