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Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
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Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures is a pre-emptive attempt to bring together the scattered writings of Ashis Nandy over his entire span of writing career and scan those scattered lectures, interviews, and writings including essays and columns for newspapers and journals for an in-depth analytical study. As the author himself explains, these are not his musings on static, time-bound issues, rather they capture how he confronts and negotiates the living past in the political, social, and cultural landscape of South Asia-starting from the manmade famine of 1943 to the Partition and freedom of India and the birth of Pakistan in 1947, the Bangladesh War in 1971, and the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka (1983-2009). The essays, often written as forewords to other scholars' works, straddle languages, systems of knowledge, and forms of voice and silence. Nandy attempts to identify a critical and intellectual strategy for survival in the Third World. He establishes that though a traumatic ambience-marred by aggressive development, instant nationalisms, or the brutalizing spectacles of modern nation-states-numbs one's imagination, it can also lead to new worldviews and multiple creative forms of resistance.
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
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This book narrates how Ayodhya's inhabitants experienced the events that led up to and followed the destruction of the Babri Masjid, the end-product of a century's effort to convert Hindus into a 'proper' modern nation. Woven into the narrative is an analysis of the culture of communal conflict, the nature of organized mass violence, and the political psychology of Hindu nationalism.
Häftad, Engelska, 1993
471 kr
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The word barbarian is derived from the Greek term 'barbaroi' - or one who cannot speak Greek. As the Greeks believed that language was the tool of reason, non-Greek speakers, therefore, were considered devoid of the facility to reason or to act according to logic. This concept of barbarism in turn shaped the early anthropological observations of Columbus and the first European visitors to the Americas.Barbaric Others examines the convenient myopia which through the ages has allowed - and continues to allow - the West to see other peoples as 'barbarians', infidels, even 'savages'. In the book, the authors present a succinct history of racism, xenophobia and the concept of 'otherness' from ancient Greece to the present day. Topics covered include the representation of the 'other' in mythology, the medieval fascination with demons and the idea of the wild man, a critical overview of Columbus and 15th century exploration and the 'other' as colonial subject.'[Constitutes] a bold attempt at the de-masking of the iconography of evil in out times. Full of factual detail, it seeks to crush the reader by the sheer weight of meticulously researched and daringly analysed historical information.' Muslim World Book Review'Barbaric Others provides a valuable introduction for the non-specialist reader to some of the tactics colonial nations have utilised to dominate the territories and peoples they have encountered.' Patterns of Prejudice
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
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This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The questions and perspectives this book presents provoke a thinking of cinema that is political in the widest sense – from cinemas importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to psycho-social perspectives on identity, class and gender.The contributors deal with a range of themes from the metaphor of the slum as a defining cultural phenomenon to personal reflections on the political meanings and strategies of South Asian film, from Tamil blockbusters to the intrinsic ineffectivity of TV as a propagator of state ideology. Whilst the book is essential reading for students and academics of film, media and of South Asian studies. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in the genuinely global phenomenon of South Asian cinema.
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Este clásico de la teoría crítica poscolonial analiza la conocida como "segunda colonización" y las resistencias frente a ella. Desafiando los estudios convencionales sobre dominación colonial, el libro examina el proceso ideológico cuyo objetivo es la dominación de la mente. Esa segunda colonización concibe el colonialismo como un campo de batalla cultural entre las formas de conocimiento tradicionales autóctonas y el carácter universalista de la modernidad occidental. Un fenómeno más complejo y determinante que la colonización física, porque sobrevive a los imperios, interiorizado en la forma de pensar, los valores y las visiones de la sociedad poscolonial. La obra ilustra ese proceso de colonización psicológica estudiando el caso de la India a través de figuras como Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling o George Orwell.La presente edición abre la puerta al lector en castellano a uno de los pensadores contemporáneos más originales a través de una obra, publicada por primera vez en 1983, que condensa sus principales ideas y teorías. Un texto fundamental para todo aquel interesado en el colonialismo, la psicología social y la crítica cultural.«''El Enemigo Íntimo'' insta a su lector a reflexionar sobre unos valores y unos códigos que, probablemente, consideraba universales y que, sin embargo, son reflejo de una construcción local derivada de unas experiencias particulares». (Revista Internacional de Estudios Asiáticos, UCR)."Sin duda, estamos ante una obra fundamental dentro de la llamada decolonialidad del ser y del giro decolonial en el psicoanálisis". (Le monde diplomatique)"Un libro provocador, absolutamente absorbente". (Journal of Asian Studies) "El psicólogo político Ashis Nandy, pionero del pensamiento crítico indio, a lo largo de los años se ha dedicado a profundizar en áreas distintas de las preocupaciones académicas habituales". (The Tribune)