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Jugaad Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Jugaad Time

In India, the practice of jugaad—finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems—emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in management literature as a disruptive innovation. In Jugaad Time Amit S. Rai explores how jugaad operates within contemporary Indian digital media cultures through the use of the mobile phone. Rai shows that despite being co-opted by capitalism to extract free creative labor from the workforce, jugaad is simultaneously a practice of everyday resistance, as workers and communities employ hacks to oppose corporate, caste, and gender power. Locating the tensions surrounding jugaad—as both premodern and postdigital, innovative and oppressive—Rai maps how jugaad can be used to undermine neoliberal capitalist media ecologies and nationalist politics.

Rule of Sympathy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Rule of Sympathy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002-06-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without such differences, which were differences of power, sympathy itself would be impossible. This paradoxical mode of power transformed the ways in which people came to think of how best to manage, order, and govern individuals and populations in the late eighteenth century.

Untimely Bollywood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 303

Untimely Bollywood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-05-26
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book argues that the fast-paced, multivalent qualities of contemporary Bollywood cinema signify the changing conditions of media consumption in a globalizing India. It discusses how cinema and other popular media manage power and sensation and reinforce a liberalized postcolonial economy.

Dental Foundation Training
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 126

Dental Foundation Training

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-02-01
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

Foundation Training is mandatory for the majority of UK dental graduates who wish to practise NHS dentistry. Considered by many dentists as being a rite of passage, it underpins the development of a career in all branches of dentistry.

Benazir Bhutto - Bilawal Bhutto
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 54

Benazir Bhutto - Bilawal Bhutto

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

It's another ""SPOTLIGHT"" from the history... a spotlight on the secret sex kingdom of Benazir Bhutto. The first book on Benazir's sex life, "Indecent Correspondence: Secret Sex Life of Benazir Bhutto" was more like a document composed of written confessions by some close friends of Benazir who participated in sexual escapades along with her. This new book about Benazir & Bilawal Bhutto describes some of the wildest sexual acts Benazir was known for in her intimate circles. Based on the notes by a class-fellow of Bilawal Bhutto who was witness to everything in Dubai and London - this book unfolds explicit descriptions of Benazir-in-action, and how she tricked Bilawal's class-fellow into her games of incest - in which she would have sex even with her own son, Bilawal... Benazir was known to be enthralled by ancient erotic traditions. She was the modern-day example of Queen Agrippina (the mother of Nero) and Empress Theodora from the Roman Empire.

InterMedia in South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 129

InterMedia in South Asia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event, the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience. Contemporary media in and from South Asia have come to sense a new arrangement of value, sensation, and force - new forms of becoming that might be usefully termed as 'media ecologies'. This evolution from nation-based forms of communication (Doordarshan, All India Radio, the "national" feudal romance) to simultaneous global ones conform and mutate the structures of feeling of local, national, diasporic and transnational belonging. This collection of original essays is concerned with understanding how people are making meaning from the new media and how subaltern tinkering (pirating, peer to peer file sharing, hacking, noise jamming, indymedia, etc.) does things to and in the new media. This exciting works helps us to make sense of the creation of new publics, new affects and new experiences of pleasure and value in convergences of intermedia in a fast developing South Asia context. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.

Diginaka
  • Language: en

Diginaka

Differential and changing access to the Internet in Indiahas led to an explosion of user-created content across various platforms and media. This turn to the digital also has political and economic consequences, as seen in the imposition of AADHAAR and demonetisation. While the digital divide intensifies social hierarchies of caste, class and gender, it can also become part of post-capitalist ecologies, traversing the formal and informal sectors, even as the digital becomes central to social and political practices in different marginalised communities. Diginaka: Subaltern Politics and Digital Media in Post-Capitalist India explores this complex space of the digital from multiple perspective...

Shanzhai
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Shanzhai

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  • Published: 2017-10-06
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, shanzhai politicians, shanzhai stars. There is a shanzhai Harry Potter: Harry Potter and the Porcelain Doll, in which Harry takes on his nemesis Yandomort. In the West, this would be s...

Why Should I Love You ?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Why Should I Love You ?

About the Book Saloni, an ambitious and independent woman, moves away from the comforts of her hometown, Patiala, to New Delhi, a metro in an endless whirl. Saloni needs to champion the cause of gender equality and women empowerment, and set out on the quest for an ultimate soulmate, at the same time. Three men enter her life—Manish, whom she loves unreservedly, Piyush, who loves her unconditionally, and a mentor who could guide her to enlightenment. Will either be the soulmate Saloni hopes to find? Anjali Rai's debut novel, Why Should I Love You? is not an ordinary tale of love. Wrapped in a blanket of spiritualism, this riveting read is Saloni's journey of excitement, passion, pleasure and pain. About the Author Hailing from a family of freedom fighters, Anjali Rai began her career as a newscaster for Doordarshan. She later joined politics and served as a member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly for a decade. Her artistic inclination motivated her to record a music album with T-Series. She has acted in short films and directed various documentaries. Her debut novel, Why Should I Love You? is an extraordinary journey of a woman in search of eternal love.

The Monster Theory Reader
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 852

The Monster Theory Reader

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human imagination, giving shape to the fears and desires of their time. And as long as there have been monsters, there have been attempts to make sense of them, to explain where they come from and what they mean. This book collects the best of what contemporary scholars have to say on the subject, in the ...