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Bare Acts

Bare Acts

Monica Narula

This collection foregrounds these issues in a way we hope can make a series of coherent but autonomous and interrelated arguments.
Frontiers

Frontiers

Monica Narula

Significance of boundaries, limits, and margins of the state, of technology and technique, art and science, of the individual, of languages, thoughts, and convictions, of faith, literature, and reportage; contributed articles on various ...
Turbulence

Turbulence

Monica Narula

Philip Bounds teaches in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at the University of Wales. Swansea. He has lectured and published widely in the field of cultural studies. He writes frequently for the left press.
THE CHAKH LE INDIA Cookbook:

THE CHAKH LE INDIA Cookbook:

Aditya Bal

A weekor solater Ifound myself sitting at Marrut Sikka's 'Magique' in Delhi,asking him foradviceon howtogoabout things, when he suggested thatI go and meet Monica Narula at NDTV Good Times. Atthe time, he was hosting a cookery show for ...
Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, ...

Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, ...

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It is this privatization of property—a legal hack—that creates the conditions for every other hack by which. Raqs Media Collective, Lost New Shoes, 2005. Installation view at PM Gallery and House, London. Photo by Monica Narula. Courtesy of ...
Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the Megacity

Finding Delhi: Loss and Renewal in the Megacity

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On the stigmatization of urban informal economies, see Solomon Benjamin, ' Touts, Pirates and Ghosts', in Monica Narula et al. (eds), Sarai Reader 05: Bare Acts (Delhi: Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 2005), pp. 242–55; and  ...
Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and ...

Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and ...

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In Sarai Reader 2, edited by Ravi S. Vasudevan, Jeebesh Bagchi, Ravi Sundaram, Monica Narula, Geert Lovink and Shuddhabrata Sengupta, 68–77. New Delhi: Sarai. Mazumdar, Ranjani. 2007. Bombay Cinema an Archive of the City.
InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen

InterMedia in South Asia: The Fourth Screen

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Ed. Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Monica Narula, Ravi Vasudevan and Ravi Sundaram. New Delhi: Sarai Media Lab, 2004. 110–7. Print. Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. Trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith. New York: Zone Books, 1994.
Anarchitexts: A Subsol Anthology

Anarchitexts: A Subsol Anthology

Joanne Richardson

Jeebesh Bagchi, Monica Narula, Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Ravi Sundaram and Ravi Vasudevan (India) delhi — the context of sarai > The streets of Delhi are now dug up to lay fibre optic cables, and tracks for a long awaited metro. Frequent ...
Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

Postdate: Photography and Inherited History in India

Jodi Throckmorton

(Jeebesh Bagchi, born New Delhi, 1965; Monica Narula, born New Delhi, 1969; Shuddhabrata Sengupta, born New Delhi 1968; live and work in New Delhi) Plate 1 Ceasural Variation I, 2007. raqs media collective Raqs Media Collective was ...
Early Santa Monica

Early Santa Monica

Louise B. Gabriel

The vintage photographs in this tour through Santa Monica's beginnings and its growth through the early 20th century were selected from the archives of the Santa Monica Historical Society Museum.
Kate and Emma

Kate and Emma

Monica Dickens

Monica Dickens's novel, first published in 1965, opens in a Juvenile court in London.
Cristi Puiu

Cristi Puiu

Monica Filimon

Monica Filimon explores the works of an artist dedicated to truth not as an abstract concept, but as the ephemeral revelation of the fuller, ungraspable world beyond the screen.
Just Friends:

Just Friends:

Monica Murphy

And Monica brings it in this super sexy and refreshing, un-put-down-able YA!" -- #1 NYT Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken It’s the end of summer. Just before I start senior year with my two best friends in the whole world.
Santa Monica: A History on the Edge

Santa Monica: A History on the Edge

Paula A. Scott

An icon of Southern California and one of America's most imaginative and vibrant cities--the fitting destination at the end of Route 66--Santa Monica lies on the brink of the West and is known throughout the nation for its beaches and its ...
Monica Meira

