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Modernization and Effeminization in India

Author : Anna Lindberg
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 9788791114212
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernization and Effeminization in India by : Anna Lindberg

Download or read book Modernization and Effeminization in India written by Anna Lindberg and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Kerala is well known for being one of India's most progressive states, processes of modernization have had an ambiguous impact on women. This innovative study combines archival research with in-depth fieldwork to trace changes since the 1930s in gender relations among low-caste men and women by examining organization of work, trade union activities and ideologies regarding marriage and family life.

Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India

Author : Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history)
Publisher : Primus Books
ISBN 13 : 9789389850017
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India by : Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history)

Download or read book Historicizing Gendered Modernities in India written by Amitava Chatterjee (Assistant professor of history) and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how gender is central to our imagination and understanding of modernity. The essays in this volume unravel the complexities of modernity's relationship to femininity and the cultures of gender construction amidst the diverse manifestations of colonialism and nationalism. The essays cover varied aspects of gender identities, including the private spheres of elite women who expressed their freedom through their subversive, restricted sexuality, thus shaking off the shackles of domination; the debates regarding dress codes for women; the deplorable condition of girls after marriage; legislative battles to achieve the right to divorce; challenges to notions of sports as a masculine activity; the different meanings of modernity for women writers; the implications of print cultures and cinema on women; gendered meanings of peace and partition; women's preferences, perceptions and practices; the politics of resistance; and questions of agency and autonomy.

Men and Masculinities in South India

Author : Caroline Osella
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843313995
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Men and Masculinities in South India written by Caroline Osella and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Men and Masculinities in South India' aims to increase understanding of gender within South Asia and especially South Asian masculinities, a topic whose analysis and ethnographising in the region has had a very sketchy beginning and is ripe for more thorough examination.

Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory

Author : Nissim Mannathukkaren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000422917
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory by : Nissim Mannathukkaren

Download or read book Communism, Subaltern Studies and Postcolonial Theory written by Nissim Mannathukkaren and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thematic history of the communist movement in Kerala, the first major region (in terms of population) in the world to democratically elect a communist government. It analyzes the nature of the transformation brought about by the communist movement in Kerala, and what its implications could be for other postcolonial societies. The volume engages with the key theoretical concepts in postcolonial theory and Subaltern Studies, and contributes to the debate between Marxism and postcolonial theory, especially its recent articulations. The volume presents a fresh empirical engagement with theoretical critiques of Subaltern Studies and postcolonial theory, in the context of their decades-long scholarship in India. It discusses important thematic moments in Kerala’s communist history which include — the processes by which it established its hegemony, its cultural interventions, the institution of land reforms and workers’ rights, and the democratic decentralization project, and, ultimately, communism’s incomplete national-popular and its massive failures with regard to the caste question. A significant contribution to scholarship on democracy and modernity in the Global South, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics, specifically political theory, democracy and political participation, political sociology, development studies, postcolonial theory, Subaltern Studies, Global South Studies, and South Asia Studies.

Violence of Democracy

Author : Ruchi Chaturvedi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478024607
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Violence of Democracy written by Ruchi Chaturvedi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Violence of Democracy Ruchi Chaturvedi tracks the rise of India’s divisive politics through close examination of decades-long confrontations in Kerala between members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and supporters of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive archival research, Chaturvedi investigates the unique character of the conflict between the party left and the Hindu right. This conflict, she shows, defies explanations centering religious, caste, or ideological differences. It offers instead new ways of understanding how quotidian political competition can produce antagonistic majoritarian communities. Rival political parties mobilize practices of disbursing care and aggressive masculinity in their struggle for electoral and popular power, a process intensified by a criminal justice system that reproduces rather than mitigating violence. Chaturvedi traces these dynamics from the late colonial period to the early 2000s, illuminating the broader relationships between democratic life, divisiveness, and majoritarianism.

Depression in Kerala

Author : Claudia Lang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351001345
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Depression in Kerala written by Claudia Lang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines depression as a widely diagnosed and treated common mental disorder in India and offers a significant ethnographic study of the application of a traditional Indian medical system (Ayurveda) to the very modern problem of depression. Based on over a year of fieldwork, it investigates the Ayurvedic response to the burden of depression in the Indian state of Kerala as one of the key processes of the local appropriation or glocalization of depression. More broadly, Lang considers: What happens with the category of depression when it leaves the West and travels to South Asia? How is depression appropriated in a South Asian society characterized by medical pluralism? She explores on the level of ideas, institutions and materialities how depression interacts with and changes local worlds, clinical practice and knowledge and subjectivities. As depression travels from ‘the West’ to South India, its ontology, Lang argues, multiplies and thus leads to what she calls ‘depression multiple’.

Leaving the Land

Author : Dolly Kikon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494420
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Leaving the Land written by Dolly Kikon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows young indigenous migrants from the hills of Northeast India to megacities like Bangalore and Mumbai.

