The consumerist movement around medicalization of bodies and anti-aging technologies is re-defining how one grows old in today’s societies. With the popularity of the “successful” and “active” aging paradigms, the ...
Chattopadhyay, Arka(Taylor & Francis Online, 2019-01)
In this essay I extract an ethic from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s concept of “planetarity” in the context of world literature, which highlights the notion of transnational literary circulation. I argue for a planetary ...
Design cognition is a human cognitive ability that is characterized by multi-faceted skills and competencies. This skill requires finding solutions for a vague problem, where the end point is not specified and the ...
The successful aging model marked by an emphasis on the self has dominated the gerontological tradition in a majority of the western industrialized countries. However, this narrative of active, socially engaged and consumer ...
Drawing from a group of older and middle-aged (50 years above) women and men who have re-partnered (includes both marriage and cohabitation) through the assistance of a marriage bureau based in the city of Ahmedabad (Gujarat, ...
This article examines the function of the static body, both with and without speech, in the plays of Samuel Beckett. Zooming in on bodily stasis in Beckett allows us to see how he develops a corporeal discourse of inertness ...
Banerjee, Ruman; Srivastava, Prashant K; Pike, A. W. G.; Petropoulos, George P(MDPI, 2018-08)
The conservation and protection of painted rock shelters is an important issue.Throughout the world, if unprotected, they are vulnerable to vandalism or to industrial activities such as quarrying. This research explores ...