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Against the nation :
Perera Sasanka
Against the nation : Thinking like South Asians - New Delhi Bloomsbury 2019 - HB
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. Beginnings: Against the Nation and Thinking Like South Asians. I. 'Official' Imaginings of South Asia and Its Contradictions: 1. SAARC Setbacks and Thinking beyond the Boundaries of Its Nation States. 2. Seeing Like South Asians: Moving beyond Narrow National Frames. 3. The Idea of South Asia: Beyond the Intellectual Dependence on the Statist Perspective. 4. Anxieties of SAARC: An Experiential Reading through South Asian University. 5. South Asia: Between Dream and Actuality. II. 'Unofficial' Reimagining of South Asia: 6. Beyond History, against the Present: Preliminary Thoughts on Reimagining 'South Asia'. 7. An Emotive-Intellectual Inclination to another South Asia! 8. Localising South Asia, Theoretically. 9. 'South Asia' as an Idea and a Problem of Modernity. III. Towards a South Asian Knowledge System: 10. In Defence of 'Area Studies' in South Asia. 11. Reclaiming Social Sciences and Humanities: Notes from South Asia. 12. Anthropological South Asia: Thinking through Utopias Amidst Intellectual Hegemonies. 13. Universities, Classrooms and Intellectuals: The Struggle to Create a South Asian Knowledge System. 14. Buddhist Categories, Contemporary World and Sociology: Incomplete Thoughts towards Possibilities of Social Theory and Modes of Thinking in South Asia. 15. Bringing the Thinking of Jiddu Krishnamurti into Politics. 16. Thinking of Myth and Folklore in the Twenty-first Century. IV. South Asia in Popular Politics: 17. Online South Asia and Its Mediated Politics. 18. A Melodramatic South Asia: Perusing a Performative-scape. 19. In the Frame of the Popular Cinema Despite the Hegemony of Hindi. 20. The Sound of Silence: Of the Shrinking Public Sphere in South Asia. 21. Reformulating South Asia: Artists' Travels and Possibilities of a New Cartography. 22. The Cultural Politics of Hatred in South Asia. Index. Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future
9789388630221
Civilization - South Asia
954 PER
Against the nation : Thinking like South Asians - New Delhi Bloomsbury 2019 - HB
Contents: Preface and Acknowledgements. Beginnings: Against the Nation and Thinking Like South Asians. I. 'Official' Imaginings of South Asia and Its Contradictions: 1. SAARC Setbacks and Thinking beyond the Boundaries of Its Nation States. 2. Seeing Like South Asians: Moving beyond Narrow National Frames. 3. The Idea of South Asia: Beyond the Intellectual Dependence on the Statist Perspective. 4. Anxieties of SAARC: An Experiential Reading through South Asian University. 5. South Asia: Between Dream and Actuality. II. 'Unofficial' Reimagining of South Asia: 6. Beyond History, against the Present: Preliminary Thoughts on Reimagining 'South Asia'. 7. An Emotive-Intellectual Inclination to another South Asia! 8. Localising South Asia, Theoretically. 9. 'South Asia' as an Idea and a Problem of Modernity. III. Towards a South Asian Knowledge System: 10. In Defence of 'Area Studies' in South Asia. 11. Reclaiming Social Sciences and Humanities: Notes from South Asia. 12. Anthropological South Asia: Thinking through Utopias Amidst Intellectual Hegemonies. 13. Universities, Classrooms and Intellectuals: The Struggle to Create a South Asian Knowledge System. 14. Buddhist Categories, Contemporary World and Sociology: Incomplete Thoughts towards Possibilities of Social Theory and Modes of Thinking in South Asia. 15. Bringing the Thinking of Jiddu Krishnamurti into Politics. 16. Thinking of Myth and Folklore in the Twenty-first Century. IV. South Asia in Popular Politics: 17. Online South Asia and Its Mediated Politics. 18. A Melodramatic South Asia: Perusing a Performative-scape. 19. In the Frame of the Popular Cinema Despite the Hegemony of Hindi. 20. The Sound of Silence: Of the Shrinking Public Sphere in South Asia. 21. Reformulating South Asia: Artists' Travels and Possibilities of a New Cartography. 22. The Cultural Politics of Hatred in South Asia. Index. Against the Nation invites readers to explore South Asia as a place and as an idea with a sense of reflection and nuance rather than submitting to conventional understanding of the region merely in geopolitical terms. The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future
9789388630221
Civilization - South Asia
954 PER