South Asian Technospaces

Author : Radhika Gajjala,Venkataramana Gajjala
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 082048122X

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South Asian Technospaces by Radhika Gajjala,Venkataramana Gajjala Pdf

This book provides perspectives on how South Asian - often, more specifically, Indian - diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and the roles of these factors in the global economy, Bollywood online and offline, digital music, websites for arranging marriages, and so on. The book attempts to map «South Asia» in relation to global technospaces produced through and as a consequence of economic globalization efforts.

Author : Radhika Gajjala
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759115132

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Cyber Selves by Radhika Gajjala Pdf

In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies, and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately views virtual communities as imbedded in real life communities and contexts, with human costs. The online discussions are visible, textual records of the discourses that circulate within real life communities. Her methodology involves a form of 'cyberethnography,' which explores the dialogic and disruptive possibilities of the virtual medium and of hypertext. Gajjala's work addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Internet communication explosion. This book will be a valuable reference for those with an interest in cultural studies, feminist studies, and new technologies.

Author : Radhika Gajjala
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783481170

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Digital Diasporas by Radhika Gajjala Pdf

When we work or play through digital technologies – we also live in them. Communities form, conversations and social movements emerge spontaneously and through careful offline planning. While we have used disembodied communication and transportation technologies in the past – and still do – we have never before actually synchronously inhabited these communicative spaces, routes and networks in quite the way we do now. Digital Diasporas engages conversations across a selection of contemporary (gendered) Indian identified networks online: “Desis” creating place through labour and affective network formation in secondlife, Indian (diasporic) women engaged in digital domesticity, to Indian digital feminists engaged in debate and dialogue through Twitter. Through particular conversations and ethnographic journeys and linking back to personal and South Asian histories of Internet mediation, Gajjala and her co-authors reveal how affect and gendered digital labour combine in the formation of global socio-economic environment.

Author : Roopika Risam,Rahul K. Gairola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000195392

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South Asian Digital Humanities by Roopika Risam,Rahul K. Gairola Pdf

The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows us to create new archives of the past but also to remember and commemorate the past differently. New maps transform how we understand space and place. And new digital comfort zones facilitate connections for those whose family and loved ones are only accessible online. Such interventions are essential to the recuperation of the integrity and soul of a people who have lived through and continue to shoulder the fraught and painful legacies of the British Empire and the communal bloodshed wrought by its demise. Building on the important history of digital humanities scholarship in South Asia and its diasporas that precedes this work, this book contends that South Asian studies is further positioned to offer a new genealogy of digital humanities, demonstrated through this assemblage of essays that reveal how the digital continues to shape notions of home, belonging, nation, identity, memory, and diaspora through a variety of humanistic methodologies and digital techniques. South Asian Digital Humanities thus demonstrates that postcolonial digital humanities has great possibility for creating some of the most important social justice scholarship in South Asian studies of the past century. It offers these essays as innovative interventions that complicate the digital cultural record while lodging a 'homelanding' for South Asians within it, positioning digital humanities as a method through which South Asian studies can strategically participate in the ongoing struggle for representation within digital knowledge production. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.

Author : Raj Pruthi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Customs unions
ISBN : OCLC:654119167

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The South Asian Free Trade Area by Raj Pruthi Pdf

Author : Moazzem Hossain,Iyanatul Islam,Reza Kibria
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415122880

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South Asian Economic Development by Moazzem Hossain,Iyanatul Islam,Reza Kibria Pdf

The notion that South Asian economies have tended to be less successful than those of East Asia is critically examined and the reasons why discussed. Countries covered include Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Key issues examined: * agriculture and rural development * labour market and human resource development * trade and industry policies * foreign investment and technological capabilities * foreign aid and economic development * financial development and economic performance * poverty, inequality and economic development * regional economic co-operation * 'green' development.

