1st Edition

Globalization and Sense-Making Practices Phenomenologies of the Global, Local and Glocal

Edited By Simi Malhotra, Zahra Rizvi, Shraddha A. Singh Copyright 2024
296 Pages
by Routledge India

296 Pages
by Routledge India

296 Pages
by Routledge India

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an... Read more

Section One: Traversing Acoustic Spaces

 

1.   On Acoustic Justice

Brandon LaBelle

 

2.    Björk’s Posthuman Hypomnemata and the Future of Music Video

Susan George

 

3.    Through Afterhours: Spatiality and Post-Fordist Unbecoming

Ayush Biswas

 

4.    Singing Rivers: Spatial Discourses and Milieu-Specific Analysis

      Steven S. George

 

Section Two: Mapping Artistic Spaces

 

5.      Creolisers, Collaborators, Tastemakers, and the Weavers of Thieux Translation and Exegesis of a Short Story by Ari Gautier

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

 

6.      Filling the Silver Dots: Cognitive Militarism, Populist Healing Practices and the Rise of the Neo-Gestalt Guru

Umar Nizaruddin

 

7.      Spacial Poems. On planetary communication through multisensory artistic performance

Pawel Michna

 

8.      Taste of Choice: Making Sense of Food in the Indian Blogosphere

Sakshi Dogra

 

Section Three: Reorienting Narrative Spaces

 

9.      Articulating Shakespeare Globally

David Schalkwyk

 

10.   Mapping Dalit Women’s Lifeworld in Bama’s Narratives

Nishat Haider

 

11.  The poet as a queer flaneur: Envisaging the glocal city in the poetry of Frank O’Hara

Srinjoyee Dutta

 

12.  Reflections on Transnational Globalization in Olga Tokarczuk's Flights

Nishtha Pandey

 

13.  (En)countering the Oil in Malayalam Petrofiction and the Production of Proletariats

Grace Mariam Raju

 

Section Four: Charting Visual and Virtual Spaces

 

14.  Identities and Intensities: Comics as ‘Blocs of Sensation’

Ajith Cherian

 

15.  Unwittification of the collective subject: an exploration of the phenomenon of unwittification in Bird Box, Khudito Pashan and contemporary Covid-19 afflicted society

Soham Adhikari

 

16.  Interrogating political and urban cartographies of Delhi in Sarnath Banerjee’s Corridor and Vishwajyoti Ghosh’s Delhi Calm

Mohit Abrol

 

17.  Made in Heaven: Intersectionality and Hyperaesthetics in the making of Delhi and the ‘Dilliwala’

Namita Paul

 

18.  Unreal City: Expressions of Tokyo in Video Games

Lakshmi Menon

 

19.  Representing Asia in Cyberpunk Films: Race, Gender and Techno-Orientalism in Rupert Sanders’ Ghost in the Shell

Deeksha Yadav

 

Index

Biography

Simi Malhotra, Professor, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Zahra Rizvi, Ph.D. Scholar, Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Shraddha A. Singh, Associate Professor, Department of English, Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India.

"The essays in this volume embody a variety of phenomenological approaches in exploring different sensory environments and social spaces while being sensitive to questions of cultural difference. A unique and significant contribution to the literature on sense-making."

Dipesh Chakrabarty

"This timely collection of essays marks a deepening of the global dialogue on the way in which sensory regimes mediate experiential specifics and shape the ways through which forms of the body and the body of forms co-produce one another. The range of examples in this collection is an eloquent reminder of the endless variety of human phenomenological archives."

Arjun Appadurai