Spatialities, Materialities and Communication in South India

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 Pillai’s 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 – What’s 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.