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Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
1 207 kr
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Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments - in Africa, America, Fiji and India - frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration.
Passages through India
Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890-1940
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
412 kr
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Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments - in Africa, America, Fiji and India - frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration.
Queer Politics in Times of New Authoritarianisms
Popular Culture in South Asia
Inbunden, Engelska, 2024
2 442 kr
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Queerness remains a central fault line in contemporary South Asia. Colonial-era ‘anti-sodomy’ laws, codified in Article 377 of the penal codes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Article 365 in Sri Lanka, exemplify the shared imperial lineages of the region as also their long postcolonial afterlives. Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. New media technologies have increasingly connected diasporic space with mainland South Asia, globalising queer networks. Yet, these trajectories are necessarily discontinuous.In the last two decades whilst there has been an explosion of LGBTQ+ visibility most notably in South Asian film, television and new media, this visibility has come with mainstream ideological agendas which do not especially represent the diversity of queer lives in South Asia along key identities of caste, class, religion and region. This book seeks to encourage critical thinking by suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this volume take up these questions and offer critical imaginings of sexual politics and its imbrication with popular culture and authoritarian politics within contemporary South Asia.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
730 kr
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Queerness remains a central fault line in contemporary South Asia. Colonial-era ‘anti-sodomy’ laws, codified in Article 377 of the penal codes in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan, or Article 365 in Sri Lanka, exemplify the shared imperial lineages of the region as also their long postcolonial afterlives. Across South Asia and the world, new authoritarianisms have reignited old fault lines around sexuality. New media technologies have increasingly connected diasporic space with mainland South Asia, globalising queer networks. Yet, these trajectories are necessarily discontinuous.In the last two decades whilst there has been an explosion of LGBTQ+ visibility most notably in South Asian film, television and new media, this visibility has come with mainstream ideological agendas which do not especially represent the diversity of queer lives in South Asia along key identities of caste, class, religion and region. This book seeks to encourage critical thinking by suggesting ways in which notions of culture, neoliberalism, nationalism and queerness in the context of new authoritarianisms are disentangled. The chapters in this volume take up these questions and offer critical imaginings of sexual politics and its imbrication with popular culture and authoritarian politics within contemporary South Asia.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture.
1 440 kr
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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the cultural history of Coventry’s global populations.Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet, until now, its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry’s significance across these disciplines. Focusing in particular on Coventry’s Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the concept. The collection demonstrates how global flows of goods and people brought about major transformation to the city’s landscape at the same time as illustrating how social and racialised minorities navigated their marginalisation within local, national and global structures.Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought communities from all over the world to the city and reveals how these communities organised. The contributions explore topics like the hidden histories of Coventry’s South Asian community, a pioneering 1970s community development project, the arrival of Chinese migrants to the city, local oral history archives, and the presence of queer refugees in the city.If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and the cultural significance of diasporic groups in modern British history, Global Coventry is essential reading.