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Terrains of Consciousness

Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization

By: Zeno Ackermann,Isabel Karremann,Simi Malhotra,Nishat Zaidi

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Terrains of Consciousness

Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization

By: Zeno Ackermann,Isabel Karremann,Simi Malhotra,Nishat Zaidi

TERRAINS OF CONSCIOUSNESS emerges from an Indian-German-Swiss research collaboration. The book makes a case for a phenomenology of globalization that pays attention to locally situated socioeconomic terrains, everyday practices, and cultures of knowledge. This is exemplified in relation to three topics: - the tension between 'terrain' and 'territory' in Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' as a pioneering work of the globalist mentality (chapter 1) - the relationship between established conceptions of feminism and the concrete struggles of women in India since the 19th century (chapter 2) - the exploration of urban space and urban life in writings on India's capital - from Ahmed Ali to Arundhati Roy (chapter 3).

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395826168X

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The Vernacular

Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

By: Hans Harder,Nishat Zaidi,Torsten Tschacher

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The Vernacular

Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

By: Hans Harder,Nishat Zaidi,Torsten Tschacher

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial settings. It addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of South Asia in relation to English. The authors explore the range of meanings the term has assumed and trace a history of contestation since the colonial age. They contend that though the ‘vernacular’ in South Asia has, since the nineteenth century, often operated as a hegemonic category relegating the languages thus designated to an inferior status, those languages (and other cultural formations labelled as ‘vernacular’) have also received empowering impulses and vested with qualities like groundedness and strength. The book highlights the need for a critical discussion of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ in the context of the ongoing rise of Anglophonia in South Asia as a whole and post-liberalisation India in particular. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and culture studies, history, postcolonial studies, and South Asian studies.

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1000937526

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Ocean as Method

Thinking with the Maritime

By: Dilip M Menon,Nishat Zaidi,Simi Malhotra,Saarah Jappie

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Ocean as Method

Thinking with the Maritime

By: Dilip M Menon,Nishat Zaidi,Simi Malhotra,Saarah Jappie

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade, migration, and economic processes, thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa, without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade, and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration, this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history, especially oceanic history, historiography, critical theory, literature, geography, and Global South studies.

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1000575314

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Terrains of Consciousness

Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization

By: Zeno Ackermann,Isabel Karremann,Simi Malhotra,Nishat Zaidi

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