 | | | | | | Beyond Blank Spaces: Five Tracks to Late Nineteenth-Century Beltana From the 1860s, the colonial settlement of Beltana in the northern deserts of South Australia emerged as a transportation hub atop an existing, cosmopolitan center of Aboriginal trade. Viewing a colonial settlement on Kuyani land through a mobilities paradigm, this article examines intersecting settler and Aboriginal trajectories of movement through Beltana, illuminating their complex entanglements. Challenging the imperial myth of emptiness that shaped how Europeans saw the lands they invaded, this article renders visible the multiple imaginative geographies that existed at every colonial... | | | Media Ownership Although " media ownership " is a fairly straightforward concept, it can be further qualified according to a variety of forms. These include horizontal (the ownership of distinct but similar media products), vertical (the ownership of different stages of production and distribution of media), and diagonal (the cross-ownership of diverse media businesses). Ownership structures might also be described as family owned, stockholder owned, or publicly owned (as in the case of public broadcasting). Different ownership structures are associated with different systems of control and different... | | | The Greater Caspian Project, No. 20, Geostrategy and Global Politics: The Expanded Neighborhood Issue Our third edition of the renamed 'Greater Caspian Project' is the fullest blossoming to date of just how expansive and important this region is to the world in general. The greater Caspian region encompasses areas of the world that extend all the way from the Atlantic to the Pacific when you consider the geostrategic tentacles that come from the decisions made. This issue lets readers see that process in explicit detail as subjects cut across Russia, Iran, the Middle East, South Asia, all the way out to Eastern China. As is often the case in the world of global affairs and international... | | | May We Never Forget The Dalit student Rohith Vemula, who committed suicide on the University of Hyderabad campus on 17 January 2016, left behind a moving and unusual suicide note. My piece published in Bangla in the 26 January issue of Ananda Bazar Patrika responds mainly to this suicide note. What I am posting here is an English translation plus the published version of my Bangla text. | | | Left out? Digital media, radical politics and social change This paper begins from the basic premise that in considering digital media and its multifarious relations with forms of protest and political mobilization, we are interested in social change. Yet, too often, the key ingredient of protest and political mobilization – the radical politics itself – is left out of our analyses. How can we begin to tackle the challenges posed to democratic politics if we do not talk about actual politics as part of our research? This problem is both conceptual and practical. A politics requires a practice. We cannot understand the nature of the practice without... | | | Rohith Vemula: Hindutva Politics and Dalit Question Today With the death of Rohith Vemula many a questions have come up. The ruling party MP on one hand called him anti national, the MHRD minister said it is not a dalit question. On one hand the Hindutva politics is becoming more aggressive, on the other it is trying to co-opt Ambedkar and Dalits. | | |
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