Projecting Empowerment: Camera Politics in and beyond Twentieth-Century South Asia
This essay reflects on the ongoing mobilization of the camera as a tool for empowerment in the Global South by revisiting the controversy around Born into Brothels (2004) and its American director’s efforts to teach photography to the children of sex workers in Kolkata. The aesthetic production bei...
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| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing
2022-10-01
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| Series: | Dastavezi |
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| Online Access: | https://hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/dasta/article/view/19114 |