Title The Light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / Francis Cody

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Series Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.) Contents Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment Summary Cowinner of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology's Edward Sapir Book Prize Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), one of the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. This rich ethnographic account of highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Print version record Subject Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) SUBJECT Arivoḷi (Organization : Tamil Nadu, India) fast Subject Literacy programs -- India -- Tamil Nadu Literacy -- Political aspects -- India -- Tamil Nadu Society and social sciences Society and social sciences. Sociology and anthropology. Anthropology. Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography Mod Social and cultural anthropology, ethnography. EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. EDUCATION -- Administration -- General. EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General. Literacy -- Political aspects Literacy programs Rural conditions SUBJECT Tamil Nadu (India) -- Rural conditions Subject India -- Tamil Nadu Form Electronic book ISBN 0801469023 9780801469022

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