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Singing about Disaster : How Oral Tradition Serves or Does Not Serve Governmentalities
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Korom, Frank J. |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Building on Michel Foucault’s notion of gouvernementalité, which he developed during the later years of his life, from approximately 1977 until his death in 1984, I wish to explore some strategies that a certain group of people in India use to cope with being governed as well as those used to subvert the mentality of governance.1 Governmentality, the English equivalent of Foucault’s French term, is here defined as the strategies utilized to render a given society governable.2 This essay will explore how the vernacular bardic tradition of narrative picture painting has been co-opted and used by the state to convey ideological positions when local disasters occurred in the state of West Bengal, India. The theme of counter-hegemonic discourse will also be addressed by demonstrating how the bards in question provide their own running commentaries on tragic events that quite often go against the officially sanctioned positions of local governmental agencies. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are also often complicit in this process, but their involvement is not always constructive, a subject that I have addressed elsewhere.3 Examples will be drawn from flood and earthquake relief as well as from communal disharmony and political assassinations. |
| Starting Page | 131 |
| Ending Page | 150 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ic.nanzan-u.ac.jp/JINRUIKEN/publication/pdf/nenpo2015/07_Korom.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://rci.nanzan-u.ac.jp/jinruiken/publication/item/nenpo5-08%20Korom.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
