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Against the nation: thinking like South Asians/ Sasanka Perera, Dev Nath Pathak and Ravi Kumar

By: Perera, SasankaContributor(s): Pathak, Dev Nath | Kumar, RaviPublication details: New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019Description: xxii, 262 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9789388630221Subject(s): South Asia | Civilization | Politics and cultureDDC classification: 954

Contents:

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.

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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.

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