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This innovative volume compels readers to re-think the notions of
performance, performing, and (non)performativity in the context of
the COVID-19 global pandemic. Given these multi-faceted ways of
thinking about “performance” and its complicated manifestations
throughout the pandemic, this volume is organised into umbrella
topics that focus on three of the most important aspects of
identity for cultural and intercultural studies in this historical
moment: language; race/gender/sexuality; and the digital world. In
critically re-thinking the meaning of “performance” in the era
of COVID-19, contributors first explore how language is differently
staged in the context of the global pandemic, compelling us to
normalise an entirely new verbal lexicon. Second, they survey the
pandemic’s disturbing impact on socio-political identities rooted
in race, class, gender, and sexuality. Third, contributors examine
how the digital milieu compels us to reorient the inside/outside
binary with respect to multilingual subjects, those living with
disability, those delivering staged performances, and even
corresponding audiences. Together, these diverse voices constitute
a powerful chorus that rigorously excavates the hidden impacts of
the global pandemic on how we have changed the ways in which we
perform identity throughout a viral crisis. This volume is thus a
timely asset for all readers interested in identity studies,
performance studies, digital and technology studies, language
studies, global studies, and COVID-19 studies. It was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Intercultural
Studies.
This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of
out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern
India. The first of its kind, this study unearths, through detailed
regional and demographical research, the ways in which economic and
migratory trends of male family members in rural India in general,
and hilly regions of Garhwal in particular, affect the wives,
children, extended families, and agricultural lands that they have
left behind. It offers vital research in how rural India's
socio-economic formations and topographic characteristics can today
more effectively contribute to the national and global economy with
respect to migratory trends, gender dynamics and home life.
Furthermore, it investigates the collapse of agricultural and many
other traditional economic activities without a corresponding
creation of fresh economic opportunities. This book moreover
elucidates how male out-migration from rural to urban centres has
greatly re-shaped kinship and economic structures at places of
origin and has consequently had a serious impact on the
socio-psychological well-being of family members. This book will be
of great value to scholars and researchers of development
economics, agricultural economics, environment studies, sociology,
social anthropology, population studies, gender and women's
studies, social psychology, migration and diaspora studies, South
Asian studies and behavioral studies.
The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new
and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital
milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new
digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows us to
create new archives of the past but also to remember and
commemorate the past differently. New maps transform how we
understand space and place. And new digital comfort zones
facilitate connections for those whose family and loved ones are
only accessible online. Such interventions are essential to the
recuperation of the integrity and soul of a people who have lived
through and continue to shoulder the fraught and painful legacies
of the British Empire and the communal bloodshed wrought by its
demise. Building on the important history of digital humanities
scholarship in South Asia and its diasporas that precedes this
work, this book contends that South Asian studies is further
positioned to offer a new genealogy of digital humanities,
demonstrated through this assemblage of essays that reveal how the
digital continues to shape notions of home, belonging, nation,
identity, memory, and diaspora through a variety of humanistic
methodologies and digital techniques. South Asian Digital
Humanities thus demonstrates that postcolonial digital humanities
has great possibility for creating some of the most important
social justice scholarship in South Asian studies of the past
century. It offers these essays as innovative interventions that
complicate the digital cultural record while lodging a
'homelanding' for South Asians within it, positioning digital
humanities as a method through which South Asian studies can
strategically participate in the ongoing struggle for
representation within digital knowledge production. This book was
originally published as a special issue of South Asian Review.
This book critically examines the socio-economic impacts of
out-migration on households and gender dynamics in rural northern
India. The first of its kind, this study unearths, through detailed
regional and demographical research, the ways in which economic and
migratory trends of male family members in rural India in general,
and hilly regions of Garhwal in particular, affect the wives,
children, extended families, and agricultural lands that they have
left behind. It offers vital research in how rural India's
socio-economic formations and topographic characteristics can today
more effectively contribute to the national and global economy with
respect to migratory trends, gender dynamics and home life.
