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Sanjay Srivastava - Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City

Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home

Av Sanjay Srivastava

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Beskrivning
Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections - between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example - relate to the topic of masculinity. How do men - elite, subaltern, consumers, 'heads' of the family, members of 'Hindu fundamentalist' organisations, readers of pulp fiction and 'footpath pornography', those who admire the 'strong' political leader - move between these spaces, define them and are defined by them? Urbanisation in India is a vibrant site of an extraordinary cultural, social and economic churn, a context of both the consolidation of masculine identities as well as anxieties regarding their place in the city. The book suggests that sustained and in-depth engagements with specific historical and social contexts avoids tendencies to imagine cities as nodes of comparison that frequently generates universal models of urbanism.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-01-05
  • Mått: 161 x 236 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 410 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 200
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009179867
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Sanjay Srivastava is an anthropologist and British Academy Global Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London. He is also Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Sociology, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR.

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'In Masculinity, Consumerism, and the Post-national Indian City Sanjay the author provides a critically incisive and deeply perceptive analysis of contemporary India's complex urban landscape and the way in which cultural formations of gender, sexuality, and nationalism shape and are shaped by this landscape. As one of the most insightful and rigorously critical sociologists studying India today, Srivastava provides an exceptionally powerful, multi-dimensional analysis of how embodied values, anxieties and contradictions are manifest in the city and how power relations animate post-national masculinity. One of the great strengths of this book is its powerful synthesis of perspectives on gender, politics and rapid urban expansion ranging from formal governance, party politics and economic policy to practices of consumption and everyday life on the streets.' Joseph Alter, University of Pittsburgh

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