Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India Anxiety and intimacy
Contributor(s): Chakraborty, Kaustav.
Publisher: New York Routledge 2020Description: xiii, 262 p.ISBN: 9780367424107.Subject(s): Social psychology -- Marginality, Social -- Social inclusion -- Civilization -- IndiaDDC classification: 305.5130954 Summary: This book looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the book: Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and sexuality, and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality, and communication; Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, Dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies, to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging; Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and minority studies.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This book looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the book: Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and sexuality, and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality, and communication; Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, Dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies, to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging; Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and minority studies.
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