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{"title":"Digitalization and Informality in media industries: beyond the platform-portal divide?","authors":"Smith Mehta, Stuart Cunningham","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2203899","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2203899","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the significant events that led to the emergence and growth of the online Indian audio-visual sector. The principal argument that drives this narrative is the co-evolution of Indian formal and informal media economies that led to the media industries’ digital transformation. Drawing on historical analysis of the Indian film and television industries, we argue that just as the informal means of finance, social relations, illegal cable and satellite distribution had a formative influence on how these industries formalized, the Indian online audio-visual sector is driven by distinctive formalization processes, led by creators who are engaging with both local and global UGC-led platforms as well as PGC-led portals. Using a critical media industries framework, with data gathered from semi-structured interviews with ‘above-the-line’ Indian online media practitioners together with trade press literature, we propose an analytical framework that incorporates both platforms and portals as industrial objects for mapping digital production cultures that originate as inherently informal.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"276 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44581622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Un/common schooling: educational experiments in twentieth-century India","authors":"S. Amrutha, Luke Gerard Christie","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2207907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2207907","url":null,"abstract":"changes associated with the Kali Yuga. It is not just limited to economic and environmental conditions, but the fear of contagion and other gendered stigmas profoundly affect their social standing, which is only worsened by notions of morality reinforced by public health camps. As opposed to the disclosure of diagnosis to patients, withholding the truth from them was considered an act of care by many patients. The loss of body parts such as breasts, uterus and hair as a result of radiation comes not just with immense physical and mental pain but also various exclusions (especially in the economic and sexual realm) with the stigma attached to it. Van Hollen’s ethnographic inquiry exposes the deeply intertwined nature of biomedical interventions and spiritual healing as several of these women simultaneously reached out to Samiyars – intermediaries between Gods and humankind – and the Pentecostal church in addition to the biomedical treatment they received. Emphasizing the structural violence faced by these women, Van Hollen concludes that healthcare initiatives do not account for their concerns for care and causality. Van Hollen’s work is extremely significant in the realm of medical anthropology as it vividly delineates the experience of these specific cancer patients whilst also offering a multidimensional understanding. It is empirically grounded and brings out the nuances of everyday lived experiences. While Van Hollen clearly deconstructs notions of morality embedded in public health campaigns, it would have been useful to dig deeper, in order to acknowledge the colonial residues inherent in the discourse, as evident in anti-abortion arguments and the emphasis on hygiene, sterilization and monogamous sex. In other words, it is crucial to observe the historical continuities through which Victorian morality is still reflected in our healthcare attitudes and conceptions, especially in stateled healthcare. In addition, although Van Hollen captures an extensive field view of cancer and suffering, her subaltern critique does not rise to posit a critique of the biomedical model in itself, as Arthur Kleinman has demonstrated in The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition (Basic Books, 1988). As she rightly points out, the public health discourse neither accommodates people’s beliefs in spiritual modalities of healing nor considers their socio-economic conditions. However, it is also vital to take a step further to argue that the rational, scientific and medico-legal vocabulary of biomedicine is intrinsic to public health discourse. More importantly, the critique of biomedicine as a system needs to be foregrounded, as it establishes itself as a distinct paradigm on a higher pedestal, through which the healing process becomes increasingly depersonalized and unidimensional. Nevertheless, her work offers a remarkable reading experience and hence, is highly recommended for medical anthropologists.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"346 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45395502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy for cultural and creative industries in India: the issue of regulation through digital policy","authors":"Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2203902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2203902","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the evolution of public policy for cultural and creative industries in the context of building India as a digital nation. How has the rise of digital industries in the building of the country permeated policies related to cultural industries, and what have been the consequences of this trend? It will also explore the tensions regarding the evolution of the role of the State in shaping and regulating such industries in the broader context of culture being increasingly associated with national identity. This article starts by showing that in a context where cultural policies remain centered on heritage, the support to culture by the state has remained limited, both in financial terms as well as regarding the implementation of specific regulations which would require protection from traditional market forces. Then, it analyzes several action plans that have been developed as part of the Digital India government initiative and assesses emerging issues for the cultural and creative industries, which are increasingly associated with the functioning of digital devices and operators. Finally, it discussed recent modalities of state intervention through the transfer of the role of cultural operator to digital platforms and the attempts to control expressions.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"326 - 340"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47052859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Introduction: Platform Challenges to Creative Industries in India","authors":"Christine Ithurbide, Philippe Bouquillion, V. Parthasarathi, P. Sneha","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2203904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2203904","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent developments in digital technologies in South Asia require special attention on the restructuring of industries based on creativity, arts and culture. More specifically, powerful players from the communication industries have been at the heart of changes in the legacy creative industries. The aim of this special section is twofold. On the one hand, to critically assess transformations taking place in the industrial and policy dynamics shaping the creative industries in India; and, on the other hand, to identify the peculiarity of Indian dynamics amidst what is widely perceived as a fairly uniform set of global phenomena. Through examples focusing on audiovisual and music sectors, the contributions explore how these dynamics are deeply anchored within social and political contexts at the local, national and global scales, and how – far from its emancipatory promise – the digital often tends to reinforce uneven economic scenarios and power relations.