Spatialities, Materialities and Communication in South India

Gopalan Ravindran received his PhD from the University of Madras. He is Dean of the School of Communication and Head of the Department of Media and Communication at the Central University of Tamil Nadu, India. He is the editor of Deleuzian and Guattarian Approaches to Contemporary Communication Cultures in India (2020).

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.