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  This research explores how film practice, both
  as methodology and outcome of the inquiry can be mobilised to
  explore negotiated imaginations of the Bengal famine from a
  caste-subaltern perspective?
  
  The Bengal famine of 1943, in which nearly three million people
  died, was man-made. A multitude of factors led to the famine,
  including British colonial policies, war, hoarding and profiteering
  by local elites and businesses, and existing faultlines of caste, class
  and gender. In recent years, scholars have focused on scrutinising
  the famine from an anti-colonial perspective. Still, a gap exists in
  exploring the intersectionality of caste-related subalternities and
  the famine. However, the immediate concern with filling this gap
  is ethical-methodological: even from the lens of caste-subaltern
  consciousness, how does one arrive at and share stories of the
  famine, and can they ever be ‘recovered’ and ‘represented’? This
  dilemma and tension animate this PhD in Artistic Practice.
  
  Taking the Gramscian notion of subalterns as people/groups on
  the margins of history, subaltern studies, especially in India, have
  consistently focused on the need to write history from below.
  On the one hand, scholars and historians have looked at archival
  materials for erasures of subaltern history and foregrounded
  them. On the other hand, they have mobilised methods such as
  oral history to recuperate the subaltern histories. In a limited
  sense, this research adheres to this tradition. It looks at existing
  films on the Bengal famine and makes critical interventions in
  them to foreground the caste question, and it also aims to create
  ‘new’ material through collaborative fieldwork-filming and
  workshops. However, this PhD also departs from the tradition
  as it is not a recuperative historical project. It focuses on the
  creative, collaborative, and negotiated processes of imagining
  and engaging with that history.
  
  Through an iterative, collaborative and reflective film practice,
  this research suggests that filmmaking can foreground subaltern
  epistemologies and ontologies when it is not merely seen as
  product-oriented but also as a knowledge activity. Moreover, it
  can foreground an ethos of active and continuous negotiation
  and enable the emergence of multiple, contested and layered
  narratives. Lastly, this research proposes a shift away from
  ‘recovery’ and ‘representation’ of the ‘authentic’ caste-subaltern
  experiences of the famine and toward negotiated imagination.
  
  About the author: Ram Krishna Ranjan works at the intersection of
  research, pedagogy and film practice and currently teaches in the
  film program at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.
  
  

• Tuotetiedot

  • Kustantaja / Valmistaja ArtMonitor
  • ISBN 9789180693813
  • Tuotekoodi 9789180693813
  • Kirjoittajat Ram Krishna Ranjan
  • Sarja Artmonitor avhandling /96
  • Kieli Englanti
  • Thema-luokitus Elokuvatutkimus
  • Ilmestymispäivä 01.11.2023
  • Vuosi 2023
  • Painos 1
  • Tuoteryhmä Ruots harrasteet, taide
  • Tuotepääryhmä Ruotsinkieliset kirjat
  • Tuotelinja Kirjat
  • Sivumäärä 336
  • Avainsanat Film; Artistic Research; Bengal famine; Caste; Subaltern; Dalit; Negotiated imagination
  • Kirjastoluokka ATFA
  • Tuotemuoto Pehmeäkantinen
  • Tuotemuodon lisätiedot Haka- tai satulasidottu
  • ALV 13,5%

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