Media Indigeneity And Nation In South Asia

Author : Markus Schleiter,Erik de Maaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429755613

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Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia by Markus Schleiter,Erik de Maaker Pdf

How do videos, movies and documentaries dedicated to indigenous communities transform the media landscape of South Asia? Based on extensive original research, this book examines how in South Asia popular music videos, activist political clips, movies and documentaries about, by and for indigenous communities take on radically new significances. Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia shows how in the portrayal of indigenous groups by both ‘insiders’ and ‘outsiders’ imaginations of indigeneity and nation become increasingly interlinked. Indigenous groups, typically marginal to the nation, are at the same time part of mainstream polities and cultures. Drawing on perspectives from media studies and visual anthropology, this book compares and contrasts the situation in South Asia with indigeneity globally. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives (CC-BY-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Giorgio Milanetti,Marina Miranda,Marina Morbiducci
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788893772990

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The COVID-19 Pandemic in Asia and Africa by Giorgio Milanetti,Marina Miranda,Marina Morbiducci Pdf

The present publication has been conceived as a critical reflection, in different disciplinary fields, on the social, institutional, and cultural impact of the recent COVID-19 pandemic in Asia and Africa. The issues presented here were first discussed as part of a larger research project at two conferences, held in Rome in June and October 2022. After extensive revision, these results have now been collected as fully developed articles in the current two volumes: the first focuses on the cultural, artistic, and media-related facets of the pandemic; the second on its social and institutional implications. This Volume I examines the effects of the traumatic events brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic on various cultural phenomena, artistic expressions, and social media communication, analysing among other themes the creation of new narratives and the modalities of personal and collective responses. The articles cover vast geographical areas, spanning from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent and East Asia, and aim at making their multiple visions converge in one compact perspective of empathic connection.

Author : Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000422573

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Film, Media and Representation in Postcolonial South Asia by Nukhbah Taj Langah,Roshni Sengupta Pdf

This volume brings together new studies and interdisciplinary research on the changing mediascapes in South Asia. Focusing on India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, it explores the transformations in the sphere of cinema, television, performing arts, visual cultures, cyber space and digital media, beyond the traumas of the partitions of 1947 and 1971. Through wide-ranging essays on soft power, performance, film, and television; art and visual culture; and cyber space, social media, and digital texts, the book bridges the gap in the study of the postcolonial and post-Partition developments to reimagine South Asia through a critical understanding of popular culture and media. The volume includes scholars and practitioners from the subcontinent to foster dialogue across the borders, and presents diverse and in-depth studies on film, media and representation in the region. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of media and film studies, postcolonial studies, visual cultures, political studies, partition history, cultural studies, mass media, popular culture, history, sociology and South Asian studies, as well as to media practitioners, journalists, writers, and activists.

Author : Dan Smyer Yü,Erik de Maaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000397581

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Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas by Dan Smyer Yü,Erik de Maaker Pdf

Environmental Humanities in the New Himalayas: Symbiotic Indigeneity, Commoning, Sustainability showcases how the eco-geological creativity of the earth is integrally woven into the landforms, cultures, and cosmovisions of modern Himalayan communities. Unique in scope, this book features case studies from Bhutan, Assam, Sikkim, Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sino-Indian borderlands, many of which are documented by authors from indigenous Himalayan communities. It explores three environmental characteristics of modern Himalayas: the anthropogenic, the indigenous, and the animist. Focusing on the sentient relations of human-, animal-, and spirit-worlds with the earth in different parts of the Himalayas, the authors present the complex meanings of indigeneity, commoning and sustainability in the Anthropocene. In doing so, they show the vital role that indigenous stories and perspectives play in building new regional and planetary environmental ethics for a sustainable future. Drawing on a wide range of expert contributions from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanist disciplines, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental humanities, religion and ecology, indigenous knowledge and sustainable development more broadly.

