Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories – serie
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Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore
The Gradual Disappearance of Untouchability 1872-1965
Av John Solomon
Häftad, 2019
709 kr
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Untouchable migrants made up a substantial proportion of Indian labour migration into Singapore in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During this period, they were subject to forms of caste prejudice and discrimination that powerfully reinforced their identities as untouchables overseas. …
Commodities and Culture in the Colonial World
Av Supriya Chaudhuri, Josephine McDonagh m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
709 kr
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Commodity, culture and colonialism are intimately related and mutually constitutive. The desire for commodities drove colonial expansion at the same time that colonial expansion fuelled technological invention, created new markets for goods, displaced populations and transformed local and …
Subalternity and Religion
The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia
Häftad, 2011
746 kr
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This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings …
Medical Marginality in South Asia
Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
Av David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji
Inbunden, 2012
2576 kr
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Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both …
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
Inbunden, 2012
2576 kr
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Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, …
Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora
Av Deana Heath, Chandana Mathur
Inbunden, 2010
2815 kr
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Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the …
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
Häftad, 2010
769 kr
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Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote …
Subalternity and Difference
Investigations from the North and the South
Inbunden, 2011
2501 kr
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Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘difference’ simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other. The authors explore the historical …
Subalternity and Difference
Investigations from the North and the South
Häftad, 2012
906 kr
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Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions …
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films
Inbunden, 2013
1608 kr
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Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his …
Hindi Cinema
Repeating the Subject
Inbunden, 2012
2501 kr
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Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the …
Unarchived Histories
The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world
Inbunden, 2013
2576 kr
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For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to …
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
Inbunden, 2009
2576 kr
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Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote …
Subalternity and Religion
The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia
Inbunden, 2010
2733 kr
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This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings …
Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought
The Radical Unspoken
Inbunden, 2013
2876 kr
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Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence – through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body – across the textual …
Communalism and Globalization in South Asia and its Diaspora
Av Deana Heath, Chandana Mathur
Häftad, 2013
769 kr
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Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the …
Unarchived Histories
The "mad" and the "trifling" in the colonial and postcolonial world
Häftad, 2017
776 kr
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For some time now, scholars have recognized the archive less as a neutral repository of documents of the past, and rather more as a politically interested representation of it, and recognized that the very act of archiving is accompanied by a process of un-archiving. Michel Foucault pointed to …
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films
E-bok, 2013
612 kr
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Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his …
New Indian Cinema in Post-Independence India
The Cultural Work of Shyam Benegal’s Films
E-bok, 2013
625 kr
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Shyam Benegal is an Indian director and screenwriter whose work is considered central to New Indian cinema. By closely analysing several of Benegal’s films, this book provides an understanding of India’s post-independence history.The book examines the filmmaker’s focus on women by highlighting his …
Subalternity and Religion
The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia
E-bok, 2010
864 kr
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This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings …
Subalternity and Religion
The Prehistory of Dalit Empowerment in South Asia
E-bok, 2010
864 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the relationship between mainstream and marginal or subaltern religious practice in the Indian subcontinent, and its entanglement with ideas of nationhood, democracy and equality. With detailed readings of texts from Marathi and Hindi literature and criticism, the book brings …
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
E-bok, 2009
890 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote …
Subaltern Citizens and their Histories
Investigations from India and the USA
E-bok, 2009
890 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Deploying the provocative idea of the ‘subaltern citizen’, this book raises fundamental questions about subalternity and difference, dominance and subordination, in India and the United States. In contrast to other writings on subordinated and marginalized people, the essays presented here devote …
Hindi Cinema
Repeating the Subject
E-bok, 2013
970 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the …
Hindi Cinema
Repeating the Subject
E-bok, 2013
949 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Hindi Cinema is full of instances of repetition of themes, narratives, plots and characters. By looking at 60 years of Hindi cinema, this book focuses on the phenomenon as a crucial thematic and formal code that is problematic when representing the national and cinematic subject. It reflects on the …
Medical Marginality in South Asia
Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
Av David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji
E-bok, 2013
1106 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both …
Medical Marginality in South Asia
Situating Subaltern Therapeutics
Av David Hardiman, Projit Mukharji
E-bok, 2013
1106 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of ‘subaltern therapeutics’ that both …
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
E-bok, 2012
890 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, …
Mixed-Race and Modernity in Colonial India
Changing Concepts of Hybridity Across Empires
E-bok, 2012
910 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the emergence of race was always shaped by affiliations based on religion, class, national identity, …
Subalternity and Difference
Investigations from the North and the South
E-bok, 2013
1074 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘difference’ simultaneously constitute and interrupt each other. The authors explore the historical …
