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Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes

Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations

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  1. Ananta Kumar Giri

    1. Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

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  • Explores roots, routes, identity, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realization

  • Rethinks ethnicity and identity and linking to a new philosophy, anthropology and literature of global conversations

  • Is a unique trans-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement with identity, social creativity and contemporary dynamics of cultural regeneration

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
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  2. Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: An Introduction and an Invitation

    • Ananta Kumar Giri
    Pages 1-11

  3. Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Self, Social Creativity and Reconstitution of Identities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: Ethnicity, Sociocultural Regeneration, and Planetary Realizations

      • Ananta Kumar Giri
      Pages 15-32

    3. Earth and World: Roots and Routes

      • Fred Dallmayr
      Pages 33-37

    4. First and Second Nature

      • Piet Strydom
      Pages 39-59

    5. Cosmopoesis: Navigating the Strangeness of Planetary Realizations

      • Marcus Bussey
      Pages 61-77

    6. Understanding “Roots and Routes” from a Post-Kantian Tradition of Critique

      • Ivan Marquez
      Pages 79-83

    7. Transversal Communication and Boundaries of Identification

      • Zazie Bowen
      Pages 85-94

    8. Deconstructing and Reconstructing Identity: A Transformational Transcontinental Journey

      • Marta Botta
      Pages 95-107

    9. There Is a Thread That You Follow: Identity, Journey and Destiny

      • Paul Schwartzentruber
      Pages 109-127

  4. Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes: New Possibilities with Philosophy, History, Anthropology and Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Reconciling the Self with the Other: An Existentialist Perspective on the Management of Ethnic Conflicts in Africa

      • Olatunji A. Oyeshille
      Pages 131-159

    3. Migration, Myth, and History: A Cross-Border Case Study

      • Barry H. Rodrigue
      Pages 161-195

    4. From the Danger of the Routes to the Alleged Certainty About the Roots: The Journey to India from the Early Eighteenth to the Late Nineteenth Centuries

      • Detlef Briesen
      Pages 197-215

    5. Indigeneity, Cultural Memory, and Hybrid Identity: Politics of ‘Belonging’ Among Zomi–Chin-Kuki People of India–Myanmar Borderlands

      • N. K. Das
      Pages 217-242

    6. Rethinking Postcolonial Identity: Caught in the Spiral of Violence

      • Peter Heehs
      Pages 243-255

    7. In Search of Territory: Women’s Existential Traverse Through Varied Routes

      • Meera Chakravorty
      Pages 257-273

    8. Making a Commonsense over Roots and Routes in a Time of Emotional Turmoil: The Marwaris and the Nationalist Use of Kunti’s Suffering Self to Construct the Imagery of an Idealized Indian Womanhood

      • Rajsekhar Basu
      Pages 275-305

    9. Crossing the Border: A Postcolonial Discourse of Double Consciousness and Multiple Solidarities with Reference to the Texts Brick Lane and The Mistress of Spices

      • Sulagna Mohanty, Santosh Kumar Biswal
      Pages 307-316
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About this book

The book discusses how we can cross-fertilize relationship between roots and routes with and beyond the logic of closure, monological assertions and violence. The book draws upon multiple philosophical, historical, religious and spiritual traditions of the world to rethink our conceptions and productions of identity as well as our conventional understanding of roots and routes. The book particularly explores the vision and practice of creativity, socio-cultural regeneration and planetary realizations to cultivate new pathways of identity realization and new relationship between identities and differences in our fragile world today. Trans-disciplinary in engagement and trans-civilizational in its dialogical pathway, the book is a unique contribution to our contemporary scholarship about ethnicity, identity, social creativity, cultural regeneration and planetary realizations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India

    Ananta Kumar Giri

About the editor

Ananta Kumar Giri is a Professor at Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India. He is the author and editor of more than two dozen books in English and Odia including Knowledge and Human Liberation (2013), Mahatma Gandhi and Sri Aurobindo (editor), and The Calling of Global Responsibility: New Initiatives in Justice, Dialogues and Planetary Realizations (forthcoming).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cross-Fertilizing Roots and Routes

  • Book Subtitle: Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural Regeneration and Planetary Realizations

  • Editors: Ananta Kumar Giri

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7118-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7117-6Published: 24 January 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7120-6Published: 25 January 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7118-3Published: 23 January 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XLI, 416

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Self and Identity, Modern Philosophy, Asian Culture

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