ASA12: Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6th April 2012
Panels
Modernity, Fashion and Style as Cultural Constructs in India "Haute Couture:" the making of an aesthetic category through Indian fashion Textile Crafts and their contribution in Indian Fashion Crafting textile and cultural narratives: The Sari as a garment and a fashion construct Doing 'Something Indian' : Designer strategies betwixt and between India in the World Fashion Fair From social status to ethnic identity: The ethnic fashion scene in Nagaland Effect of Fashion and Media on Beauty Notions in Society Embroidered Seduction, Embroidered Modesty: On Luxury Garments and Femininity in Contemporary India Dressing up for consumption: or how sex workers project themselves for the public gaze Haida goes pop! Transpacific graphics and indigenous narratives This is not a portrait: the problem of representation and a global history of art 'Flights like poetry': Exploring aesthetic experiences in the practice of hunting with birds of prey. The river echoes with laughter: exploring Matses children's aesthetic experiences in Peruvian Amazonia A Retro Affair: silver emulsion in the age of digital Narrating Familiarity: Frederick Growse and the Architectural Experience of Colonial Bulandshahr: 1878-1886. Home and University: The Aesthetics of Making Two Ends Meet Loudly sing, cuckoo! Bird song, resonance and an aesthetics of seasonality 'The Mother of all Strikes: Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011 Aesthetics of Revolt in Tahrir Square Reclaiming the Political from Aesthetics: Exploring the Arab Spring and Aftermath Subversion through performance: Performative activism in London (2010-2011) Supercharging Satyagraha? Saintly politics and media in the struggle for a Jan Lokpal Bill The Changing Contours of the Politics in Kashmiri Movement:Ideas, Practices & Responses Building Protesting Publics: Local Trade in New 'world-class' Delhi Corrupt Movements, the Anti-Corruption Movement, and the Movement of Knowledge in Indian Political Practice Demonstrating Christian aesthetics in a South Indian leprosy community Aesthetics of Community: Ritual and identity in Brazilian Pentecostalism Designing a play for 'conversion': learning to perceive Krishna Different aesthethics for different religions: the case of the Afro-Brazilian religions in Portugal Motifs and aesthetics of Christian conversion among the Naga of northeast India Warli Paintings: Tradition and Change The aesthetics of conversion to school education in rural Chhattisgarh Aberration as the Norm: Conversion and issues of Representation in Nineteenth Century Bengal The aesthetics of superiority : Conversion narratives as performative acts in a climate of religious competition Documenting Rural Arts and Crafts Through Photography 'Ginger is a Gamble': On the moral economy of agrarian crisis and the neoliberalisation of agriculture in Wayanad (Kerala) Valentine's Day and Floriculture in Bengaluru The moral/aesthetic economy/ecology of agriculture in Bali Domestic reflections of sustenance strategies in northern Nepal. Globalisation and Corporitisation of Indian Agriculture: A Review of Food Insecurity in India The Mujra Dance Video Cds: Its Production, Content and Masculine Desire in Present Day Pakistani Popular Culture love, films and chewing-tobacco - an exploration of the "cultural margin" of a VideoCD circulation by an ethnography of a village video night in India Otherness of Cinema: Video Technologies, Marginal Cultures, Economy of New Industries Making Aesthetics: the hand-made perspective Anthropology and aesthetics in production of Phulkari The aesthetics of (the) hand-i(n)-crafts Where Craft and Aesthetics have no distinction: Discussing some Japanese contributions to the Global Arena Tisien eni atan: writing in the ground The Politics of Handloom as a Craft: Exploring the Dynamics of Cloth, Society and Social Change in Manipur Anthropological specificities in the study of the aesthetics of an artistic object: the problem of movement Gods for tourists: stone carving and tourist arts in Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu On dialectics between art and craft: the case of taxidermy Jadupatias in the aesthetics of craft of jewellery making Writing of Home: the retrospective gaze of Attia Hosain and Imtiaz Dharker "O brother, Jugni speaks": Listening the text and context of Jugni Babel: Violence and Humanism Ritual, tourism and sensorial dimension among the Catholic Gaudde in Goa, India The role of improvisation in the success of a textile based public engagement project Consuming 'Nature': Cultural Tourism in the Mountains of Central Spain. The Symbolic Appropriation of Privately owned Nature Landscapes Culture as Tourism Product : State Policy and Identity Politics in Nagaland of North East India A Sensual Delight in Eating: Exploring the Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics of Culinary Tourism in Assam Rural Artists' Encounter with Anthropologists