The Light of Knowledge Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are p...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009425655406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside
- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism
- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency
- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy
- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment
- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature
- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.
