Designing (post)colonial knowledge : imagining South Asia / edited by Priya Jha and Rajinder Dudrah.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jha, Priya, editor.

Dudrah, Rajinder Kumar, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Design--South Asia.

Design.

Postcolonialism--South Asia.

Postcolonialism.

Knowledge, Theory of--South Asia.

Knowledge, Theory of.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

viii, 150 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Memories of violence: Of emotional geographies and planning in post-Partition Delhi, 1948-62 / Aprajita Sarcar

2. Absence of the `un-exchangeable' monument: Cinematic design and national identity in a time of partition / Aditi Chandra

3. `Architectures of happiness': Designing the Malltiplex in India / Tupur Chatterjee

4. From deframing the oriental imagery to the making of the alternative other: Remapping the spaces of encounter / Dilpreet Bhullar

5. From craft to couture: Contemporary Indian fashion in historical perspective / Tara Mayer

6. Transnational homespun, citizen-art and Hindu-Muslim Gandhi ashrams: A working note on, against, and toward spirituality / Aaron Sinift

7. Evolving sense of visualizing the divine in popular Islam in Pakistan: An ethnographic case study / Ghulam Abbas

8. Counter-epistemologies of the global South: Indian floor drawings re-envisaged / Renate Dohmen

9. Printing princely modernity: Lithographic design in Muslim-ruled princely states / Amanda Lanzillo

10. Designing a visual palimpsest through film: A critical examination of Jodhaa Akbar and the nationalist narrative / Nirmala Menon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0367726114

9780367726119

OCLC:

1201656073

Publisher Number:

99989321356