Research Essays
Geeta Kapur develops a critique of patriarchy, colonialism, and nationalism in her creative critical reading of the lives and works of Amrita Sher-Gil and Frida Kahlo this paper explores her critical position on both artisits and their roles in decolonising art.
What does it mean to treat “civil war” as a category of practice? A category of analysis? How have scholars tended to treat civil war? Is it possible to disentangle the analytical autonomy of “civil war” from its practical usage? If so, how? This paper explores the question what might we gain from establishing “civil war” as a category of analysis, especially in our contemporary, “global civil war”?
In discussing the Greenberg/Rosenberg debate, we established a scaffolding of objective (Greenberg) vs. subjective (Rosenberg) critical analysis. In this paper we rebuild this scaffolding and, time permitting, suggest whether we might think about objectivity and subjectivity in criticism differently.
This essay examines specific works of visual art in ‘Directions to My House’, a memoir by visual artist Zarina Hashmi (with Sarah Burney), and a series of works titled under ‘Home is a Foreign Place’. Zarina’s work through use of cartography and her predilection towards minimalism and imagined abstraction of spaces; lived and lost, presents a unique capacity that maps and recognizes the inherent dialectic of history and memory.
Historically, this famine has been categorised as anthropogenic (man-made); the causations attributed to a failure of colonial wartime policies, poor distribution of food and inflation. However, some researchers maintain the famine occurred due to natural causes such as drought and delayed rainfall, we will explore evidentiary data and reports on both points of contention through this paper.