Other book publications

Navayana, Publishing for Social Change

Navayana is India’s first and only publishing house to exclusively focus on the issue of caste from anticaste perspective. Navayana literally means ‘new vehicle’.
Navyana received support for a series of publications. The last to be published was Seeking Begumpura, The Social Vision of Anticaste Intellectuals by Gail Omvedt. read more on the site of Navayana

Indonesian Women Artists, the Curtain Opens

This publication is a uniquely fresh book on modern and contemporary visual arts in Indonesia, covering the works and biographies of over 30 Indonesian women artists, launched coinciding with an exhibition of selected works by participating artists. Read more

Publication 'Conflicts and Tensions', the first volume of The Cultures and Globalization Series

Edited by Helmut Anheier and Yudhishthir Raj Isar. The Committee for Culture and Development of the Prince Claus Fund advised on the development of the publication by initially organising the conference Cultures, Globalization Processes and Development in the Peace Palace in September 2004, and later supporting the editorial board of the series. read more

Mobilizing India

By Tejaswini Niranjana
Subtitle ‘Women, Music, and Migration between India and Trinidad’
In the publication Mobilizing India Niranjana draws on nineteenth-century travel narratives, anthropological and historical studies of Trinidad, Hindi film music, and the lyrics, performance, and reception of chut­ney-soca and calypso songs to argue that perceptions of Indian female sexuality in Trinidad have long been central to the formation and disruption of dominant narratives of nation­hood, modernity, and normative sexuality in India. For this publication Niranjana received support from the Prince Claus Fund. read more

100 + 1 Pakistani Architects and their own Houses is a book about architects in Pakistan who have designed and built their own homes. Illustrated by the Pakistani architect Mukhtar Husain, it covers the work of Ejaz Ahed, Saleem Thairiani, Yasmeen Lari en Najeeb Omar and others. The editors are professor Kausar Bashir and Arif Hasan. Arif Hasan is one of the Prince Claus Award laureates in 2000.

Document is a book series of dossiers formed mainly of interviews and photographs, covering the realms of current Chinese experimental and avant-guard arts, such as visual art, film, literature, the performing arts of theater and dance, as well as the people involved in them. read more

Janaki Nair's book `The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century' has been awarded the New India Book prize by the New India Foundation. The Prince Claus Fund supported Janaki Nair.

The festival catalogue accompanies the photography festival Chobi Mela IV in Bangladesh, which is organised by DRIK in Dhaka.

A biography about the philosopher Kwasi Wiredu from Ghana, written by the Nigerian philosopher Sanya Osha. The book will be published by the winner of the 1997 Prince Claus Award Codesria, in Dakar, Senegal.

 

Cover of Indonesian Women artists, the Curtain Opens

 

Cover of Mobilizing India

Other publications

The Fund also supports book publications about Culture and Development that are not published as part of the Prince Claus Fund Library.

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