and Corporate Professionals The Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Tourism in Iran This Curio called Indian Miniature circa 2000 Contesting Anglo-American Anthropological Hegemony in Publication New Hegemonic Strategies in Publication: Research Quality Evaluation and Corporate Journals Combating "hegemony" or leveling "hierarchy" in the production of anthropological journals worldwide Solving the Anthropological Double-standard: The Role of Technology in Overcoming the Euro-American Hegemony over Knowledge Linkage between polyglot anthropology and publishing in India: step towards a solution Farmer suicides: state narratives and representation in popular culture Administrating Death: Changing meaning(s) of suicide at the intersection of Law, Medicine and Development discourse in India Passing the buck: Suicide, Shame and the shifting of status in southern Sri Lanka Colonial encounters with the 'suicidal other': the British in Ceylon Folk Performances and Forms of Public Memory Weaving the threat of memory: war rugs and the memorialisation of war in Afghanistan Remembering the Unseen: Images of Heaven and Earth in the Bosnian Mosque Telling Lives: the framing and reception of narratives in Yugoslav refugee families Mapping Berlin: Memories in the Present Moment cartographical spaces of memory - between arts and lived experience Production of social memories in the making of present and interpreting the past: Narratives of an 'abolished' labour institution in a highland region of Kerala, India Hierarchy, History andPerformance: Critical Comments on a Non-Brahminical Ritual Fiber-mnemonics In and out of time: Skilled memory, narratives performances and the construction of value among artisans in Old Delhi Watching Bhojpuri Cinema with the 'Indecent Crowds' in Decrepit Single-Screen Theatres: Ethics of Space, Image and Spectatorship versus Aesthetics of Homosocial Masculinity at a tent theatre near you: exploring shared ritualistic viewing practices during the annual visits of traveling cinemas in Maharashtra Automobility: Architecture and Cosmopolitanism in Chanakya What might we learn from a historical phenomenology of film going in colonial south India? Film as infrastructure: information, circulation and exhibition practices in colonial and independent India: 1920s-1950s Robert Gardner's "Forrest of bliss". Potentials of ethnographic film beyond objectivism and deconstruction Reflecting on poetics of ethnography in literature Understanding Multinational Corporate Culture in India through Fiction: An Anthropological Study The Construction of Disability in Popular Hindi Cinema:An Exploration of Select Films Archiving a cultural idiom: film, fiction, biography, art and document Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Mapping the rise of subversive slave consciousnesses in his film The last Supper (1976) The fiction of anthropology: content without audience Fiction: a cultural mirror The Changing World of Satyajit Ray: Anthropological Reflections on Authorship and History Colonial India: why does it matter to contemporary aesthetics of (documentary) film practice in India? Frenzy of Bandwidths: Documenting Technology We found love in a hopeless place: aesthetics, technology, body in amateur production "Going Through the Mill"- Filming a Sensory Historiography of the Cotton Industry. Animated Ethnography Sensorial resonance as a key reading tool into migrants' experiences Jewellery and Techno Aesthetic Revolution The Jewellery trail: Interface between the old and the new tradition Gendered Prestations and Property: Gold, Aesthetics and Social Identity in India Framing the Colonial Encounter?: A discussion of Non-British pictorial sources of the Naga created during colonial times Visual Anthropology and the Knowledge of the 'Other': Representing Colonial Subjects through Photography in Naga Hills The Search for 'Idyllic Places' and 'Wild People': Visualizing Nagas Through the Prism of Colonial Photography Folk-Knowledge, Sacred Landscape and Visual anthropology Capturing the 'savage' and the 'civilized': Seeing through the lens of the American Baptist Mission Framing indigeneity and environmentalism among the Lepchas of Sikkim, India Displayed Carcasses: A Visual Impact of Shillong's Butchery Stalls Representations of biodiversity in North East India Imagining the nation in Assamese cinema (1930s-1970s) Ephemeral but eternal traces of Asia in the artworld Crossing the borders: Issues and input of a sociology of art perspective for a better understanding of artworks' transcultural circulation Modes of Marketing and Commercialisation in Contemporary Tibetan Art Articulating contemporary art in Iran: A view from two places Trouble in Shangri-La: Tibetan Artists' Travels in the Global Contemporary Artworld Anish Kapoor and his interpreters India's contemporary art on global highways Translocal art worlds in times of medialisation: India's contemporary art world in transition. Art's Global Stage: Critical