Art Attacks: Violence and Offence-Taking in India

ISBN-13: 9780199488841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 376 str.

Malvika Maheshwari

Recenzje

Art Attacks is a very well-researched book and the author displays a sophisticated knowledge of the political and of the significant shifts experienced in the world of politics, state institutions and their actors over recent decades...Art Attacks deserves to be read widely as it oers much food for thought on the shifting texture of Indian society, the limits of democracy, but also the role of "containment" by those who consider themselves arbiters not only of visual and material worlds but of the very nature of culture.

O autorze

Malvika Maheshwari is Assistant Professor of political science at Ashoka University. She holds degrees in the discipline from Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and earned her doctorate from Sciences Po, Paris in 2011. Prior to joining Ashoka, Malvika taught courses on Indian and South Asian politics at Sciences Po (Paris) and (Le Havre), and was a research associate at the Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi.) Her research interests include questions around the interrelations between art and politics, to violence and the workings of the Indian democracy. Her articles have been published in journals like Studies in Indian Politics, Economic and Political Weekly, Raisons Politiques, South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, The Arts Politic among others. Art Attacks: Violence and Offence-Taking in India is her first book.