Special Feature
Terrorism, Baudrillard, and a Death in Northeast India
For the people of Northeast India, there is little relief from from their chaotic transpolitical circumstance. A Baudrillard-inspired analysis of the region offers us a radical way to view a radical circumstance that cannot be understood by reference to traditional approaches. Alongside of Baudrillard, thinkers such as Agamben and Zizek also provide important theoretical tools for evaluating the current situation.
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Two things have died in the media. Outrage and compassionP. Sainath argues that the the moral universe of the media has shifted. You have a lot of drawing-room outrage, but not over issues that moved earlier generations of journalists. The structural shutout of the poor is evident in the way beats are organised in newspapers. You have fashion, design and glamour correspondents. In a country with the largest number of rural poor, you do not have one full-time correspondent on the beat of rural or urban poverty.
Stuffed and starvedRaj Patel says a small group of corporations control 40 per cent of the world food trade. Obviously, those corporations want to make money. So, they exploit poor farmers around the world.
Making maids sexy and desirable?A month back a friend drew my attention to a music video by Canadian (of Indian origin) hip-hop artist Ishq Bector (his website here). Titled “Aye Hip Hopper”, the music video tells the tale of an Indian bai (housemaid) in love with this hip-hop artist. This demure bai — dressed in a western maid’s outfit [...]
Announcements »
Launch of Open Humanities PressOpen Access expands to humanities disciplines with a bold new publishing initiative in critical and cultural theory
CFP: Special South Asia issue of International Journal of Žižek Studies
Subaltern Studies Media and Communications Collective is proud to collaborate with the International Journal of Žižek Studies in bringing out a special issue of the journal for writings on South Asia, either to elaborate on or critique the ideas of Slavoj Žižek.
(CFP) After Empire? Rethinking the post in the postcolonial
The takes as its subject the concept of an end to empire and aims to bring together students and staff from the University of Leeds and beyond.
News »
Dalit chronicles (May 07, 2008)Summary: RJD threaten to withdraw support to Congress if its demand for quotas for Dalits is not conceded; Mayawati claims BSP will play kingmaker in Karnataka polls; caste wall is demolished in Tamil Nadu
Dalit chronicles (May 06, 2008)
Summary: Mob protests desecration of backward class leader’s portrait; National Commission for Minorities favours Scheduled Caste status to dalits among Muslims and Christians; two held for rape of Dalit woman in UP; MP ranks second in atrocities on Dalits, says Meira Kumar; Dalit set afire in UP; a feature article on the paintings of Savi Savarkar, which reflect the anti women and anti dalit strain of Indian society; a report on the UK-funded PACS program in Bihar for Dalits; a feature on the trauma faced by Dalits in obtaining properties on let
Dalit chronicles (May 05, 2008)
Summary: Congress in a bind over Dalit sub-categorisation; Dalit siblings assaulted on by landlords in Delhi; Telegraph on the phenomenon of politicians “visiting” Dalit homes; Jug Suraiya of ToI suggests tongue-in-cheek that Rahul should marry a Dalit to win over UP; RSS’ mouthpiece Organiser on the importance of Ambedkar; upper-caste Jats open fire on Dalits in UP over refusal to work in their fields
