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Given Australia's status as an (unfinished) colonial project of
the British Empire, the basic institutions that were installed in
its so-called 'empty' landscape derive from a value-laden framework
borne out of industrialization, colonialism, the consolidation of
the national statist system and democracy - all entities imbued
with British Enlightenment principles and thinking. Modernity in
Australia has thus been constituted by the importation, assumption
and triumph of the Western mind - materially, psychologically,
culturally, socio-legally and cartographically. 'Inside Australian
Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values' offers a critical
intervention into the continuing effects of colonization in
Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and
dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three
disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the
authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to
dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the
lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for
an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its
assumptions, history and limitations.
What is the nation? What is the idea of India? Whose India is it,
anyway? This inaugural volume in the series titled Rethinking India
aims to kickstart a national dialogue on the key questions of our
times. It brings together India's foremost intellectuals,
academics, activists, technocrats, professionals and policymakers
to offer an in-depth exploration of these issues, deriving from
their long-standing work, experience and unflinching commitment to
the collective idea of India, of who we can and ought to be. Vision
for a Nation: Paths and Perspectives champions a plural, inclusive,
just, equitable and prosperous India, committed to individual
dignity as the foundation of the unity and vibrancy of the nation.
In order to further disseminate these ideas-the vision for the
nation as aspirationally reflected in the Constitution-this book
provides a positive counter-narrative to reclaim the centrality of
a progressive, deeply plural and forward-looking and inclusive
India. It serves as a fresh reminder of our shared and shareable
overlapping values and principles, and collective heritage and
resources. The essays in the book are meaningful to anyone with an
interest in contemporary Indian politics, South Asian studies,
modern Indian history, law, sociology, media and journalism.
The word barbarian is derived from the Greek term 'barbaroi' - or
one who cannot speak Greek. As the Greeks believed that language
was the tool of reason, non-Greek speakers, therefore, were
considered devoid of the facility to reason or to act according to
logic. This concept of barbarism in turn shaped the early
anthropological observations of Columbus and the first European
visitors to the Americas. Barbaric Others examines the convenient
myopia which through the ages has allowed - and continues to allow
- the West to see other peoples as 'barbarians', infidels, even
savages'. In the book, the authors present a succinct history of
racism, xenophobia and the concept of 'otherness' from ancient
Greece to the present day. Topics covered include the
representation of the other' in mythology, the mediaeval
fascination with demons and the idea of the wild man, a critical
overview of Columbus and 15th century exploration and the 'other'
as colonial subject.
This book deals with an important and too-often ignored area of
cultural studies. To examine the enormous industry of Indian
popular cinema is to study Indian modernity at its very rawest. The
questions and perspectives this book presents provoke a thinking of
cinema that is political in the widest sense - from cinemas
importance in ideas of nation and national cultural formation to
psycho-social perspectives on identity, class and gender.
The contributors deal with a range of themes from the metaphor of
the slum as a defining cultural phenomenon to personal reflections
on the political meanings and strategies of South Asian film, from
Tamil blockbusters to the intrinsic ineffectivity of TV as a
propagator of state ideology. Whilst the book is essential reading
for students and academics of film, media and of South Asian
studies. It will also fascinate anyone with an interest in the
genuinely global phenomenon of South Asian cinema.
In this collection of essays, Ashis Nandy uses the metaphor of the
future -- imagined utopias, conceptions of cultural possibilities,
social critiques of things to come - to redefine the present.
Nandy's effort is to demonstrate that, in a world increasingly
dominated by a narrow range of ideologies, one must affirm that
social ethics and a more humane society can be based on grounds
other than those framed for the past 200 years by political and
psychological forces that have tried to flatten and homogenize the
world and reduce the possibility of diverse futures. Nandy
critiques the Enlightenment and the limited ideas of 'reason, '
'progress' and 'development' given shape in Europe. He insists that
we own up to our responsibility for alternative systems of
knowledge at points in time 'when human beings turn emancipatory
ideas, ideologies, and categories into new tools of violence and
oppression.'
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