Cultural Citizenship in India

Politics, Power, and Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belongingthe feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when citizens are empowered to enter the discourse and modify it. Linking political science and cultural studies to explore the mutually constitutive role of discourse and institutions, this volume argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptual relativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-08-04
Mått:149 x 224 x 30 mm
Vikt:468 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:OUP India
ISBN:9780199466313

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Lion König is a DFG Post-Doctoral Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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A generative and thought-provoking work, Cultural citizenship in India analyses the key concepts of citizenship, censorship and the media. Moving beyond the legalistic understanding of citizenship to incorporate time, cultural memory and space, König presents a cogent and challenging range of arguments, and explores the constructed character of national narrative and the relativity of surrounding categories constantly being negotiated and re-negotiated. In investigating citizenship from a cultural vantage point, the book brings forth the complexities of belonging and alienation in a society.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Culture and Citizenship - Mapping the Field of Enquiry; 1. Towards a New Paradigm: Bridging Political - Science and Cultural Studies; 2. Cultural Flow: A Conceptual Exploration; 3. From Citizenship to 'Cultural Citizenship': - The Genealogy of a Concept; 4. Censorship in India: Power in and through - Discourse; 5. The Interplay of Mass andNon-Mass Media in India: - Rival Visions and Competing Voices; Conclusion: Counter-flow and Transculturality - Broadening the Paradigm; Appendix I National Unity and Emotional Integration of the; People: Selected DocumentaryFilms of the Films Division; (194961); Appendix II Ek Alag Chitra Katha (2009): Text; Translation; Appendix III Survey Questions: The Media, Censorship, and; Citizenship in India; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author