Furthermore, it investigates the collapse of agricultural and many
other traditional economic activities without a corresponding
creation of fresh economic opportunities. This book moreover
elucidates how male out-migration from rural to urban centres has
greatly re-shaped kinship and economic structures at places of
origin and has consequently had a serious impact on the
socio-psychological well-being of family members. This book will be
of great value to scholars and researchers of development
economics, agricultural economics, environment studies, sociology,
social anthropology, population studies, gender and women's
studies, social psychology, migration and diaspora studies, South
Asian studies and behavioral studies.
The contributors to this volume re-think established insights of
memory and trauma theory and enrich those studies with diverse
Asian texts, critically analyzing literary and cultural
representations of Asia and its global diasporas. They broaden the
scope of memory and trauma studies by examining how the East/ West
binary delimits horizons of "trauma" by excluding Asian texts. Are
memory and trauma always reliable registers of the past that
translate across cultures and nations? Are supposedly pan-human
experiences of suffering disproportionately coloured by eurocentric
structures of region, reason, race, or religion? How are Asian
texts and cultural producers yet viewed through biased lenses? How
might recent approaches and perspectives generated by Asian
literary and cultural texts hold purchase in the 21st century?
Critically meditating on such questions, and whether existing
concepts of memory and trauma accurately address the histories,
present states, and futures of the non-Occidental world, this
volume unites perspectives on both dominant and marginalized sites
of the broader Asian continent. Contributors explore the complex
intersections of literature, history, ethics, affect, and social
justice across East, South, and Southeast Asia, and on Asian
diasporas in Australia and the USA. They draw on yet diverge from
"Orientalism" and "Area Studies" given today's need for nuanced
analytical methodologies in an era defined by the COVID-19 global
pandemic. This book will be of great interest to students and
scholars invested in memory and trauma studies, comparative Asian
studies, diaspora and postcolonial studies, global studies, and
social justice around contemporary identities and 20th and 21st
century Asia.
Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and
Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide
diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division
of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The
Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10
million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement
still haunts the survivors as well as their children and
grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event,
Revisiting India's Partition explores the impact of the "Long
Partition," a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore
the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian
nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar's notion
of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic,
and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on
communities throughout the South Asian diaspora. The nineteen
interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal,
multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation
to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have
received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their
individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia
in relation to several topics, including decolonization and
post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border
skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated
to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of
how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the
Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms
with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.
Crossing Borders is a gathering of twenty original,
interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African
American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian
studies. These essays by established and mid-career scholars from
around the globe employ a variety of approaches to the idea of
"border crossings" and represent important contributions to the
discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration,
exile, sub-nation, trans-nation, as well as the formation of
nationalities, communities, and identities. Borders, in these
contexts, signify social and national inequities and hierarchies
and also the ways to challenge and transgress entrenched barriers
sanctioned by habit, custom, and law. The volume also honors and
celebrates the life and work of Amritjit Singh as a teacher,
mentor, author, scholar, and editor over half a century.
Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that
postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home'
and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It
critically engages with Foucault's notions of "biopolitics" and
"governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the
era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from
the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in
the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive
home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it
exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class,
and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for
students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies,
Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity
studies, and Queer studies.
Homelandings is a critical exploration of the ways that
postcolonial diasporas challenge exclusive formulations of 'home'
and 'homeland' based on racist and heteronormative assumptions. It
critically engages with Foucault's notions of "biopolitics" and
"governmentality" as a conjoined technology of governance in the
era of neoliberal capitalism ushered into the global economy from
the late 1970s. Drawing on texts produced by diasporic people in
the UK and USA whose work resists and re-appropriates exclusive
home sites produced by trends of Anglo-American neoliberalism, it
exposes entrenched discourses of exclusion rooted in race, class,
and sexuality. In doing so, it offers an urgent intervention for
students and scholars of cultural studies, postcolonial studies,
Anglophone literature, comparative literature, Race and Ethnicity
studies, and Queer studies.
Revisiting India's Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and
Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide
diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division
of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The
Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10
million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement
still haunts the survivors as well as their children and
grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event,
Revisiting India's Partition explores the impact of the "Long
Partition," a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore
the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian
nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar's notion
of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic,
and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on
communities throughout the South Asian diaspora. The nineteen
interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal,
multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation
to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have
received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their
individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia
in relation to several topics, including decolonization and
post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border
skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated
to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of
how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the
Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms
with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.
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