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Book SynopsisThis is an investigation of arts and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, presenting a variety of perspectives which range from the metaphysical to the political. Moving beyond art as an expression of the inner mind and invention of the individual self, the volume bridges the gap between changing perceptions of contemporary art and aesthetics, and maps globalizing currents in a number of contexts and regions.The volume includes an impressive variety of case studies offered by established leaders in the field and original and emerging scholarly talent covering areas in India, Nepal, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Rwanda, and Germany, as well as providing transnational or diasporic perspectives. From the contradictory demands made on successful artists from the south in the global art world such as Anish Kapoor, to images of war and puppetry created by female political prisoners, the volume compels creative and political interpretations of the ever-changing and globalizing terraiTrade Review[The book] undertakes an important and timely project ... [it] excels via its heterogeneous glimpses and its curated range of worldmaking activities: digital media, pirated media, the activation of smell within museum exhibits, the soundscapes of weddings, mimesis within political practices, performative practices of diasporic cultures, and alternative art spaces in Tehran. The diversity of its examples offers insight into the sensorial as a realm between individual and group identities. - AnthroposTable of ContentsIntroductionRaminder Kaur, University of Sussex, UK and Parul Dave-Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaOf Mockery and Mimicking: Gaganendranath Tagore’s Critique of Henri Bergson’s Laughter (1911)Emilia Terracciano, Courtaud Institute of Art and University College London, UKThe Return of the Aura: Anish Kapoor, the Studio and the World Denis Vidal, IRD/Paris Diderot/EHESS, FranceThe Practice of Art: An Alternative View of Contemporary Art-making in TehranLeili Sreberny-Mohammadi, New York University, USAArt Under Siege: Perils and Possibilities of Aesthetic Forms in a Globalising World Patricia Spyer, Leiden University, The NetherlandsHot Bricolage: Magical Mimesis in Modern IndiaChristopher Pinney, UCL, UKWaste and the Aesthetics of Justice Shiv Visvanatham, O.P. Jindal Global University, India Slaps, Beatings, Laughter, Adda, Puppet Shows: Naxal Women Prisoners in Calcutta and the Art of Happiness in Captivity Atreyee Sen, University of Manchester, UKRwanda: Healing and the Aesthetics of Poetry Andrea Grieder, University of Zurich, Switzerland, and EHESS Paris, France The Aesthetics of Diaspora: Sensual Milieus and Literary Worlds Pnina Werbner, Keele University, UK and Mattia Fumanti, University of St. Andrews, UKFor Love's Sake? Changing landscapes of sonic and visual aesthetics of weddings in the Kathmandu Valley (Nepal)Christiane Brosius, University of Heidelberg, GermanyThe Aesthetics of Pirate Modernities: Bhojpuri Cinema and the UnderclassesAkshaya Kumar, University of Glasgow, UKIntimacy Out of Place: On the Workings of Smell in an Exhibition on Human SexualitySusanne Schmitt, University of Munich, GermanyConsuming Culture: The Refiguration of Aesthetics in Nagaland Cultural Tourism in India’s North EastSoumendra Patnaik, University of Delhi, IndiaReflections upon the Meaning of Contemporary Digital Image-Making Practices in IndiaPaolo Favero, University of Antwerp, Belgium and Giulia Battaglia, Musée du Quai Branly, ParisReflectionsMarilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge, UKIndex

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Book SynopsisThe cultural politics of censorship, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secretsTrade Review"[T]his insightful volume on a neglected topic shows that means and modes of censorship have kept pace with the mediums of communication, on grounds not dissimilar to the justification offered during the Raj." —Contemporary South Asia"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond." —Maria Khan, Feminist Review"This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come." —Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India"The contributors to this volume investigate a wide range of cultural regulation, from cinema to painting, blasphemy to official secrecy and even advertising to nuclear culture. The essays enlighten readers and provide better understanding of the concept of censorship." —South Asia Research"[The] compelling volume Censorship in South Asia steps away from the media spectacle and, with great insight and precision, places such contemporary cases of public agitation and regulation in their regional and historical context. To do so, the editors... expand the idea of censorship beyond juridical repression exercised in the quiet of the state's backrooms and instead place it within a larger domain of ‘cultural regulation’." —South AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Between Sedition and Seduction: Thinking Censorship in South AsiaWilliam Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur2. Iatrogenic Religion and PoliticsChristopher Pinney3. Making Sense of the Cinema in Late Colonial IndiaWilliam Mazzarella4. The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits: Censorship and the Bombay Film IndustryTejaswini Ganti5. Anxiety, Failure, and Censorship in Indian AdvertisingAngad Chowdhry6. Nuclear RevelationsRaminder Kaur7. Specters of Macaulay: Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial PredicamentAsad Ali Ahmed8. After the Massacre: Secrecy, Disbelief, and the Public Sphere in NepalGenevieve LakierList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIssues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21st century. Changes in the speed, scale, scope and form of international and internal migration, new and resurgent religious and ethnic solidarities, the emergence of ânewâ multicultural societies, and the fusions and fissures of âoldâ multicultural societies, have challenged and redrawn our understandings of nation and community, citizenship and belonging, exclusion and equality. This landmark collection, which marks the relaunch of the ground-breaking journal Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, brings together some of the leading international scholars in the field of race, ethnicity, migration and transnationalism to reflect on the changing landscape of research, theorisation and politics in this challenging contemporary context. The collection includes a powerful and typically provocative article by renowned race scholar Paul Table of ContentsIntroduction Claire Alexander, Raminder Kaur and Brett St Louis 1. ‘My Britain is fuck all’ zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship Paul Gilroy 2. Seeing through multicultural perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis 3. To stop tip-toeing around race: what Arizona’s battle against ethnic studies can teach academics Arlene Davila 4. The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011 Mette Andersson 5. From structured invisibility to visibility: is Japan really going to accept multiethnic, multicultural identities? Beverley Anne Yamamoto 6. Occupier/occupied Kamala Visweswaran 7. The transnational potentiality of transverse politics Raminder Kaur 8. Intersecting identities and global climate change Joane Nagel 9. Elite identities Shamus Rahman Khan 10. The ‘trouble’ with the ‘white working class’: whiteness, class and ‘groupism’ James Rhodes 11. What’s wrong with migration scholarship? A critique and a way forward Peggy Levitt 12. The ruptures and raptures of mobility Vered Amit 13. Nigerian London and British Hong Kong: rethinking migration, ethnicity and urban space through journeys Caroline Knowles 14. Situating Identities: towards an identities studies without binaries of difference Nina Glick Schiller 15. For Aïsha: on identity as potentiality Mats Trondman, Rehan Taha and Anna Lund 16. The structure of afterthought John Lie

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