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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: 1. Series Note: Conversation on/for south Asia. 2. Preface and acknowledgements. 3. Introduction: A brief outline of the Context of the Conversation. 4. The Conversation. 5. Conclusion: Towards an Inconclusive Closure. Conversations on/for South Asia is an open-ended publication series launched by the Department of Sociology, South Asian University as an intellectual forum that would allow for inventing and re-inventing scholarship in and around the dynamic socio-political complexities of South Asian societies. The series would publish 'conversations' with South Asian scholars on vital issues of concern as well as other kinds of texts that would contribute to a critical and reflective understanding of the region. It is one of the main textual tools through which the Department of Sociology at South Asian University hopes to expand its thinking to the wider public domain in South Asia and the world.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Conversations on/for South Asia is an open-ended publication series launched by the Department of Sociology, South Asian University as an intellectual forum that would allow for inventing and re-inventing scholarship in and around the dynamic socio-political complexities of South Asian societies. The series would publish 'conversation' with South Asian scholars on vital issues of concern as well as other kinds of texts that would contribute to a critical and reflective understanding of the region. It is one of the main textual tools through which the Department of Sociology at South Asian University hopes to expand its thinking to the wider public domain in South Asia and the world. (jacket).

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface: Off and On Stage. Embryonic Intrigues: On Something and Nothing. 1. A Defence of the Ordinary, or Wishful Thinking. 2. Seeing, Ordinarily, the Seen and Unseen. When There Was Nothing. 3. Lullaby, Tales and Play in the Kindergarten. 4. Anger, Love and Intersections: A Scheme of Ordinary Emotions. 5. Lotus, Mud and Fear of a Sex Beast. 6. Jokes, Abuse, Friends, Enemies and Something Called In-laws. 7. Defiance, Rebellion and Protest: From Embryo to Artificial Intelligence. There Was Something. 8. Flirtatious, Lustful and Committed: An Ordinary Romance. 9. Match, Friendship and Marriage: Looking for Romance. 10. The Teacher, the Taught and Traditions: A Dream Lost. 11. I Am Nothing, Just a Teacher: A Dream Found. 12. Not the Owls of Minerva: Teachers in Higher Education! 13. Mundane Divinity, Rigid Religiosity and Everything Trivial. 14. Ordinary Gandhi in the Time of Extraordinary Gau-Raksha. Cacophony of Celebration? 15. Awry October, Fury of Festivity and Destruction of Virtues. 16. No Ram in the Rant. 17. Blissful and Blasé: Tourism versus Pilgrimage. 18. Models without Roles! 19. Our Ordinary Amitabh Bachchan: Politics, Prejudice and Pride. 20. Gandhi, Nehru and the Politics of Extraordinary Names. 21. Vernacular Cannibalism: When a Big Language Monster Eats Up Smaller Ones. 22. Spectacles of Success and Failure. Thou Shall Be There, Nonetheless. 23. Ordinary Art and the Quest for Distorted Icons. 24. Lost and Found, Friends and Enemies, Buried in Ordinary Trousseau. 25. Living and Dying, Medicine and Songs, and Folk Philosophy. Index. 'A splendid work of art, In Defence of the Ordinary returns drama, pleasure and awakening to everyday life in the tradition of cultural critics like Ashis Nandy and Umberto Eco The book is one of a kind.' -Prathama Banerjee is a noted historian of the global south and Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi. '[A] flaneur of our everyday spheres of life, [the author] excavates the multiple layers of social, political and artistic thinking and experimentation with an unparalleled lightness of prose worthy of a Balthasar Gracian and Georg Lichtenberg.' -Ramin Jahanbegloo is a philosopher and Vice Dean and Director at Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. '[The] book builds an engaging web of thoughts about things which are ordinary but in their very ordinariness hide deep social truths Dev Nath Pathak brings a lightness to his critical eye while reminding us of how much of the ordinary has been forgotten in academic pursuits.' -Sundar Sarukkai is a renowned philosopher and thinker in contemporary India. In Defence of the Ordinary is laced with light humour, soaked in serious sarcasm and powered with poetic polemics. Informed by sources such as psychoanalysis, philosophy, yoga, anthropology, popular cinema, folk songs and everything that is part of an ordinary living, it is a sociologist's sincere ruminations on the layered ordinariness. The book invites us to rethink the ways of seeing, understanding, enacting, emoting and relating with provocative ideas like why we don't value ordinariness and how our pursuit of extraordinary is misleading us into mishaps. The key objective of the human existence is that of the book too, namely, awakening the dormant potentials of emancipation every day rather than waiting for an occasional charisma induced by a holy book or a secular gimmick or an orchestrated leadership.