Bhopal's Dual Legacy in Images
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Datum obhajoby
2024-06-11
Fakulta
Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Filmová a televizní fakulta
Katedra
Katedra fotografie
Typ práce
Diplomová práce
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Podnázev
Abstrakt
The thesis locates itself in between two primary archives of Bhopal, a city in central India. The first archive is that of the princely state that existed in colonial India, governed by Nawab Begums (Muslim Women rulers) and the second, more contemporary and arguably more relevant archive of the infamous Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Both these archives in juxtaposition to each other, work as opposing binaries in the civil imagination. The idea of the city swings from a romantic by-gone era of the Begums to the contemporary occlusion of the disaster archive. This shape-shifting narrative of the city when examined through their imperially informed genesis, dissolves these binaries and helps represent a localized, post-colonial spatialization of its visual economy.
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Klíčová slova
fotografové, archivy, indická fotografie, fotografické sbírky, postkolonialismus, technické havárie, únik nebezpečných látek, Bhópál (Indie), Rai, Raghu, 1942-