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Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge - Imagining South Asia (Hardcover)
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Designing (Post)Colonial Knowledge - Imagining South Asia (Hardcover)
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Over the past 20 years we have seen critical design studies emerge
as a springboard for scholars, activists, and those working in the
creative industries. Design studies has enabled critics to link the
relationship between constructions of knowledge and the emotional
commitments that both practitioners and audiences bring to the
making and uses of design work. A critical focus on these practices
can reveal issues such as the distribution of power and emotional
evocations and experiences in and through different designs. At the
same time, the use of design studies has drawn on diverse fields
such as art history, architecture, public policy, and Geographic
Information Systems. This collected volume, the first of its kind,
engages with these fields of critical inquiry with ideas and
debates in post-colonial studies, and in media and cultural
studies. It contributes to a growing body of scholarship that
examines material culture and its relationship between design and
its construction of knowledge about multicultural identities in the
colonial and postcolonial periods, with a focus on South Asia. The
chapters pose questions about colonial history, colonial and
postcolonial cultural practices, and the aestheticization of South
Asian art, design, and media forms as they inform identities in a
deterritorialized global culture. The sites of the investigation by
the contributors reflect the interdisciplinarity of design studies
and share the insistence on emphasizing the vernacular: Indian
fashion design, lithographic design in Muslim princely states, and
Indian floor drawings live alongside museum exhibitions, shopping
malls, and film spaces. This book was originally published as a
special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
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