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"268 - 275"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41607157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Media discourse in contemporary India: a study of television news","authors":"S. Sathianathan","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2207905","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2207905","url":null,"abstract":"communities and national (and, before that, colonialist and missionary) value systems. The main prisms through which Dasgupta elucidates ‘tribal’ identity as an open concept involving multiple perspectives and dynamic processes of ordering and reordering are the Oraons of Chhotanagpur and their influential participation in the infamous Tana Bhagat movement. Alongside the Santals, Mundas, Bhumij, and Hos, ‘the Oraons’ are one of the dominant ‘tribal’ communities in southern Jharkhand, whose stereotypical presence in the colonial imaginary gave way in the preIndependence period to a culture of Gandhian protest. This became operational via a new aesthetics of devotion (bhakti) and demanded a new politics of representation. It is the overtly ‘Oraon’ (or tribal) politics of presenting rights, demands and aspirations as Adivasi that sustains Dasgupta’s multifaceted enquiry. This signals a broader objective: to deconstruct, and thereby to present a nuanced and critical account of, the constituent cultural voices and social agents that combined in this historic shift, which has assumed post-Independence resonance for many contemporary Oraons. A prolonged assessment of the internal dynamics and changing ecology of the Oraons’ agrarian polities (the ‘tanas’), and associated protest and heritage movements, therefore ensues. The author’s standing as one of the earliest and most committed exponents of Adivasi Studies in India itself a multidisciplinary project that attempts to ensure within the context of Higher Education the kinds of mutual understanding and respect outlined above means that the book will interest historians of India’s indigenous and minority peoples, as well as sociologists and anthropologists involved in reassessing the significance of national, Gandhian, revolutionary, judicial and historiographic projects in regions like Jharkhand. It is very interesting that the Adivasi and overtly Oraon worlds that are under consideration here are animated by important non-Adivasi figures within India’s anthropological, legal and political history, namely Sarat Chandra Roy, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and K.S. Singh. The stories and identities that emerge are simultaneously ‘tribal’ and Indigenous, regional and national.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"344 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49175613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dirty politics and political care in local politics: gendered barriers to moral boundary crossing in Dehradun, India","authors":"Tanya Jakimow","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2206995","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2206995","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT ‘Politics is dirty’ is a truism, a taken-for-granted reality in much of the world, particularly in India. Its implications are likewise seen as inescapable. Scholarship examining women’s political underrepresentation often cites the ‘dirty’ nature of democratic politics as a key disincentive for women to participate. While not disputing that politics is, in some respects, ‘dirty’, I question the mechanisms through which it is said to hinder women’s political representation. Drawing upon ethnographic research with female party workers and elected municipal councillors in Dehradun, North India, I analyse how ‘dirty politics’ positions women as ‘out of place’ within the political realm. While both men and women engage in acts of political care, men can more easily transgress the boundaries between them, straddling both ‘dirty politics’ and a ‘politics of care’. This production of the ‘political’ as a realm unsuitable for women or mismatched with their activities, is one factor contributing to the underrepresentation of women in politics in South Asia, and beyond.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"165 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46116025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Books Available for Review","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2207912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2207912","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bottom-up imaginaries: examining discursive construction of social media roles and affordances in India","authors":"K. Bhatia","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2206996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2206996","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, I analyze discourses around the introduction of Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Code – new changes in laws regulating new media companies in India, and how these discourses inform the imaginations about the rights and duties of corporations and citizens in the country. I argue that though these guidelines were brought into effect through legal and juridical channels, they were reified through state-led and user-generated political discourse, constituting bottom-up imaginaries about the governance of social media platforms. To comprehensively analyze the impact of the guidelines regulating social media companies, this article argues for the need to examine the interlinkages between online discourse and policy regulations at three levels of operation: (a) the government’s imagination for the country’s digital future, (b) quotidian online discourse reifying the politics of regulation and (c) the dominant imagination of social media as socio-political actors responsible for upholding democracy, the freedom of speech of users, and dissent. Based on the findings and analysis, I argue that the regulation of social media platforms in India demonstrates reconfiguring relationships between social media companies, emerging forms of nationalism, and the government’s expectations of compliance from social media companies.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"251 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42091446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Alien at birth: Chinese migrants in post-colonial Assam (1947-1962)","authors":"Papari Saikia","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2203900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2203900","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 This article investigates the relationship of a migrant community with the state in a borderland. The relationship between the Indian state and Chinese-origin migrants in post-colonial Assam can be characterised by two themes: control and resilience. On the one hand, the state tried to control the community through strict bureaucratic procedures. On the other hand, the Chinese community showed resilience by adhering to or negotiating with the control mechanisms. This article also seeks to understand the nationality and citizenship issues of community members, in particular the second and third generations of migrants. In this article, I argue that ambiguities of citizenship status, and the state’s reluctance or negligence in resolving their citizenship issues, had grave consequences for the community as they had to struggle for their fundamental rights. This issue of ambiguous citizenship caused severe unrest in the region in the later decades, which could also have been avoided.","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"179 - 192"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42289702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Painting stories: lives and legacies from an Indian crafts village","authors":"S. K. Ananda Krishnan","doi":"10.1080/09584935.2023.2207903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2023.2207903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45569,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary South Asia","volume":"31 1","pages":"342 - 343"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44005119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}