The book is a unique material marker of the spatial journeys of people, rulers, philosophers, men, women, their material objects, occupations and media during the past two millennia in South India. It has four sections on historical trajectories, everyday lives, public communication and media materialities.
The spatial and material dimensions of communication have changed dramatically over the past three millennia in South India. The historical and contemporary trajectories of these changes are revealed, explored, documented, critiqued and examined in this work. This book is comprehensive in its engagements with three locationsspatiality, materiality and communication, in the contexts of Tamil Nadu, South India. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach to communication and media studies. It leverages the multifaceted knowledge seeking spirit of the ancient philosophers of Tamil Nadu for understanding the contexts of spatialities, materialities and communication.
Across four sections on historical trajectories, everyday lives, public communication and media materialities, its 20 chapters on diverse topics offer unique engagements of the spatial journeys of people, rulers, philosophers, men, women, as well as their material objects, occupations and media during the past three millennia in South India, with a focus on Tamil Nadu.
Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction From Rock Art through
Palm Manuscripts, Stone Epigraphy, and Sculptures: Materialities and
Spatialities of Ancient and Medieval South India Colonial Contestations and
Encounters of the Spatialities and Materialities of Natives and Their Rulers
Exploring the Spatialities, Materialities, and Temporalities of
Communication in 18th- Century Pondicherry with Anandarangam Pillais Diaries
Everyday Lives, Communication, Marginalized Spatialities and Materialities
in Chennai The Cultural Politics of Noise, Sound, and Music in South India
Materialities of Everyday Life of Fishermen at the Crossroads of Spatial
Politics Spatial Transformations and Social Subjects: The Political Economy
of Space in Chennai Materialities of Food Cultures, Communication, and
Their Contested Spaces in South India The Fractured Right to Movement,
Public Communication, and Other Implications of Postcolonial Spatialities in
Tamil Nadu Discordant Notes: Mapping the Contesting Spatialities and
Materialities of Music in South India Whats in a Beach? Air of Peace or
Protests? The Case of Marina Beach, Chennai, as a Site of Protest
Communication Corporeality, Space, Communication, and Caste Materialities
of Communication and Development in South India Materiality and Spatiality
of Television in Tamil Nadu Critical Readings of Filmic Spaces and Their
Material Objects in Tamil Cinema Materiality of Memes and Marginalized
Youth: Tamil Films and Social Media in their Rhizomatic Flows and Digital
Becomings Mobile Phone Materialities and Their Spatial Markers in Tamil
Nadu Materialities and Spatialities of Photographic Cultures in Tamil Nadu
Materialities and Spatialities of Print Cultures in Tamil Nadu.
Gopalan Ravindran received his PhD from the University of Madras. He is Dean of the School of Communication and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. He is the editor of Deleuzian and Guattarian Approaches to Contemporary Communication Cultures in India (2020).
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