Dastavezi | the Audio-Visual South Asia

About the Journal

Dastavezi is an international peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, which seeks to reposition film as a central mode of knowing and thinking about South Asia. It is the first peer-reviewed journal connecting scholarly research from and about South Asia with filmic practices.

Dastavezi welcomes submissions that connect academic texts and audio-visual material in creative ways to make a conceptual or empirical contribution to scholarship on South Asia. Contributions can either address existing discussions in new ways through audio-visual productions or introduce new themes that have thus far been overlooked in the field of South Asian studies, and which may be better addressed through an audio-visual approach.

Submit your films and essays to: dastavezi@gmail.com.

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Vol. 7 (2025)

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In this 7th edition of Dastavezi brings together four contributions that use visual methods to examine musical memory, colonial image-making, housing, and urban transformation in South Asia and its diasporas. The issue includes a media-reflexive ethnographic essay on the death of an Afghan tabla player and the conditions of musical remembrance in exile; a historical analysis of photography and early cinema as technologies of colonial knowledge in India; and two visual-ethnographic studies that address homelessness, housing, caste, and gentrification in the cities of Kolkata and Patna.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/dasta.2025.1
Published: 2025-12-31
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