Author : B. Ramesh Babu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015042994056

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Globalization and the South Asian State by B. Ramesh Babu Pdf

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Author : Chakma, Bhumitra
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529205152

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South Asian Regionalism by Chakma, Bhumitra Pdf

Leading South Asia expert Bhumitra Chakma explains the politics of regionalism in South Asia and traces the origins and evolution of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) from its inception to the present day. He takes an International Relations perspective and engages three major IR theoretical approaches – neorealism, institutionalism and constructivism – to explain the complex dynamics of South Asian regionalism. Using comparative perspectives based on the experiences of similar regional organizations, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges of cooperation in the region and explores how progress might be made in the future.

Author : Adil Najam,Moeed Yusuf
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857280749

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South Asia 2060 by Adil Najam,Moeed Yusuf Pdf

“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia's future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia's regional future will impact the rest of the world while also shedding light on its present condition.

Author : John Hutnyk
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782792086

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Pantomime Terror by John Hutnyk Pdf

Pantomime is a theatrical form that has come to rule our everyday lives as terror. In the early years of the 21st century, a dissembling political demonology has sometimes placed otherwise merely lyrical musicians in a volatile predicament. The discussion here is of Fun-da-Mental's Aki Nawaz portrayed as a 'suicide rapper', Asian Dub Foundation striking poses from the street in support of youth in Paris and Algiers, and M.I.A., born free fighting immigration crackdown with atrocity video. Along the way, bus bombs, comedy circuits, critical theory, Arabian Nights, Bradley Wiggins, Dinarzade, Karl Marx, Paris boulevards, Molotov, Mao, the Eiffel Tower, reserve armies, lists, Richard Wagner, Samina Malik, Slavoj Žižek, Freudian slips, red-heads, Guantanamo. The book offers some sharp critiques of our contemporary complacency, and the failures of theory as more than ten years of war on terror turns anxiety at home and drone-strike assassinations abroad into a normal everyday. This pantomime is a terror story told over and over to distract from the workings of a despotic power. The need for an adequate (winning) counter-narrative was never more clear. ,

Author : G. Pillai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137285973

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The Political Economy of South Asian Diaspora by G. Pillai Pdf

The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume explores how transnational politics overlap with religious ideologies, media and culture amongst the diaspora, contributing to diasporic identity building in host countries.

Author : Dev Nath Pathak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : South Asia
ISBN : 9386552582

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Another South Asia! by Dev Nath Pathak Pdf

What does the idea/concept of South Asia mean in a time when borders have become absolute, predetermining our sense of self, culture, and politics? In a critical and creative engagement with this question, Another South Asia! attempts to explore novel possibilities beyond the stratagem of nation states. Amidst the shrinking utopias in the various disciplinary discourses due to the predominance of cartographic reason, the essays in this book propose a new lease to the utopian imagination of the region. Grounded in history, civilization, culture, and people across boundaries, located in the domain of post-disciplinary enquiries, this book enables a dialogue among the Sociologists and Social Anthropologists, students and scholars of International Relations, Literary and Performance studies, Art History, Diaspora studies, Historical and Civilizational studies and South Asian studies to name a few. This book will interest scholars as well as ordinary readers and persuade them to imagine another South Asia to ensure a better future of the region.

Author : Radhika Gajjala
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498517393

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Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South by Radhika Gajjala Pdf

Online Philanthropy in the Global North and South: Connecting, Microfinancing, and Gaming for Change offers a critical examination how online philanthropy operates through digital connectivity, affective networks of well-meaning digital givers, and the commodification of poverty through what is conceptualized as the “digital subaltern.” Chapters examine a range of online philanthropy settings such as online microfinance platforms and games for change, with case studies revealing unseen problems in how digital inclusion and financialization are attempted through the joint forces of NGOization and ITization.

Author : Raghbendra Jha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415553971

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Routledge Handbook of South Asian Economics by Raghbendra Jha Pdf

This title addresses the recent economic transformation in South Asia. Leading experts in the field look at the major economic achievements and challenges for the region and examine why economic development across the South Asia region has diverged so significantly since the early 1990s.

Author : Obert Bernard Mlambo
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031407543

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The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Africa by Obert Bernard Mlambo Pdf