Monica Meira

Germán Rubiano Caballero

This thematic study of the work of Mónica Meira illustrates the varied techniques—including drawings, engravings, paintings, and portraits—of artistic expression of one of Latin America’s most revered artists through the hundreds of ...
Killing Monica

Killing Monica

Candace Bushnell

With her trademark humour and style, Killing Monica is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date. This is Bushnell at her best - full of mordant wit, casual sex and highly conspicuous consumption.
Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics

Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics

Monica Furlong

Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience.
Belén Gopegui:

Belén Gopegui:

Hayley Rabanal

Carrillo, Santiago (2000), 'The Consensus-building Role of the Spanish Communist Party' [translated by Monica Threlfall], in Monica Threlfall (ed.), Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives, Bristol: Intellect Books, 53–60 de Castro ...
Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-century ...

Conceptualizing Cruelty to Children in Nineteenth-century ...

Monica Flegel

Considering a wide range of texts by authors such as Locke, Rousseau, Caroline Norton, Henry Mayhew, Frances Trollope, and Charles Dickens, Monica Flegel provides an interpretive framework for understanding the formation of child cruelty ...
Santa Monica in Vintage Postcards

Santa Monica in Vintage Postcards

Marlin L. Heckman

. . " In over 200 vintage postcards, here is Santa Monica in all its coastal splendor, including views of the bathing beaches, the Roosevelt Highway, and private citizens' beautiful Chinese Gardens.
Santa Monica in Vintage Postcards

Santa Monica in Vintage Postcards

Marlin L. Heckman

. . " In over 200 vintage postcards, here is Santa Monica in all its coastal splendor, including views of the bathing beaches, the Roosevelt Highway, and private citizens' beautiful Chinese Gardens.
Women's Review

Women's Review

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Jane Aaron, Ursula Alexis, Amazon Publications, Alison As- siter, A Austin, Jean Barker, Helen Barrett, Priscilla Bennett, Gillian Bibby, Liz Bisset, J E Blackburn, G Boden, Monica Bohm Duchen, Barbara Boving- ton, Monica Bowdler, Audrey ...
The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

The Cool and the Crazy: Pop Fifties Cinema

Peter Stanfield

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Brian Chidester and Daniel Priore, Pop Surf Culture: Music, Design, Film, and Fashion from the Bohemian Surf Boom (Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Press,  ...
Gendering Spanish Democracy

Gendering Spanish Democracy

Monica Threlfall

Contents Acknowledgements be List of abbreviations xi 1 Introduction 1 MONICA THRELFALL AND CHRISTINE COUSINS PARTI Gendering democratic Spain 9 2 Gendering the transition to democracy: reassessing the impact of women's ...
Prayers and Poems

Prayers and Poems

Monica Furlong

A collection of prayers and poems by Monica Furlong, bringing together the prayers in Women Included and her book God's a Good Man.
Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility

Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility

Monica J. Casper

In Missing Bodies, Monica J. Casper and Lisa Jean Moore explore the surveillance, manipulations, erasures, and visibility of the body in the twenty-first century.
Irish American Heritage Center

Irish American Heritage Center

Monica Dougherty

Monica Dougherty, Mary Beth Sammons. Mary (G'Looney) G'Reilly was born in 1922 in Ennistymon, County Clare. Mary's love of culture went back to her home in Ireland, where her mother had a trained mezzo—soprano voice, and Mary and  ...
Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia ...

Governing the Uncertain: Adaptation and Climate in Russia ...

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Adaptation and Climate in Russia and Finland Monica Tennberg ... 3 Monica Tennberg 2 Adaptation as a Governance Practice . ... 17 Monica Tennberg Part II Russian Adaptation Governance 3 Adaptation in Russian Climate Governance .
Women and Politics Around the World: A Comparative History ...

Women and Politics Around the World: A Comparative History ...

Joyce Gelb

Threlfall, Monica. 2005b. “Gendering the Transition to Democracy: Reassessing the Impact of Women's Activism.” In Gendering Spanish Democracy, edited by Monica Threlfall, Christine Cousins, and Celia Valiente, 11–53. London: Routledge ...

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