
Seeing South Asia
Visuals Beyond Borders
Routledge India (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 12. April 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-032-23319-2 (ISBN)
Description
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 sensorium, anxiety and politics of the visuals across the region and the trajectory of visual anthropology, significance of visual symbols and representations in contemporary performances and folk art, visual landscapes of loss and recovery and representation of refugees, visual public in South Asia and making of visuals for contemporary consumptions. The chapters unravel the concepts of visual, visibility, visuality while attending to determinant meta-ideas, such as memory and modernity, trajectories of tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and visual performative politics. Based on interdisciplinary resources, the chapters in this volume present a wide array of empirical findings across India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh, along with analytical readings of the visual culture of the subcontinent across borders.
The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.
The book will be useful to scholars and researchers of visual and cultural studies, social and cultural anthropology, sociology, political studies, media and communications studies, performance studies, art history, television and film studies, photography studies, and South Asian studies. It will also interest practitioners including artists, visual artists, photographers, filmmakers and media critics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
39 s/w Abbildungen, 39 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 1 s/w Tabelle
1 Tables, black and white; 39 Halftones, black and white; 39 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
491 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-23319-2 (9781032233192)
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Persons
Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty member of sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.
Biswajit Das is Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Ratan Kumar Roy was Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and is currently Coordinator of International Research Center, SIMEC Institute of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Biswajit Das is Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Ratan Kumar Roy was Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and is currently Coordinator of International Research Center, SIMEC Institute of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Editor
South Asian University, New Delhi, India
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
Content
1. Introduction - Visuals in South Asia: The Interface of Seen and Unseen Part I: Ways of Seeing and Showing 2. Vernacular Visual: Seeing in South Asia 3. Hermeneutic Sensorium: Positing a Methodological Dynamics of Seen-Unseen 4. Visual Anthropology in Nepal: A Critical Trajectory of Practices and a Way Forward Part II: Approaches, Representations and Politics 5. Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The 'Duplicitous Maiden' as a Narrative Theme in Gond Art 6. Transport Art of Dhaka: Where the Invisible City Becomes Visible 7. Visual Inscriptions upon Landscapes of Loss: Memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka 8. Seeing the Invisible: Anthropological Reflections on the Representation of the Rabari Community in Rajasthan Part III: Seeing Public and Mediation 9. South Asian Ways of Seeing: Towards a Visual Public Sphere 10. Visual Public in South Asia: Seeing and Showing in the Digital Sphere 11. Visibility of Sindhi Progressive Sufism in the New Media Domain of Pakistan 12. Visual, Visibility and Memory: Television in Everyday Life in Rajasthan Part IV: Image-Making and Manufacturing Meanings 13. Collective Making of Press Photographs: An Ethnographic Enquiry 14. The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya 15. Visual Matters: Unpacking Political Communication and Politics of the Camera