This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how local cultures of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are impacted by global discourses and media, such as television, popular music, digital media, and literature. The authors look at sense-making practices and spatial discourses through an interconnected discussion on thought and experience that seeks to present a multidimensional cartography of the global, the local, and the glocal, to closely analyze the phenomenon of globalization. The volume is an investigation of the possibilities of alternate, sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified, ethical, biopolitical worldview that challenges the disparity of its fragments while speculating on their synesthetic conditionality. A unique contribution, the book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature, media studies, cultural studies, literary cultures, post-colonial studies, globalization studies, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, and social anthropology.
Über den Autor Simi (Hrsg.) Malhotra
Simi Malhotra has a cumulative experience of more than twenty-two years of teaching and research guidance at PhD, MPhil, and postgraduate and undergraduate levels. Her latest publications are the co-authored/co-edited books Ocean as Method: Thinking with the Maritime (2022), Terrains of Consciousness: Multilogical Perspectives on Globalization (2021), Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021), and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021). She is the recipient of several grants and awards, the latest being the 2020 DUO-India Professor Fellowship Award.Sakshi Dogra currently teaches English literature and language at Gargi College (University of Delhi) as Assistant Professor. She is also a PhD research scholar at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia. She is broadly interested in affect theory; study of moods and atmospheres; and emotions, feelings, and their function in constituting people and cultures. She has co-edited Food Culture Studies in India: Consumption, Representation and Mediation (2021) and Inhabiting Cyberspace in India: Theory, Perspectives and Challenges (2021), both published by Springer Nature. She is also the co-editor of Imagining Worlds, Mapping Possibilities: Select Science Fiction Stories (2020). She has presented papers at both national and international conferences.Jubi C. John is a PhD scholar and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of English, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She was the co-chief organizer of the Young Researchers' Conference on 'As a Matter of Affect: Making Sense of Planetarity,' conducted by the Department of English, JMI. Her PhD thesis looks at corporeal subjectivity, body politics, and sexual dynamics in Caribbean Island Women's narratives. Her research interests are in the field of embodiment and desire, popular culture and digital spaces, island studies, and memory studies. Previously, she has delivered lectures at the University of Delhi and Jamia Millia Islamia.