Author : Jelle J.P. Wouters,Michael T. Heneise
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000598582

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Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia by Jelle J.P. Wouters,Michael T. Heneise Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Highland Asia is the first comprehensive and critical overview of the ethnographic and anthropological work in Highland Asia over the past half a century. Opening up a grand new space for critical engagement, the handbook presents Highland Asia as a world-region that cuts across the traditional divides inherited from colonial and Cold War area divisions - the Indian Subcontinent/South Asia, Southeast Asia, China/East Asia, and Central Asia. Thirty-two chapters assess the history of research, identify ethnographic trends, and evaluate a range of analytical themes that developed in particular settings of Highland Asia. They cover varied landscapes and communities, from Kyrgyzstan to India, from Bhutan to Vietnam and bring local voices and narratives relating trade and tribute, ritual and resistance, pilgrimage and prophecy, modernity and marginalization, capital and cosmos to the fore. The handbook shows that for millennia, Highland Asians have connected far-flung regions through movements of peoples, goods and ideas, and at all times have been the enactors, repositories, and mediators of world-historical processes. Taken together, the contributors and chapters subvert dominant lowland narratives by privileging primarily highland vantages that reveal Highland Asia as an ecumune and prism that refracts and generates global history, social theory, and human imagination. In the currently unfolding Asian Century, this compels us to reorient and re-envision Highland Asia, in ethnography, in theory, and in the connections between this world-region, made of hills, highlands and mountains, and a planetary context. The handbook reveals both regional commonalities and diversities, generalities and specificities, and a broad orientation to key themes in the region. An indispensable reference work, this handbook fills a significant gap in the literature and will be of interest to academics, researchers and students interested in Highland Asia, Zomia Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Politics, Conceptual History and Sociology, Southeast Asian Studies, Central Asian Studies and South Asian Studies as well as Asian Studies in general.

Author : Jelle J. P. Wouters,Tanka B. Subba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000636994

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The Routledge Companion to Northeast India by Jelle J. P. Wouters,Tanka B. Subba Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains authoritative entries from leading specialists from and on the region and offers clear, concise, and illuminating explanations of key themes and ideas. A hands-on, practical, and comprehensive guide to Northeast India, this companion fills a significant gap in the literature and will be an invaluable teaching, learning, and research resource for scholars and students of Northeast India Studies, South Asian and Southeast Asian societies, culture, politics, humanities, and the social sciences in general.

Author : Katharina Ruckstuhl,Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj,John-Andrew McNeish,Nancy Postero
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000770339

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The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Development by Katharina Ruckstuhl,Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj,John-Andrew McNeish,Nancy Postero Pdf

This Handbook inverts the lens on development, asking what Indigenous communities across the globe hope and build for themselves. In contrast to earlier writing on development, this volume focuses on Indigenous peoples as inspiring theorists and potent political actors who resist the ongoing destruction of their livelihoods. To foster their own visions of development, they look from the present back to Indigenous pasts and forward to Indigenous futures. Key questions: How do Indigenous theories of justice, sovereignty, and relations between humans and non-humans inform their understandings of development? How have Indigenous people used Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, and global governance systems to push for their visions? How do Indigenous relations with the Earth inform their struggles against natural resource extraction? How have native peoples negotiated the dangers and benefits of capitalism to foster their own life projects? How do Indigenous peoples in diaspora and in cities around the world contribute to Indigenous futures? How can Indigenous intellectuals, artists, and scientists control their intellectual property and knowledge systems and bring into being meaningful collective life projects? The book is intended for Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists, communities, scholars, and students. It provides a guide to current thinking across the disciplines that converge in the study of development, including geography, anthropology, environmental studies, development studies, political science, and Indigenous studies.

Author : Cristina Grasseni,Bart Barendregt,Erik de Maaker,Federico De Musso,Andrew Littlejohn,Marianne Maeckelbergh,Metje Postma,Mark R. Westmoreland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000484892

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Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography by Cristina Grasseni,Bart Barendregt,Erik de Maaker,Federico De Musso,Andrew Littlejohn,Marianne Maeckelbergh,Metje Postma,Mark R. Westmoreland Pdf

Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography is a state-of-the-art introduction to this dynamic and growing subject. The authors explain its fundamental aspects in a clear and systematic way. The chapters cover topics including: learning to see and listen in the field and the role of sensory attention the mediation of the senses doing anthropological fieldwork with video observational filmmaking ethnographic drawing multimodal anthropology digital ethnography interactive documentary the ethics and management of audiovisual and digital data. The result is a much-needed, up-to-date and concise guide to both the fundamental skills required for audiovisual and digital ethnographic production and the essential theoretical knowledge relating to this. It will be particularly useful for students and scholars in the fields of Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Media, Design, Art Practice and Sound Studies.

