Light of Knowledge - Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India

Klappentext Francis Cody is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian Institute at the University of Toronto. Zusammenfassung Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Francis Cody
• Edition: Cornell University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 15.11.2013
• EAN: 9780801479182
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7918-2
• Pages: 272
• Thèmes: Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno; Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge; Expertise: Cultures and Techno
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres