[Reader-list] Third Posting

[udayan kumar]

Third Posting

During this phase, I am dealing with some questions
concerning the experience of death. I am, therefore,
now engaging with some of the recent writings on the
theme. Often the experience of death is juxtaposed to
the notion of community. Hence, my study also relies
on this dichotomy; however the major task I’m
undertaking is to deeply scrutinising the interviews
of those who witnessed the incident. (My fieldwork has
been delayed a bit, therefore I can’t hint at anything
new from the second stage of field records). 

Following the lines of some of the most influential
studies [Jean Baudrillar (1993). Symbolic Exchange and
Death. London: Sage; Jean Baudrillar (1983). In The
Shadow of the Silent Majorities. New York: Semiotext
(e); Ulrich Beck (1992). Risk Society: Towards a New
Modernity. London: Sage;   Ulrich Beck (1995).
Ecological Politics in an Age of Risk. Cambridge:
Polity Press; Ulrich Beck (2000). Risk Society
Revisited: Theory, Politics and Research Programmes In
Adam Beck and Van Loon (ed). ‘The Risk Society and
Beyond: Critical Issues for Social Theory’. London:
Sage; P. Bourdieu et al. (1993). The Weight of the
World: Social Suffering in the Contemporary Society.
Stanford: Stanford University Press; Veena Das and et
al. (1998) Kleinman, Arthur and Lock, Margret (eds)
‘Social Suffering’. Delhi: OUP], I’m planning to bring
the aspect of ‘risk’ to the ambit of my study, which
forms part of the second section of the paper. 

When the idea of risk is brought; I’m employing the
metaphor of eclipse in order to lay down a condition
for my narrative. Here, the exact moment of the
incident, is metaphorised as an ecliptic moment.
(Astronomers pay serious attention to other secrets of
cosmic phenomena during the short interval of solar
eclipse). 

Like the way, it is assumed that the whole scheme of
events illuminates deeper secrets of community life.
This, in fact, is the broad silhouette of the second
section of my study. As I already mentioned I will be
able to talk about something specifically in this
direction only by the end of May. Until then I will
keep up-dating you as to where I’m up to. 

Thanks.
Uday
14/03/2006
New Delhi 







	
	
		
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