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. A hermeneutic engagement with Maithili folk songs allows this book to hinge upon the notions of living and dying in the contemporary world despite the admission that medicine, insurance, market and media may condition human experiences. Amidst the binaries of union and separation, rigid religion and fluid faith, popular and folk, modernity and tradition, central to this book is the pluralism of cultural script(s) and their philosophical musings on living and dying, folk philosophy, cultural subversion as well as reconciliation. Predominantly sung by women, the folksongs of Mithila are woven around calendar of events, rites of the passage, and everyday life situations. The cultural scape of sound and sight thus conjures a fusion of epistemology and ontology, knowledge and existential being, the classical Sanskritic-textual and the folk subaltern-oral. Straddling the particular context of Maithili folksongs and the generic aspects of folk world view, steering across Hinduism, tradition and modernity, and folklore in the age of mechanical reproduction, this book contributes to the sociology and social anthropology of, inter alia, folklore, religion, gender and mythology. Moreover, this makes for a contribution into sociology and social anthropology of death in South Asia.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Foreword: Towards a Sociology from Unexpected Places and a Sociology of Possibilities in South Asia/Roma Chatterji. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction: Towards a Regional Framework in Disciplinary History and Practices/Ravi Kumar, Dev Nath Pathak and Sasanka Perera. Part I: Contents and Contours: 2. Western Dominance, Academic Dependency and Crisis in South Asian Sociology: Alternative Sociology Imaginations for the Post-national Context/Siri Gamage. 3. Legacies and Challenges of Sociological Traditions in South Asia/Sujata Patel. Part II: (Dis)contents in Legacies and Practices: 4. Deciphering Anthropology, Reckoning with Sociology: A Critical Self-assessment of the Practice of Sociology in/on Sri Lanka/Sasanka Perera. 5. Neoliberal Framework of Higher Education and the Possibilities of Doing Critical Sociology in India/Ravi Kumar. 6. Hybridising Sociology: A Challenge for Contemporary Sociological Research in Bangladesh/Shaikh Mohammad Kais. 7. Inequalities, Subjectivities and Resistance: In Search of a Comparative Sociology of Caste in India and Sri Lanka/Kalinga Tudor Silva. Part III: Possibilities amidst Paradoxes of the Contemporary: 8. Teaching Sociology in Nepal: Revisiting the Contemporary Concerns/Uddhab Prasad Pyakurel. 9. Possibility of Institutional and Individuated Sociology in Bhutan: An Enthusiastic Note Saroj Kumar Nepal 10. Possibilities in Doing Anthropology: Perspectives from Bangladesh/Ratan Kumar Roy. 11. Afghanistan as a Critical Lens on Current Challenges for Anthropology and Sociology/Nick Miszak and Alessandro Monsutti. Notes on the Contributors. Index. While intellectual practices always take place within a definite socio-cultural context, disciplinary histories and practices have overlapped with the territorial boundaries of nation-states in South Asia. As a result, the disciplinary history of India, for example, appears to have no relation with that of any other country in the region. Believing that disciplinary histories, even while engaging with the local and the national, are influenced by larger regional forces, Sociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia calls for a more complete understanding of history and culture in the region, over time and at specific moments. In the various chapters, sociologists and social anthropologists from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan show how social anthropology and sociology have worked as well as collapsed in South Asia, and how a more inclusive research agenda for this intellectually connected region can be imagined. The authors explore the nature and scope of the disciplines emerging in each context; evaluate the relationship between sociology and social anthropology within a historical framework; and focus on the contemporary status of the disciplines, given the increasing thrust towards development objectives and agendas set by NGOs in each country.

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. 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.

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