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South Asian Visual Culture Series
SavifaDok – the digital repository for South Asian Studies – also hosts the South Asian Visual Culture Series, edited by Christiane Brosius (Anthropologist at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg) and Sumathi Ramaswamy (Historian, Duke University). This initiative is an outcome of a joint project by Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture, and the Cluster of Excellence Asia and Europe in a Global Context at Heidelberg University. The series aims at publishing papers that engage in exploring transcultural visual studies as a new challenging field in fields such as art history, visual/media studies, social anthropology or history and political sciences
The role of images in the context of diverse global cultural processes and historical phenomena is recognised yet still under-researched. Assuming that the flows of images are by no means symmetrical, but driven by varying forces, motivations and discourses, we aim at addressing this transgressing mobility as a key challenge by tying it to current theoretical debates as well as concrete case studies (e.g. the recent Danish Cartoon debate or the journeys of Christian iconographies from Europe to India and China in the 17th century). Some of the key fields of exploration within the network are the social and performative life of images; the histories and everyday lives and voices of producers, disseminators and ‘consumers’; various techniques of visuality/media of visualisation.
