Synthesis, characterization and performance studies of polysulfone and polysulfone/polymer-grafted bentonite based ultrafiltration membranes for the efficient separation of oil field oily wastewater

Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society? In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (land worship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author’s own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.

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Optimal synthesis of high fouling-resistant PVC-based ultrafiltration membranes with tunable surface pore size distribution and ultralow water contact angle for the treatment of oily wastewater

Separation and Purification Technology ◽

10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117829 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 257 ◽

pp. 117829

Author(s):

Tausif Ahmad ◽

Chandan Guria ◽

Ajay Mandal

Keyword(s):

Contact Angle ◽

Pore Size Distribution ◽

Pore Size ◽

Size Distribution ◽

Water Contact Angle ◽

Optimal Synthesis ◽

Oily Wastewater ◽

Ultrafiltration Membranes ◽

Water Contact

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Cultural History, Ritual and Performance: George L. Mosse in Context

Journal of Contemporary History ◽

10.1177/0022009420940033 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 002200942094003

Author(s):

Peter Burke

Keyword(s):

Political Culture ◽

Early Modern ◽

Cultural History ◽

Performance Studies ◽

Early Modern Europe ◽

History Of ◽

Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽

Modern Europe ◽

And Performance ◽

Cultural Turn

George L. Mosse took a ‘cultural turn’ in the latter part of his career, but still early enough to make a pioneering contribution to the study of political culture and in particular what he called political ‘liturgy’, including marches, processions, and practices of commemoration. He adapted to the study of nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the approach to the history of ritual developed by historians of medieval and early modern Europe, among them his friend Ernst Kantorowicz. More recently, the concept of ritual, whether religious or secular, has been criticized by some cultural historians on the grounds that it implies a fixed ‘script’ in situations that were actually marked by fluidity and improvisation. In this respect cultural historians have been part of a wider trend that includes sociologists and anthropologists as well as theatre scholars and has been institutionalized as Performance Studies. Some recent studies of contemporary nationalism in Tanzania, Venezuela and elsewhere have adopted this perspective, emphasizing that the same performance may have different meanings for different sections of the audience. It is only to be regretted that Mosse did not live long enough to respond to these studies and that their authors seem unaware of his work.

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