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Seeing South Asia: Visuals Beyond Borders book cover

1st Edition

Seeing South Asia Visuals Beyond Borders

Edited By Dev Nath Pathak, Biswajit Das, Ratan Kumar Roy Copyright 2022
238 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

238 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

238 Pages 39 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It makes a key contribution to the study of visuals in the social sciences in South Asia by studying the interplay of the seen and unseen, and the visual and nonvisual. The volume explores interrelated themes including the vernacular visual and visuality, ways of seeing in South Asia and the methodology of hermeneutic... Read more

 1. Introduction – Visuals in South Asia: The Interface of Seen and Unseen

Dev Nath Pathak, Ratan Kumar Roy and Biswajit Das

 

Part I: Ways of Seeing and Showing

 

 2. Vernacular Visual: Seeing in South Asia

Sadan Jha

 

 3. Hermeneutic Sensorium: Positing a Methodological Dynamics of Seen-Unseen

Dev Nath Pathak

 

 4. Visual Anthropology in Nepal: A Critical Trajectory of Practices and a Way Forward

Fidel Devkota

 

 

Part II: Approaches, Representations and Politics

 

 5. Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The ‘Duplicitous Maiden’ as a Narrative Theme in Gond Art

Roma Chatterji

 

 6. Transport Art of Dhaka: Where the Invisible City Becomes Visible

Tabassum Zaman

 

 7. Visual Inscriptions upon Landscapes of Loss: Memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka

Malathi de Alwis

 

 8. Seeing the Invisible: Anthropological Reflections on the Representation of the Rabari Community in Rajasthan

Urmi Bhattacharyya

 

 

Part III: Seeing Public and Mediation

 

 9. South Asian Ways of Seeing: Towards a Visual Public Sphere

Amrita Ajay

 

 10. Visual Public in South Asia: Seeing and Showing in the Digital Sphere

Ratan Kumar Roy and Ridhi Kakkar

 

 11. Visibility of Sindhi Progressive Sufism in the New Media Domain of Pakistan

M. Rafiqe Wassan

 

 12. Visual, Visibility and Memory: Television in Everyday Life in Rajasthan

Biswajit Das

 

 

Part IV: Image-Making and Manufacturing Meanings

 

 13. Collective Making of Press Photographs: An Ethnographic Enquiry

Siddhi Bhandari

 

 14. The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya

Dilpreet Bhullar

 

 15. Visual Matters: Unpacking Political Communication and Politics of the Camera

Farhat Basir Khan

Biography

Dev Nath Pathak is a founding faculty member of sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi, India.

Biswajit Das is Professor and Founding Director of the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.

Ratan Kumar Roy was Research Fellow at the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India and is currently Coordinator of International Research Center, SIMEC Institute of Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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