Seeing South Asia

This book critically examines the cultural politics of visuals in South Asia. It discusses themes such as the vernacular visual and ways of seeing; photography and anthropology; refugee representation; and television news practices to explore modernity and tradition, fluidity and hybridity, and political economic and performative politics.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction Visuals in South Asia: The Interface of Seen and Unseen Part I: Ways of Seeing and Showing 2. Vernacular Visual: Seeing in South Asia 3. Hermeneutic Sensorium: Positing a Methodological Dynamics of Seen-Unseen 4. Visual Anthropology in Nepal: A Critical Trajectory of Practices and a Way Forward Part II: Approaches, Representations and Politics 5. Myths, and the Visual Imagination: The 'Duplicitous Maiden' as a Narrative Theme in Gond Art 6. Transport Art of Dhaka: Where the Invisible City Becomes Visible 7. Visual Inscriptions upon Landscapes of Loss: Memorialising Thileepan in Sri Lanka 8. Seeing the Invisible: Anthropological Reflections on the Representation of the Rabari Community in Rajasthan Part III: Seeing Public and Mediation 9. South Asian Ways of Seeing: Towards a Visual Public Sphere 10. Visual Public in South Asia: Seeing and Showing in the Digital Sphere 11. Visibility of Sindhi Progressive Sufism in the New Media Domain of Pakistan 12. Visual, Visibility and Memory: Television in Everyday Life in Rajasthan Part IV: Image-Making and Manufacturing Meanings** 13. Collective Making of Press Photographs: An Ethnographic Enquiry 14. The Vulnerability of Visual Vocabulary on Refugee Representation: The Voyage of Boatwo/men Rohingya 15. Visual Matters: Unpacking Political Communication and Politics of the Camera