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GENDISC Data
No full textThe data was generated for the 'Gender Discrimination in the Tarim Basin' project (GENDISC), based on the Kharosthi documents found at the Niya site located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. It provides details of find locations, royal titles, the types of complaints people made, and the subject of legal cases. The documents date to between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE
Diasporic audiences and non-resident media: The case of Indian films
Full text linkThis article seeks to demonstrate how various overlapping claims made by politicians, film producers and academics regarding diasporic audiences have constructed a particular model of cultural transmission emerging from a globalised mediasphere. Taking the case of popular Indian films and their global circulation, this article goes on to challenge the dominant ethnocultural explanations of popular culture and its circulation. Following a consideration of the empirical and epistemological faultlines arising from that paradigm, it is claimed that the tidy equation of media dispersal with migrant ethnicities is not only problematic in this specific case, but also that it provides for misleading conclusions about the relationship between cultural identity and media consumption. On reflection, it is argued that the epistemological foundation of global audience studies must provide for a greater recognition of the subjective and demographic diversity of audiences as well as the inherent hybridity and multiplication of media sources in everyday experience
Travel Worlds: Journeys in Contemporary Cultural Politics
No full textAfrican-American musicians head East for Kung-Fu kicks while paedophiles go for cheap sex pilgrimage; Western bible-bashers adopt missionary positions in India while heroic Saint George signs on as an Arab soldier in Britain; the scars of Partition mock the protocols of transit, while nomadic insurgents resist the Bangladeshi nation state with lyrical persuasion; Kula Shaker and Madonna trinketize the ‘Orient’ while dead tourists exchange values with travelling ‘terrorists’; British Mirpuris and Black women travel back to the ‘Old Country’ and beyond in ways that are not quite as they seem; and ethnographers collide with tourists in the carousel of Goa’s resorts.
Including poetry and fiction alongside academic essays, this book refuses simplistic dichotomies of north/south and east/west and confronts head on existing conventions of writing about travel in post-colonial, literary and cultural studies. In so doing, it sheds new light on: the shortcomings of border theories and nation-state parameters; the politics of diasporic and transnational travels, the relations between tourism and terrorism, the limitations of ‘alternative’ tourism
Of Mockery and Mimicking:Gaganendranath Tagore's Critique of Henri Bergson's Laughter (1911)
No full textThe article investigates the satirical prints made by artist Gaganendranath Tagore in twentieth-century Bengal. It places this overlooked series in a critical conversation with the writings on humour of French philosopher Henri Bergson
Rethinking waste: Time, obsolescence, diversity and democracy
No full textModern democracy has a strange sense of the concrete. It absorbs abstract categories, providing them with a tangibility by giving them attributes and propen sities. For example, the idea of citizenship evokes qualities of residence, entitlement, suggests rituals of voting. In a similar way, rights become a set of claims which is then hyphenated to a set of conceptual territories. It could be a right to life, property, information, education, health or development. As the list expands, the idea of rights inflates with gravitas and concreteness. But in turning citizenship or rights into ‘objects’, the idea of democracy acquires a sense of stock, becoming a basketful of claims or properties. While this has added much to the importance of persons and bodies, such an approach does not deal with time, the life cycle ritual, or the wider ecological processes that affect the livelihoods or security of a people. Time and cycles of life create not just new statuses but provide a sense of flow, fluidity and process to the life-world. Democracy as a framework of stock is different from democracy as flow. Flow brings a different set of subtleties to the democratic process. For example, citizenship seen as stock looks complete, bounded, spatially defined, but one needs a new set of concepts to understand situations where citizenship is incomplete
Of Mockery and Mimicking:Gaganendranath Tagore's Critique of Henri Bergson's Laughter (1911)
No full textThe article investigates the satirical prints made by artist Gaganendranath Tagore in twentieth-century Bengal. It places this overlooked series in a critical conversation with the writings on humour of French philosopher Henri Bergson
The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Sensual Milieus and Literary WorldsThe present chapter draws on the Introduction to a special issue of Ethnos, 78, 2 (2013) (see Fumanti and Werbner 2013). We are greatly indebted to the other contributors to the issue, Mark Johnson, Claudia Liebelt and Gabriele Shenar. We would also like to thank the editors and publisher of Ethnos for permitting us to use the Introduction, and in particular Nils Bubandt, Ethnos editor, and Raminder Kaur, editor of the present volume, for their perceptive and helpful comments.
No full textThe "trouble" with the "white working class": whiteness, class and "groupism"
No full textOver the course of the last two decades, ‘whiteness’ has exploded as an area ofacademic inquiry bringing together scholars from an array of academic disciplinesand generating significant new insights that have contributed to a morecomplex understanding of a racialised positioning often taken for granted as anormative, unmarked, even invisible system of privilege. Within this field, the‘white working class’ has come to assume an integral position. This categoryhas offered an analytic object through which notions of enduring white privilege,white victimhood, multicultural politics and white racism have all beenexplored. While there are clear and striking political problems within all ofthese dominant accounts, this article instead focuses on a more foundationaland related issue: that of the invocation of the ‘white working class’ itself
The 'trouble' with the 'white working class': whiteness, class and 'groupism'
No full textOver the course of the last two decades, ‘whiteness’ has exploded as an area ofacademic inquiry bringing together scholars from an array of academic disciplinesand generating significant new insights that have contributed to a morecomplex understanding of a racialised positioning often taken for granted as anormative, unmarked, even invisible system of privilege. Within this field, the‘white working class’ has come to assume an integral position. This categoryhas offered an analytic object through which notions of enduring white privilege,white victimhood, multicultural politics and white racism have all beenexplored. While there are clear and striking political problems within all ofthese dominant accounts, this article instead focuses on a more foundationaland related issue: that of the invocation of the ‘white working class’ itself
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