Tag: Imaginations

Free Download Yatta Kanu, "Curriculum as Cultural Practice: Postcolonial Imaginations"
English | ISBN: 0802090788 | 2006 | 348 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Initiatives that deconstruct and challenge the dominance of Western cultural knowledge in curriculum are gaining momentum, and though some of the most potent challenges come from the field of postcolonial theory, the implications of these challenges for theorizing curriculum have not been fully explored. Curriculum as Cultural Practice aims to revitalize current discourses of curriculum research and reform from a postcolonial perspective.

Free Download Indranil Acharya, "Geographical Imaginations: Literature and the ‘Spatial Turn’"
English | ISBN: 0192869043 | 2022 | 140 pages | PDF | 1184 KB
Matters of space, spatiality, geography, topography and place have mostly remained neglected in modern scholarship and teaching because in most modern and postmodern literary criticism history and temporality have been dominating discourses. But in recent criticism the "when" and "what" of literature yield place to "where" as Michel Foucault declared the present time as "the epoch of space". Literature reflects a spirit of place and a sense of place because place is known and given meaning when it is felt and closely experienced by human beings living in it. This humanistic geographical emphasis on human experience of place opens up the possibility of an interdisciplinary study of literature of geography. Literature creates and recreates geography in its own way and there are many ways of looking at literary representation of space and place. The book is meant to offer a good introduction to those divergent ways in which space, place, topography and geography evince themselves in literature.

Free Download Narendar Pani, "Bengaluru, Bangalore, Bengaluru: Imaginations and Their Times"
English | ISBN: 8132103033 | 2010 | 308 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Probing into the history beyond mere historical facts, this book focuses on the ′imaginations′ that have determined the course of Bengaluru over the last two-and-a-half centuries. It puts together contemporary accounts of the imaginations of those who were heard at each point of time. This approach is particularly relevant in present day India, of the current time where debates on history are largely a matter of choosing one set of historical facts instead of another.