Sarai Reader 01:
The Public Domain

This inaugural volume in Sarai’s reader series explores the layered meanings of the Public Domain through interwoven dialogues, essays, and FAQs. It opens with email exchanges that challenge conventional notions of publicness—moving from physical spaces like bazaars and streets to digital commons and free software culture. Drawing on historical, legal, and vernacular understandings, the text traces publicness as mutable, contested, and embedded in everyday life to explore discourses on identity, anonymity, and access.

Grounding its analysis in urban South Asian contexts while looping in global currents, the collection asks: What defines publicness when space, identity, and technology are in flux?

Post date 2001
In SARAI READERS