{"title":"Participatory Advocacy Journalism in Central India: ‘Every Reader is a Reporter’","authors":"Annapurna Sinha","doi":"10.1177/02627280231163074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231163074","url":null,"abstract":"This case study of a community newspaper, Namaskar, and its impact in ‘underdeveloped’ areas of coastal Odisha in India, discusses the potential of alternative media for social change. It scrutinises and analyses the participatory advocacy activities of Namaskar. Studying participatory journalism favours a more dialogical and reflexive approach, which also draws on ideas of ‘critical’ and ‘radical’ media, while also calling attention to the significance of content in bringing about social change. Building on observations and testimonies from the field, collected through multiple qualitative methods for data collection, the study infers that Namaskar ensures significant participation in its advocacy practices, leading to observable changes in and around its catchment area. However, basic gatekeeping and editing work to make news copy print-ready also restrain the extent of ‘absolute participation’.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"245 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49125239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Fakrul Alam, Reading Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives","authors":"M. Quayum","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141444","url":null,"abstract":"Fakrul Alam, Reading Literature in English and English Studies in Bangladesh: Postcolonial Perspectives (Dhaka: writers.ink, 2021), xvii + 518 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"132 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45840675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Mashal Saif, The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic","authors":"Muneeb Yousuf","doi":"10.1177/02627280221143524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221143524","url":null,"abstract":"Mashal Saif, The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xii +320 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"143 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46614705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Paula Banerjee & Ranabir Samaddar (Eds), India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic","authors":"S. Narayana, Nia Susan Chaly","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141718","url":null,"abstract":"Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Paula Banerjee & Ranabir Samaddar (Eds), India’s Migrant Workers and the Pandemic (New York: Routledge, 2022), viii + 285 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"146 - 148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47333931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender Bargaining Within Matriliny in Kerala","authors":"Lekha N.B.","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141046","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents ethnographic evidence to illustrate how Nayar women in Kerala from three different generations encounter the interplay of changed gender and property relations and seek to balance their relationships, expectations and entitlements within their natal and affinal families. Directly experiencing the dynamic intersection of property, gender and culture as well as legal and socio-cultural change, these women are seen to bargain, often quite consciously, over power and resources, including property, within patterns of matriliny that exist in a wider society influenced by dominant patriarchal norms. The article suggests that this is not as unique to Kerala as is often claimed. It makes a case, therefore, for further research on how South Asian women in the twenty-first century remain torn between matriliny and patriliny, the natal family and the husband’s family, and have to engage in multiple balancing acts to secure their rights.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"97 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45667761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother Cow and Maternal Behaviour in Colonial North India","authors":"Lloyd Price","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141050","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a historical analysis of the interdisciplinary question to what extent animal behaviour influences domestication, by exploring how socio-cultural representations of cows as mothers were shaped by perceptions of their maternal behaviours. It does so by providing an analysis of the evolution of dairying practices in both the colonial and vernacular sciences of modern India. Mother cow (gau måtå) was imbibed with spiritual and material significance in the discourses of public health, food security and gastro-politics from the late nineteenth century. But to what extent were cultural representations influenced by the maternal behaviours of the cow? Analysing animal husbandry practices, it is shown here that in contrast to the Western tradition of segregating the mother from her calf, the maternal behaviours and emotions of Bos indicus zebu cows were perceived by many dairy farmers to be an evolved characteristic that needed to be nurtured.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"18 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45614338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima (Eds), Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production","authors":"R. Sahu","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141714","url":null,"abstract":"Koichi Fujita and Tsukasa Mizushima (Eds), Sustainable Development in India: Groundwater Irrigation, Energy Use, and Food Production (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020), xvii + 248 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"148 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45425089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora (Eds), Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalisation, Liberation, and Contested Bodies","authors":"P. Sinha","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141451","url":null,"abstract":"Megha Anwer and Anupama Arora (Eds), Bollywood’s New Woman: Liberalisation, Liberation, and Contested Bodies (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Rutgers University Press, 2021), vi + 213 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"134 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42737455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Riho Isaka, Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c. 1850-1960","authors":"Amrita Shodhan","doi":"10.1177/02627280221141443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221141443","url":null,"abstract":"Riho Isaka, Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c. 1850-1960 (London and New York: Routledge, 2022), xii + 193 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":"43 1","pages":"129 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48653418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}