{"product_id":"decolonial-keywords-south-asian-thoughts-and-attitudes-hardcover","title":"Decolonial Keywords: South Asian Thoughts and Attitudes - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRenny Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSasanka Perera\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of South Asia and its vast cultural landscape. It reiterates specific attitudes, ways of seeing and methods of doing, which are embedded in the historical and contemporary experiences in the region. The words, concepts, ideas and attitudes in the volume explore the contexts of their production and how their meanings might have changed at different historical moments. The volume also attempts to work out if these words and concepts can infuse a certain intellectual rigor to reinvent social sciences and humanities in the region and beyond. Individual essays, which are creative, imaginative, ethnographic and historical, explore the possibility of South Asian intellectual \u003ci\u003eworlds \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ewords \u003c\/i\u003eto create a broader crossregional and global social science and humanities. The volume argues that it is important to move away from the intellectual shackles inherited from colonial and neo-colonial experiences while also not succumbing to the traps of local reductionist nativisms and cultural nationalisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenny Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal, India, and was the Taki Visiting Global Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, New York, USA (2024-25). Before joining IISER, he taught Sociology at the University of Delhi (2015-21). He has been a Charles Wallace Fellow in Social Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (2017-18) and a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Cultural History at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany (2022-23). He is the author of \u003ci\u003eScience and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment \u003c\/i\u003e(2021) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMapping Scientific Method: Disciplinary Narrations\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasanka Perera\u003c\/b\u003e is Chairman of the Colombo Institute for Human Sciences, and was Professor of Sociology at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka and South Asian University (SAU), New Delhi. He is the author of several books including \u003ci\u003eViolence and the Burden of Memory: Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eWarzone Tourism in Sri Lanka: Tales from Darker Places in Paradise \u003c\/i\u003e(2016) and\u003ci\u003e The Fear of the Visual? Photography, Anthropology and Anxieties of Seeing\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). He has edited and co-edited various volumes including \u003ci\u003eSociology and Social Anthropology in South Asia: Histories and Practices\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003e Intersections of Contemporary Art, Anthropology and Art History in South Asia: Decoding Visual Worlds \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Nation: Thinking Like South Asians\u003c\/i\u003e (2019) and\u003ci\u003e Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia: Anxiety, Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times \u003c\/i\u003e(2022).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 324\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52044108890413,"sku":"9788197938306","price":65.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/decolonial-keywords-south-asian-thoughts-and-attitudes-hardcover-6933048.webp?v=1780170907","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/decolonial-keywords-south-asian-thoughts-and-attitudes-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}