Author : Lennart Wouter Kruijer,Miguel John Versluys,Ian Lilley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781003861836

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Rooted Cosmopolitanism, Heritage and the Question of Belonging by Lennart Wouter Kruijer,Miguel John Versluys,Ian Lilley Pdf

This book explores the analytical and practical value of the notion of "rooted cosmopolitanism" for the field of cultural heritage. Many concepts of present-day heritage discourses - such as World Heritage, local heritage practices, or indigenous heritage - tend to elide the complex interplay between the local and the global - entanglements that are investigated as "glocalisation" in Globalisation Studies. However, no human group ever creates more than a part of its heritage by itself. This book explores an exciting new alternative in scholarly (critical) heritage discourse, the notion of rooted cosmopolitanism, a way of making manifestations of globalised phenomena comprehensible and relevant at local levels. It develops a critical perspective on heritage and heritage practices, bringing together a highly varied yet conceptually focused set of stimulating contributions by senior and emerging scholars working on the heritage of localities across the globe. A contextualising introduction is followed by three strongly theoretical and methodological chapters which complement the second part of the book, six concrete, empirical chapters written in "response" to the more theoretical chapters. Two final reflective conclusions bring together these different levels of analysis. This book will appeal primarily to archaeologists, anthropologists, heritage professionals, and museum curators who are ready to be confronted with innovative and exciting new approaches to the complexities of cultural heritage in a globalising world.

Author : Qingning Wang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000203714

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The Chinese Internet by Qingning Wang Pdf

This book discusses the use of the internet in China, the complicated power relations in online political communications, and the interactions and struggles between the government and the public over the use of the internet. It argues that there is a "semi-structured" online public sphere, in which there is a certain amount of equal and liberal political communication, but that the online political debates are also limited by government control and censorship, as well as by inequality and exclusions, and moreover that the government rarely engages in the political debates. Based on extensive original research, and considering specific debates around particular issues, the book analyses how Chinese net-users debate about political issues, how they problematize the government’s actions and policies, what language they use, what online discourses are produced, and how the debates and online discourses are limited. Overall, the book provides a rich picture of the current state of online political communication in China.

Author : Zhenhui Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000762464

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Ethnic Minority Children in Post-Socialist Chinese Cinema by Zhenhui Yan Pdf

This book examines the surprisingly large number of films about ethnic minority children in China, considering key questions such as Why are ethnic minority children becoming more intriguing to Chinese filmmakers? What are their roles in the films literally and allegorically? And how are they placed on screen geographically and why? It argues that ethnic minority children’s appeal lies in their special relationship with childhood, ethnicity, nationalism, and rurality; and that for dominant Han urban adults and elite ethnic minorities they serve as "the other" for these people’s construction of themselves as self-conscious modern subjects during China’s rapid social-political transformations. This book explores the diversity of ways in which both Han and ethnic minority filmmakers take up the special features of ethnic minority children to facilitate their expression of certain ideas or ideals, as well as the roles of these films in their directing careers.

Author : Shakuntala Banaji
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843318422

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South Asian Media Cultures by Shakuntala Banaji Pdf

'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.

Author : Wanning Sun,Ling Yang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000497236

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Love Stories in China by Wanning Sun,Ling Yang Pdf

This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of cultural and media forms including literature, film, television, music and new media, examines new cultural practices such as online activism, virtual intimacy and relationship counselling, and discusses how far love and romance have come to assume new shapes and forms in the twenty-first century. Love Stories in China offers deep insights into how the huge transformation of China over the last four decades has impacted the micro lives of ordinary Chinese people.

Author : Partha Nath Mukherji,Chandan Sengupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Globalization
ISBN : 8178293412

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Indigeneity and Universality in Social Science by Partha Nath Mukherji,Chandan Sengupta Pdf

Author : Tevita O. Ka'ili
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816530564

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Marking Indigeneity by Tevita O. Ka'ili Pdf

L'éditeur indique : "This book explores how Tongan cultural practices conflict with and coexist within Hawaiian society."