Paradigms Art Festivals as Laboratories of the Postcolonial Predicament in Africa Reflecting upon the predicament of digital image-making in South Asia Interruptions in Culture and History: Media Based Art of(f) India Regeneration and Multiplicity Querying the popular: digital photographic practices and trick photography of seventies Theory w/Out Words 101 circles and 2 straight lines Seeing Double: Is Old Delhi Modern? Weaving Films, Shooting Cotton:The Cinema Making Fabric of Malegaon Citizen Video Producers Changing Indian Media The fluid identity of the Other: Italian documentaries on India M-commerce and the (re)making of the music industry in Kenya Mobile Media and Piracy in India The 'Pirate' DJ Pirate State: Music circulation in late socialist Cuba What is music? Ontological politics of experimental digital music in the UK Folk Music in the Digital Realm: Shared Commons or Cultural Property Music in protest, music as property The cosmopolitan and the regional: understanding Bengali cuisine Remember the old masters: the musical and social practices of memory in Hindustani music milieu Translating substances: brokering sensory agreement across boundaries. Taking art back: select artistic offensives, tactics and strategies Exhibiting India: The Opportunity Cost of a 'Global art history' Bordering on blank: the calligraphic modernism of Nasreen Mohamedi (1937-1990) Being Glocal? Art In The Age Of The Survey. All that Is Solid Melts into Air: Indian Contemporary Art in Global Times The Red and the Grey: On Ai Weiwei's Social (Media) Sculptures 'Aimer et mourir/ Au pays qui te ressemble': Representations of Love and Death in Poetry and Myth Deconstructing the Rama Consciousness: Appropriation of the Ramayana and its variations across India Accommodation of the primordial in Ra.One Creating a new 'real-topia' from the teachings of the ancient Maya: Mayanism and the reappropriation of myth Tibetan ritual dance as public performance and state ceremony: the evolution of the Tshe bcu in Bhutan and the 2011 Dochu La festival Dance, ritual and thunder dragons: exploring cultural politics and national identities Benefits and Blessings: perceptions of Tibetan ritual dances ('cham) in modern Bhutan On sacred ground: Constructing an ancient tradition for 'Tibetan' Buddhism in Spiti The state of theatre in Bhutan and the role of Happy Valley Theatre as an Advocate of Change Transformation of the cult of St Anthony of Padua in a popular centre of Pilgrimage in rural Bangladesh Attukal Pongala: conflation of sacred and secular in popular imagination and public culture Cultures and Communities: The Distinct life-worlds of Peasants and Forest-dwellers in Andhra Pradesh Of Guns, Fences, and Wire: Experiencing forest governance in Wayanad, Kerala, South India Politics of Ecology with relation to Caste and Community in the Kumaon hills of Uttarakhand Political ecology of transhumance and change among the Bhotias of Kumaon, Uttarakhand. Culture and Ecology in the Hills of North East India Jhumming as defining feature of Kuki Identity in Northeast India Techno-materiality in Cinema: The Skin of the Televisual Screen Substances: The Mediatized Object of the Korean Wave The new Marathi film The Materiality of Memory: Digital dispersion and the Bombay film remake Digital Days: The Unstable Archive of Cinema Re-thinking Film Curatorial Practice in India: A Few Examples Commemorating the Bhadralok: A Study of Culture as Governance in the Context of West Bengal Picturing the Environment: Mapping Technologies in the Coastal Regulatory Zone in India Curatorial Governmentality: Discourses on Air-Conditioning in Contemporary India Designing (counter) culture: Politics, CARIFESTA, and self-making in the Caribbean Aesthetics of space: Delhi and the sufi view "Mary at the Ethnic Frontier": Marianism Among Vietnamese in Vietnam, the U.S., and Cambodia "Empty Your Cup: Anti-Colonial Humor in Khyentse Norbu's The Cup" Under the Light of the Imperial Parasol. Politics and Religion in Mughal Imperial Portraits "Representation to 'Re-Presentation' : A Sociological Analysis of the Santhal Scroll Paintings and Performance, and their Relation to the World of Magic and Religion" Religious devotion and the political: the honour dispute revisited Reading and writing in absence : The donors' plaques Chants of re-enchantment: Chamorro spiritual resistance to colonial domination Visible Disappearances: Aesthetics of Anatomical Erasure and Biogenetic Representation Making Claims to Tradition: Poetics and Politics in the Works of Young Maithil Painters Slaps, beatings, laughter, adda, puppet shows: Naxal women prisoners in Calcutta and the art of happiness in captivity A postcolonial renaissance: 'Indianness', contemporary art, and the market in the age of neoliberal capital Adda at Davos: aesthetics and art of exchange in a global market place Waiting for the Womb: Representing Reproduction in the Infertility Clinic Waiting Room Art of creating designer babies through ART Of