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1. Dissent and Cultural Resistance in Asia’s Cities

   Edited by Melissa Butcher, Selvaraj Velayutham

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book documents urban experiences of dissent and emergent resistance against disjunctive global and local capital, technology and labour flows that converge and intersect in some of Asia’s fastest growing cities. Rather than constructing occupants of the city as simply passive victims of...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Tamil Cinema

   The Cultural Politics of India's other Film Industry

   Edited by Selvaraj Velayutham

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Hitherto, the academic study of Indian cinema has focused primarily on Bollywood, despite the fact that the Tamil film industry, based in southern India, has overtaken Bollywood in terms of annual output. This book examines critically the cultural and cinematic representations in Tamil cinema. It...

   Published February 24th 2009 by Routledge