This seems to be promising line...hope prasad will arrange a longer show (than trailor!!) for us.
Is caste social capital or cultuural capital in Kerala? I feel it is cultural capital as socially it is hard to pinn down. But once we enter certain "arenas' it is cristal clear who enjoys cultural capital and who do not.... We might coin a new term ( with apologies to Bourdieu) in the Kerala milieu "Political Capital" On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:58 PM, damodar prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > All of you might have read in todays newspaper the interview with > Thilakkan, ( he also received an national award last week) on the caste , > community issue within the 'secular' film industry. I quote the Hindu > report: "*personal animosity and casteims' had snatched away the national > honours thrice earlier".* Todays IE has a quote of Thilakkan on the same > issue. Thilakan and alos Jagathy ( recenlty in manorama news interview with > Johny Lukose) has raised the same issue of *prevailing casteism, > (communiatrainism) as well as Trivandrum geo-culltural lobbying (now > ernakulam as well), and relational (friendship etc) coteries working within > the industry.* I am not sure whether the industry leaders have given a > patient hearing to Thilakkan and Jagthy. I am also not sure whether our film > critics has dealt this issuse. I may be mistaken regarding the latter. > Some small/ medium/ large attempts have been done in this regard. > > > This dynamics is working in most of the domain. Besides the "caste and > communal interests", the 'gift economy' culture (borudieu)( includes > non-tangible gifts as well) ( in realtions etc) , 'accumulation of 'network > capital' ( geo-cultural and communitarian) are all central to certain > specific zone. Specific zones ( film as well as any "industry" for that > matter) are intended for enculturation of individuals in a specific mould > and route them thorugh a particular stream of engagement ( father figure of > this metthod is none other than Josph Stalin' s cultural thug, Zhadanov) and > constant reproduction of certain values. > > More on this.... > > > damodar > > > > -- Dileep R I thuravoor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
