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This article explores the politics of place-making in the context of 48°C Public.Art.Ecology, a public art festival that took place in and around Delhi in 2008. The site-specific works were exhibited at eight locations, were made by more than twenty national and international artists, and were accessed through the new metro transport system. In this analysis, the exhibition sites and artworks are understood as "in-between" places that function as zones of contestation and complex spatial relations. This approach integrates urban history with present-day strategies of urban planning and invites new forms of engagement with and in public space in order to reflect environmental change and urban transformation. Of key relevance for this article is how contemporary art in India "goes public." More specifically the study examines how the art and ecology festival activated notions of public space as something imbued with different histories of access, imagining, and attachment. The main themes of climate change and art in public are thus weighed and interpreted differently by the festival's diverse participants (e.g., the Goethe-Institut as organizer and international or local artists). Through a discussion of several public artworks, this article will use the concepts of emplacement and excavation as a means to approach different layers and aspects of urban ecologies and of temporary space use, arguing that a public art festival can also be exclusive.

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This paper examines the gap between the wedding and the beauty or fitness industries, underlining how closely they are connected by means of 'marketing the body′ and how much pressure is put on aspiring candidates in terms of their performance. The beautiful and the fit body of women as well as men have moved centre-stage in the feel-good ideology promoted in neoliberal urban India. The wedding ritual is a field of discourse through which a host of media and gender concepts are entangled in an ambivalent way: at once empowering and domesticating.

This article analyses the ways in which new audiovisual technologies may organise and challenge patterns of seeing for purposes of political mobilisation and ideological indoctrination. The context is that of the Hindu Right, with particular reference to the Ayodhya controversy. Focusing on God manifests Himself, a video produced by Jain Studios in New Delhi (1989/1990), the complex question of representation is discussed with reference to two key principles that inform the audiovisual rhetoric of Hindu nationalism. First, the video demonstrates that the Hindutva politics of representation is based on the technique of 'intervisuality', whereby meaning emerges from the dynamic interplay of aesthetic and symbolic spaces and social practices. Second, Hindutva rhetoric relies on the use of 'wish-images', through which imaginary 'think-spaces' are opened that enable its ideologues to generate ideas of a crisis-ridden imagined community of Hindu nationals against the backdrop of a Golden Age and a utopian future. This includes the stereotypical fixation of the 'Muslim Other'. The article investigates the role of popular culture and religio-political practices as well as stylistic aspects of docu-drama, montage and special effects.

Many societies are experiencing growing longevity and population ageing simultaneously with increasing urbanization and mobilities. Such fundamental demographic and structural shifts have been reflected in a multitude of narratives and strategies how to "age well" in view of rapidly transforming environments, mobilities of people and changing social relations. This volume explores the transcultural dimensions of ageing and care through close-up ethnographic and literary case studies in South Asia, as well as one European case study from a South Asian researcher's view. By critically engaging with Eurocentric aspects in ageing studies, the eleven contributions of this volume highlight how perspectives from the Global South shed light on transcultural entanglements and connectivities of experiences of care and ageing. - Neben zunehmender Urbanisierung und Mobilität erleben viele Gesellschaften gleichzeitig steigende Lebenserwartungen und ein Älterwerden ihrer Gesamtbevölkerung. Solch grundlegende demografische und strukturelle Veränderungen spiegeln sich in einer Vielzahl von Narrativen und Strategien wider, wie ein "gutes Alter(n)" angesichts sich rapide transformierender Umgebungen, der Mobilität von Menschen und sich wandelnder sozialer Beziehungen aussehen kann. Dieser Band erforscht die transkulturellen Dimensionen von Alter(n) und Care in ethnografischen und literarischen Fallstudien sowohl in Südasien als auch in einer südasiatischen Studie in Europa. Die elf Beiträge dieses Bandes setzen sich kritisch mit eurozentrischen Aspekten in der Alter(n)sforschung auseinander und untersuchen, wie Perspektiven aus dem Globalen Süden transkulturelle Verflechtungen und Konnektivitäten von Care- und Alter(n)serfahrungen aufzeigen können.