Decolonial Keywords : South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes – Edited By Renny Thomas, Sasanka Perera (Hardcover)

Description

The volume presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of South Asia and its vast cultural landscape. It reiterates specific attitudes, ways of seeing and methods of doing, which are embedded in the historical and contemporary experiences in the region. The words, concepts, ideas and attitudes in this volume explore the contexts of their production and how their meanings might have changed at different historical moments. The volume also attempts to work out if these words and concepts can infuse a certain intellectual rigor to reinvent social sciences and humanities in the region and beyond. Individual essays, which are creative, imaginative, ethnographic, and historical, explore the possibility of South Asian intellectual worlds and words to create a broader crossregional and global social science and humanities. The volume argues that it is important to move away from the intellectual shackles inherited from colonial and neo-colonial experiences while also not succumbing to the traps of local reductionist nativisms and cultural nationalisms.

The volume has a foreword by Nivedita Menon and the contributors include A.P. Ashwin Kumar, Ambika Aiyadurai, Anushka Kahandagamage, Anasua Chatterjee, Anwesha Sengupta, Banu Subramaniam, Binit Gurung, H.M. Harisha, Harshana Rambukwella, Ihsan Ul-Ihthisam, Ishita Dey, Jagath Bandara Pathirage, K.V. Cybil, G. Kanato Chophy, Magna Mohapatra, Neha Mishra, Ophira Gamliel, Pankaj Sekhsaria, Pooja Kalita, Prashant Ingole, Prathama Banerjee, Ravi Kumar, Ravi Nandan Singh, Razzeko Delley, Renny Thomas, Roshan Praveen Xalxo, Sabin Ninglekhu, Sasanka Perera, Sayantan Datta, Sebanti Chatterjee, Sumbul Farah, Swargajyoti Gohain and V. Rajesh.