Vol. 61 No. 1 (2024): Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia

Published: 01-07-2024

Full Issue

• June 2024 Editorial

Editorial

• EDITORIAL Should I care about everyone else?

  Susan Philip

  i-iii

  • EDITORIAL: Should I care about everyone else?

• GUEST EDITORIAL: Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia

  Om Prakash Dwivedi, Isha Malhotra

  1-4

  • Guest Editorial“Faces of Precarity: Restructuring Care-mentality in Asia”

Articles

• Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity

  Debajyoti Biswas, Jayashree Haloi

  5-27

  • Postcolonial Ecology & The Cunning of Modernity: Iyat Ekhon Aranya Asil as a Critique of Postcolonial Modernity

• Symbiogenesis, Biocapitalism, and Subversion in Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore

  Binayak Roy

  28-48

  • Symbiogenesis, Biocapitalism, and Subversion in Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore

• Aging, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives

  Debashrita Dey, Priyanka Tripathi

  49-79

  • Aging, Alzheimer’s, and Precarity: Comprehending Vulnerabilities and Care Approaches in Select Indian Fictional Narratives

• Precarious Oceans and Vulnerability: Micropolitics of Care in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

  Abhisek Ghosal

  80-102

  • Precarious Oceans and Vulnerability: Micropolitics of Care in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef

• Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women Emerging as Caregivers: A Visual Analysis of the Refugee Webcomic I Am a Leader of My House

  Rishav Bali, Isha Malhotra

  103-132

  • Precarious Lives of Rohingya Refugee Women Emerging as Caregivers: A Visual Analysis of the Refugee Webcomic I Am a Leader of My House

• Foodocracy and the Politics of Radical Care in The Black Soil

  Om Prakash Dwivedi

  133-151

  • Foodocracy and the Politics of Radical Care in The Black Soil

GENERAL SECTION

• Beefing up Resistance Onscreen: Cow Politics and Non-vegetarian Carnivals in Post- 2015 Malayalam Films

  Chithira James, Reju George Mathew

  152-175

  • Beefing up Resistance Onscreen: Cow Politics and Non-vegetarian Carnivals in Post- 2015 Malayalam Films

• Psychogeographical Remapping of Hong Kong between Being and Non-being in Liu Yichang’s Intersection

  Jianbo Su, Pillai Shanthini

  176-200

  • Psychogeographical Remapping of Hong Kong between Being and Non-being in Liu Yichang’s Intersection

• The Prisoner of the Precarious Body: An Odyssey of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati

  Anshul Dhankar, Devendra Kumar Sharma

  201-226

  • The Prisoner of the Precarious Body: An Odyssey of Dalit Women in Bama’s Sangati

Fiction & Poetry

• Weathering

  Christian Jil Repalda Benitez

  252-253

  • Weathering

• 3 Poems - Estuary of Mud, Petaling Street (茨厂街), 168 Noodles, Pudu

  Chwan Shiuh Tan

  254-256

  • Estuary of Mud

• Bandar Sri Permaisuri

  Soon Vin Lim

  257-258

  • Bandar Sri Permaisuri

Interview

• ‘I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it’: Conversation with Kalyani Thakur Charal

  DEBDATTA CHAKRABORTY, SARBANI BANERJEE

  227-238

  • “I am Chandalini, and I am Proud of that. You must Accept and Respect it”: In Conversation with Kalyani Thakur Charal

• Speaking and Writing the Anthropocene : In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra

  Zainor Izat Zainal, Mr. Muhammad Syaukat, Noritah Omar

  2390251

  • Speaking and Writing the Anthropocene: In Conversation with Cecil Rajendra

Book Reviews

• K. Vaishali K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. ISBN 978-93-92099-51-9.

  Dwitiya Sarkar, Dhiman Roy

  259-264

  • K. Vaishali, Homeless: Growing up Lesbian and Dyslexic in India. Hyderabad: Yoda Press. 2023. ISBN 978-93-92099-51-9.

• Yaqin, Amina. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. ISBN 9781785277566 (Anthem Press, 2022), 280 pages

  Nukhbah Taj Langah

  265-268

  • Yaqin, Amina. Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing. ISBN 9781785277566 (Anthem Press, 2022), 280 pages

• Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Eds). Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 398 pp. ISBN 978-981-15-2630-5.

  Aneesh Barai

  269-272

  • Bernard Wilson and Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Eds). Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age: Local, National, and Transnational Trajectories

• Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2024. 272 pp. ISBN 978-981-18-6035-5.

  Tejash Kumar Singh

  273-277

  • Prasanthi Ganapathy Ram. Nine Yard Sarees: A Short Story Cycle. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2024. 272 pp. ISBN 978-981-18-6035-5.

Notes on Contributors

• Notes on Contributors Notes on Contributors

  Susan Philip

  278-286

  • Notes on Contributors