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Even though films in India occupy a special place evoking scholarly attention, their place in Tamil society is unique and has been fairly documented. The main purpose of this book is to analyse and understand the shift that is perceptible in the way personhood in Tamil films has been conceptualised. This book thus tries to account for the dramatic movement away from the way the concept of person was shown in Tamil films till recently to a surprisingly new way of
Even though films in India occupy a special place evoking scholarly attention, their place in Tamil society is unique and has been fairly documented. The main purpose of this book is to analyse and understand the shift that is perceptible in the way personhood in Tamil films has been conceptualised. This book thus tries to account for the dramatic movement away from the way the concept of person was shown in Tamil films till recently to a surprisingly new way of deploying the concept of person as observable in the new spate of Tamil movies that have come out during the last decade of the 20th Century. While the old concept of person as seen through Tamil films, strictly adhered to the idioms and codes generated by Dravidian movement, the post 1990s Tamil Film heroes, break and violates these idioms and codes, and unveil a completely new person, whose significance, especially in the context of socio-economic-political changes of the globalisation phase, is the focus of this book.
This book contains a collection of essays written by the author, drawing upon his experience as a Development sector researcher. These articles centre around development issues such as social research, poverty, disability, community care, and development, even while proposing a critical and qualitative understanding of these issues. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this book aspires to offer fresh perspectives to the issues concerning
This book contains a collection of essays written by the author, drawing upon his experience as a Development sector researcher. These articles centre around development issues such as social research, poverty, disability, community care, and development, even while proposing a critical and qualitative understanding of these issues. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this book aspires to offer fresh perspectives to the issues concerning social and development research/er.
Development remains a contested concept, as ever. While many argue that the solution for ‘less development’ is ‘more development’, there are others who stoutly defend the thesis that the real solution is ‘no development’. The latter claim that if we substitute the word ‘poverty’ with the word ‘destitution’, then it becomes evident that almost all forms and manifestations of destitution, are arguably development-induced. Although poverty as ‘
Development remains a contested concept, as ever. While many argue that the solution for ‘less development’ is ‘more development’, there are others who stoutly defend the thesis that the real solution is ‘no development’. The latter claim that if we substitute the word ‘poverty’ with the word ‘destitution’, then it becomes evident that almost all forms and manifestations of destitution, are arguably development-induced. Although poverty as ‘material resourcelessness’ always existed, destitution was unknown to societies of pre-development era. Destitution is the cruelest condition of absolute social, moral and collective resourcelessness, that pushes people to starvation, homelessness and aloneness. While macrolevel studies, instead of proving underdevelopment as the outcome of poverty, need to reverse the cliched casual-chain and study as to how development induces destitution, microlevel studies need to study specific forms of destitution, and as to how they directly co-relatable to the ever expanding landscape of development – both as practice and attitude of mind. This book aspires to do the latter, in small measure.
Even though films in India occupy a special place evoking scholarly attention, their place in Tamil society is unique and has been fairly documented. The main purpose of this book is to analyse and understand the shift that is perceptible in the way personhood in Tamil films has been conceptualised. This book thus tries to account for the dramatic movement away from the way the concept of person was shown in Tamil films till recently to a surprisingly new way of
Even though films in India occupy a special place evoking scholarly attention, their place in Tamil society is unique and has been fairly documented. The main purpose of this book is to analyse and understand the shift that is perceptible in the way personhood in Tamil films has been conceptualised. This book thus tries to account for the dramatic movement away from the way the concept of person was shown in Tamil films till recently to a surprisingly new way of deploying the concept of person as observable in the new spate of Tamil movies that have come out during the last decade of the 20th Century. While the old concept of person as seen through Tamil films, strictly adhered to the idioms and codes generated by Dravidian movement, the post 1990s Tamil Film heroes, break and violates these idioms and codes, and unveil a completely new person, whose significance, especially in the context of socio-economic-political changes of the globalisation phase, is the focus of this book.
This book contains a collection of essays written by the author, drawing upon his experience as a Development sector researcher. These articles centre around development issues such as social research, poverty, disability, community care, and development, even while proposing a critical and qualitative understanding of these issues. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this book aspires to offer fresh perspectives to the issues concerning
This book contains a collection of essays written by the author, drawing upon his experience as a Development sector researcher. These articles centre around development issues such as social research, poverty, disability, community care, and development, even while proposing a critical and qualitative understanding of these issues. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this book aspires to offer fresh perspectives to the issues concerning social and development research/er.
This books contains stories of marginalisation and poverty, retold by the author (who claims no authorship our these stories, so why the word 'retold'), over a period of 17 years. Drawing upon his experience, as a development sector researcher, these stories centre around development issues such as poverty, disability, community care, and caste-based discrimination. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this books aspires to offer humane p
This books contains stories of marginalisation and poverty, retold by the author (who claims no authorship our these stories, so why the word 'retold'), over a period of 17 years. Drawing upon his experience, as a development sector researcher, these stories centre around development issues such as poverty, disability, community care, and caste-based discrimination. Aimed at both the development professionals and academics, this books aspires to offer humane perspectives to the issues as it is experienced, lived and felt by the very people who have chosen to share their stories in good faith to the narrator.
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