WARNING! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

ALARM BELLS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Silent Bells! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

This editorial discusses the articles published and the activities undertaken by The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship during 2021, and calls for research system-wide cultural changes and wider contextual awareness in order to make scholarly communication fairer and up to the challenges of our time.

Giggle Bells! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

This article probes the history of education and current pedagogical practices among Malayali physician-teachers, vaidya-gurus, of Ayurveda in central Kerala. Considering the sources vaidya-gurus cite as the bases of their teaching styles, especially a three-part method known as mukhāmukhaṃ (‘face-to-face’ instruction), I discuss the place, produc…[Read more]

little GREEN men * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

OPPRESS!ON * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

The Irish Sea which separates Great Britain and Ireland has often been written about in terms of divisions, threats, and hazards. Facing each other across that sea, the coast of Wales and Ireland’s eastern seaboard have a more complex story to tell, one characterised by intimate if troubled lines of connection. A place of passage for centuries, t…[Read more]

MMQR * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

BLACK AND WHITE * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Good Mourning, Burma! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC-BY-NC-SA

ABSURDISTAN * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Interview with Thomas Hill on The Library Cafe out of Vassar

Spanish Abstract: Proponemos, en contraposición a la noción de ideología corriente en la crítica cultural y ejemplificada aquí por el libro de Teun A. van Dijk “Ideología: Un enfoque multidisciplinario” (Gedisa, 1999), una noción de ideología más interaccional, más dialógica y más unida a las situaciones efectivas en las que la ideología s…[Read more]

In this article, I hitch the ever-present awareness of disease in my personal life and our shared world today to a pointed and academic reflection on the ways we consume and re-present information about disease from premodern South Asia that’s contained in texts.

This paper uses Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands framework to resignify and recover the marginalized, forgotten sacred feminine and, thereby, South Asian motherlines. The borderlands is conceived of as a new consciousness, an alternative to that which is written in history. It offers a radical synthesis of spiritual healing with anti-oppression wo…[Read more]

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

In this article we place the discussions of automation in post-work imaginaries within and alongside feminist critiques
and understandings of domestic technology. Structured in three parts, the first surveys debates on the future of work,
showing how feminist materialist critiques of technology would lend themselves to an anti-work rather than…[Read more]

The Father of Modern India, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar