Full Description
This title was first published in 2003. The authors of the essays in this collection, all internationally recognised refugee scholars and practitioners, look at the controversial "hot" topic of refugee rights. They consider whether, 50 years after its agreement, the Refugees' Convention can provide an adequate framework for protection. In particular, the authors address: the effect of globalization upon the human rights of asylum seekers and refugees; the efficacy of the Convention as an instrument of international law; the role of the UNHCR; whether NGOs are effective instruments for change; and nationality and citizenship issues. They also consider alternatives and options for solutions to the global refugee problem.
Contents
Foreword by Ira Bhaskar (Professor (retd) of Cinema Studies at the School of Arts and Aesthetics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India) 1. Introduction Regioning Sound from South Asia Vebhuti Duggal (Assistant Professor in Film Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi) and Radha Kapuria (Assistant Professor in South Asian History, Durham University), I. Aural Signs of the Region 2. One Transnation under a Groove: 'Chaal' and the Modern Punjabi Soundscape Gibb Schreffler (Associate Professor of Music at Pomona College, California), 3. Sound and Politics of Classical Music in West Punjab G. Ali Shair (Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Warwick) 4. Mixing the legends-Changing Representations of Nostalgia in Diasporic Punjabi remix culture Julia Szivak (Assistant Lecturer, Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Budapest), II. Soundscapes of the Punjab 5. Trinjan Audiotopias: Complaint, Desire, and the Bawdy in Punjabi Giddha Performance Practices Ranbir K. Johal (Lecturer, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver) and Kiran K. Sunar (Assistant Professor in Punjabi Language, Literature, and Culture at the University of British Columbia) 6. Folkloric Poetic Traditions and Gender Relations: An Ethnomusicological Study of Sithnian as a Celebratory Resistance in the Punjab Sumera Saleem (Assistant Professor of Literature, University of Sargodha), 7. Mapping Punjab Sounds: Two popular Songs about Agriculture and Pottery Sakoon Singh (Assistant Professor of English, DAV College, Panjab University, Chandigarh) 8. Decoding Loudness: The Punjabi Soundscape in Bollywood Shikha Jhingan (Associate Professor in Film Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi), III. Mediating Regional Sound 9. Modernity, Modality, and Meaning: Technological Mediation of ?abad K?rtan at the Golden Temple James Kirit Singh (PhD in Ethnomusicology, SOAS, University of London) 10. Identity and affect: Exploring technology and the sonic in Dalit Music in Punjab Radhika Kumar (Professor in Political Science, Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi) 11. "Love From India": YouTube Qaww?l? as Affective Solidarity in India-Pakistan Relations Thomas Graves (PhD in Ethnomusicology, Durham University), Afterword: Coda by Virinder Kalra (Professor in Sociology, University of Warwick), Acknowledgments, Index.