Medical Specialities and Spaces: The Therapeutic Aesthetics of Renal Transplantation The sybaritic as therapeutic: The therapeutic pleasures of art and architecture in German rehabilitative medicine Exploring self-healing process through expressive art work in children with brain tumor: An ethnography method Using the Therapeutic Arts in Research Therapeutic iconography: Visual imagery in a marginal medical tradition Shrubs, Seeds and Foxskulls: The art of Narikuravar folk healing Indian Migrants in Australia: Beyond the Middle Class Framing Understanding constructions of 'otherness' in migration: the case of northern Italy Framing cultures: the multicultural and ethnographic hijacking of the voice of the (1950s Italian women) migrants (to Australia) Finding space for the migrant voice: A Ladakhi migrant's short story and its awkward reception Life Historical Narrations and the Framing of the Subjectivity and Identity of the Rural Immigrants in East Guizhou (1930-2010) Narratives of Migrant Women Agricultural Labourers in Rural Punjab: Mapping the experiences of female migrants' work, well-being and changes in migrant-native relationship Improvisation in anthropology and art - habitus and movement Thinking freedom: the balance between autonomy and care Art Tactics and Indeterminacy Altering a fixed identity: Thinking through improvisation improvisation through collaboration - two photographic projects: Pictures of Linda and Country Girls Where you end and I begin: cognition and culture in experimental improvised music and dance Certainty, Contingency and Improvisation Creating Freedom : The Story of Healing Through Dance in Kolkata Panel discussion for all presenters "Improvisation as art: (re)creating the unexpected situation" "A Country of Hearsay and Rumor": The Aesthetic Politics of Rumor Publics in Urban Nepal The Ayodhya Dispute: Demolition, Damage and the Emergency Imaginary Memorizing Home: Art as Place Making Intense Proximity: The Spatial Grammar of Social Conflict Embodied Aesthetics: Sung Protest in Post-Apartheid South Africa 'Event, Image, Memory: Speculations on Politics and Visuality in India Mobilising Images, Muktir Gaan and migrants of the Bangladesh war of 1971 Violence, Memory & the Politics of Reconciliation in Sri Lanka Building 'Monuments' in a World Class City: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Delhi Building Distributions of the Sensible: Architecture, Modernism and the Politics of Sri Lankan Nationhood De-colonial aesthetics: violence and political sensibilities in the late Portuguese Empire The Poltics of Esthetics and the Esthetics of Politics in Barcelona Imagining Bangladesh through the Aesthetics of Food Folk, food and folly: Bangladeshi 'folk' dance and the Bengal famine of 1943 Moner Manush: Travelling of Faqir Lalon Shah in the wrold of Hindu saints and the imagination of Bangali nation Art of Bangladesh: the changing role of tradition, search for identity and globalization. The Future that did not Happen: Recollections of the Project The aesthetic process of imagination of Bangladesh and the politics of Bengali and indigenous Identity Forensic fictions: first thoughts on media representations of forensic science The Fictions of Science and Cinema in India Chronicles of a disappearance: P K Rosy and contemporary Malayalam cinema The dialectics of tradition and modernity in Indian superhero comics Media of desire? Olfactory aesthetics and olfactory agency in an exhibit on human sexuality The cultivation of creativity and the management of chaos at an artists' village in Chennai Resisting being uber-cool: an artist's encounter with Bengaluru Populating architecture with community: the symbolic integration of stark concrete with everyday life in Chandigarh, India Atlantic movement in art of the Indo-Caribbean: casting shadows and throwing light in Surinam and the Netherlands Dalit performance art, cultural politics and the renegotiation of identity Everyday Aesthetics and Refashioning of Selves Dancing Across the Thresholds of Caste: Enacting Transcendence and 'Egalitarianism' in the Western Himalaya Pithora and the making of Tribal art. 'Feeling of loss': ethnicity, ethnographic imagination and identity work of Mandi youth in Dhaka Between the market and Comrade Mao: Newar cultural activism and ethnic/political movements Kamlari voices and movements: repositioning Tharu indigenous artistic knowledge into global activism Mahteen Mai Ka Mandir: Gender, Caste and Contested History in Rural Bihar The Widow of the Martyr Displacing Commemoration: memory work and spatial and performative politics among Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir Heroic Memories:the inscription of power and gender into social memory through virakals Composing the memory: N T Rama Rao and Performing Identity 'It's not my story to tell': violence, memory and story-telling in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique (Un)witnessing the Event: Testimony as Poesis Worldmaking in an ethnic corner: designing a distinctively Malay space "Tie and Dye" - Production, Consumption and Circulation of Sungudi Textiles Being Human in Howrah: Life of Voluntarism on the Peri-urban Bad Atmosphere? Negotiating politics, personhood and place in a low-income Delhi neighbourhood. The Ethics of Duty: Visions of Community and Political Action in Rajasthan The making of the 'self' in the conflicted border zones: a study of the enclave zones of Bengal Remnants of Revolution: Naxalbari Movement, Revolutionary Subjectivity and the Cultural Legacies of Middle-Classes in Bengal Negotiating the class subject: Marxist-Leninist politics and the iconization of the rural poor in Bihar Revolutions within revolutions: women in extreme left movements Beyond Subalternity: The Political Aesthetics and Ethics of Adivasi Resistance in Contemporary Jharkhand A hope for change: Ritual artefacts as agents of transgression Refraining and Longing: Ambiguous Relationships to Kolam in the Tamil Diaspora Aestheticisation and Improvisation: Encountering 'Absence' in Indian Diasporic Settings Threads of Diasporic Attachment and Ambivalence - Visibly Muslim dress in Britain Aestheticisation of artefacts in the lives of western lifestyle migrant children in Goa, India Flash mob dance: Embodied cosmopolitanism in the age of digital communication networking The popular meets the classical: New cosmopolitanism in Hip-hop's dialogue with Kathak Cosmopolitanism and hegemony: the forging of new tastes in India Mrinali Sarabhai, nationalism, and cosmopolitan aesthetic Wellbeing in India: Should Anthropologists Be Part of the Debate? Inventing boundary of wellbeing and development:a response to Integrating Action Plan for the Naxal affected tribal districts in India Belief systems: Forgotten Component in well being On the "logico-poetics" of Francis Zimmerman Wellbeing in polluted conditions: anthropology in an industrialised Chinese village The aesthetics of rural life or manifestations of wellbeing in Latvia's small-holder economies. 'Belonging to one's place' as condition of a good life: understandings of well-being in rural Latvia Aesthetics, Healing and Embodied Experience in Dehradun: a comparative approach to healing and aesthetics in a north Indian urban context. Understanding the notion of social body: A critical study of scientific medicine and religious healing in Mizoram "Seeing as surviving": the aesthetics of visibility in experiencing breast cancer in Mumbai, India. Scepticism as healing art The arts and aesthetics of popular healing among the Santals of rural West Bengal, India Rwanda: Healing and the aesthetic of poetry Who Were the 'People' in IPTA?: Revisiting the History of Marxist Cultural Movement in India Jana Natya Mandali's Gaddarian Approach to Theatre and Performance: The Development of a Revolutionary Aesthetic Invoking Caste and Occupation in a Political Movement: The Case of Separate Telangana State Movement Rethinking Satyagraha in the context of Environmental movement in India: a Study of Kashipur block of Orissa Political socialization through graffiti Drawing, painting and writing resistance: texts of Eduardo Galeano and graffiti in JNU Grassroot movements and mobilisation for protecting natural resources: some reflections from Rajasthan Between the couple and the videographer: Ritual, identity and aesthetics in marriage videos in North Kerala, India From Ballroom Dancing to the Ghoonghat: Indian Weddings and the Aesthetics of Negotiating Identities For Love's Sake? Sonic and visual aesthetics of weddings in contemporary Nepal Umabo in contemporary Kwazulu-Natal: art, grace and skill in performing a Zulu wedding Identity and Aesthetics of Food Culture: The Dogra Weddings of Jammu, J & K (India) Re-scripting Ahom identity: The politics and aesthetics of Chaklong marriage The Aesthetics of Weddings and the Consumerist 'craze' among the Sumi Tribe Aesthetics of devotion: Barelwi practice in the everyday Art, agency and performativity: the aesthetics of Ashura processions in Hyderabad Aesthetics and rhetoric in religious therapeutic agencying by a holy man in Bahia, Brazil Narratives of marginalization of dalit and tribal women in Bengal and Jharkhand: a study of the fictions of Anil Gharai Tribes after three displacements: a challenge to survival in Sonebhadra district Uttar Pradesh Governing the conflicted commons: Democracy in the Indian tribal belt Natural resources versus tribal lives: State policies and their impact Art therapy and autism Reading Poetry: Suzuki Method for Autistic Children Online Singing Training for Persons with Autism and their Caregivers One sense at a time workshops for children with Autism Drama for Autism Making 'un-reformed': family, gender and class in Islamic charity images in South India The Good Man of Shanxi : the post socialist aesthetics of Jia Zhangke The Socialist vision and the photographic eye in the 1940s Contesting Frames: Locational Ideologies and a National-Modern Aesthetic in India, 1940s-50s