The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology

Author : Richard Fardon
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1473971594
Total Pages : 1556 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology written by Richard Fardon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 1556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two volumes, the SAGE Handbook of Social Anthropology provides the definitive overview of contemporary research in the discipline. It explains the what, where, and how of current and anticipated work in Social Anthropology. With 80 authors, contributing more than 60 chapters, this is the most comprehensive and up-to-date statement of research in Social Anthropology available and the essential point of departure for future projects. The Handbook is divided into four sections: -Part I: Interfaces examines Social Anthropology′s disciplinary connections, from Art and Literature to Politics and Economics, from Linguistics to Biomedicine, from History to Media Studies. -Part II: Places examines place, region, culture, and history, from regional, area studies to a globalized world -Part III: Methods examines issues of method; from archives to war zones, from development projects to art objects, and from ethics to comparison -Part IV: Futures anticipates anthropologies to come: in the Brain Sciences; in post-Development; in the Body and Health; and in new Technologies and Materialities Edited by the leading figures in social anthropology, the Handbook includes a substantive introduction by Richard Fardon, a think piece by Jean and John Comaroff, and a concluding last word on futures by Marilyn Strathern. The authors - each at the leading edge of the discipline - contribute in-depth chapters on both the foundational ideas and the latest research. Comprehensive and detailed, this magisterial Handbook overviews the last 25 years of the social anthropological imagination. It will speak to scholars in Social Anthropology and its many related disciplines.

Privileged Minorities

Author : Sonja Thomas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295743832
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Privileged Minorities written by Sonja Thomas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-11-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores how this community illuminates larger questions of multiple oppressions, privilege and subordination, racialization, and religion and secularism in India. In Privileged Minorities, Thomas examines a wide range of sources, including oral histories, ethnographic interviews, and legislative assembly debates, to interrogate the relationships between religious rights and women’s rights in Kerala. Using an intersectional approach, and US women of color feminist theory, she demonstrates the ways that race, caste, gender, religion, and politics are inextricably intertwined, with power and privilege working in complex and nuanced ways. By attending to the ways in which inequalities within groups shape very different experiences of religious and political movements in feminist and rights-based activism, Thomas lays the groundwork for imagining new feminist solidarities across religions, castes, races, and classes.

Gender, Work and Migration

Author : Megha Amrith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351846213
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Gender, Work and Migration written by Megha Amrith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315225210 While the feminisation of transnational migrant labour is now a firmly ingrained feature of the contemporary global economy, the specific experiences and understandings of labour in a range of gendered sectors of global and regional labour markets still require comparative and ethnographic attention. This book adopts a particular focus on migrants employed in sectors of the economy that are typically regarded as marginal or precarious – domestic work and care work in private homes and institutional settings, cleaning work in hospitals, call centre labour, informal trade – with the goal of understanding the aspirations and mobilities of migrants and their families across generations in relation to questions of gender and labour. Bringing together rich, fieldwork-based case studies on the experiences of migrants from the Philippines, Bolivia, Ecuador, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Mauritius, Brazil and India, among others, who live and work in countries within Europe, Asia, the Middle East and South America, Gender, Work and Migration goes beyond a unique focus on migration to explore the implications of gendered labour patterns for migrants’ empowerment and experiences of social mobility and immobility, their transnational involvement, and wider familial and social relationships.

In Pursuit of the Good Life

Author : Jocelyn Lim Chua
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520281152
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of the Good Life written by Jocelyn Lim Chua and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Note -- Introduction -- PART ONE. The "Problem" of Striving -- 1 Between the Devil and the Deep Sea -- 2 Gazing at the Stars, Aiming for the Treetops -- 3 Tales the Dead Are Made to Tell -- PART TWO. On Living in a Time of Suicide -- 4 Care-full Acts -- 5 Anywhere but Here -- 6 Fit for the Future -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Unruly Figures

Author : Navaneetha Mokkil
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295745568
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Unruly Figures written by Navaneetha Mokkil and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests. The 2014 “Kiss of Love” campaign garnered national attention, sparking controversy as images of activists kissing in public and dragged into police vans flooded the media. In Unruly Figures, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures—particularly the sex worker and the lesbian—are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of queerness in Malayalam films, public discourse on lesbian sexuality, the autobiographical project of sex worker and activist Nalini Jameela, and the memorialization of murdered transgender activist Sweet Maria, showing how various marginalized figures stage their own fractured journeys of resistance in the post-1990s context of globalization. By bringing a substantial body of Malayalam-language literature and media texts on gender, sexuality, and social justice into conversation with current debates around sexuality studies and transnational feminism in Asian and Anglo-American academia, Mokkil reorients the debates on sexuality in India by considering the fraught trajectories of identity and rights.

Proper Islamic Consumption

Author : Johan Fischer
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940322
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book Proper Islamic Consumption written by Johan Fischer and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The West has seen the rise of the organic movement. In the Muslim world, a similar halal movement is rapidly spreading. Malaysia is at the forefront of this new global phenomenon. Examining the powerful linkages between class, consumption, market relations, Islam and the state in contemporary Malaysia, this is the first book to explore how Malaysia's emerging Malay middle class is constituted through consumer practices and Islamic revivalism. By exploring consumption practices in urban Malaysia, this book shows how diverse forms of Malay middle-class consumption (of food, clothing, and cars, for example) are understood, practiced, and contested as a particular mode of modern Islamic practice. It illustrates ways in which the issue of "proper Islamic consumption" for consumers, the marketplace, and the state in contemporary Malaysia evokes a whole range of contradictory Islamic visions, lifestyles, and debates articulating what Islam is or ought to be.

Politics of Precarity

Author : Panchali Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199095531
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Precarity written by Panchali Ray and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics of Precarity presents an analysis of contemporary labour politics that emerges with informalization and privatization of crucial social sectors, and in this case one of the few feminized occupations—the nursing sector. Contrary to common understanding, nursing service is not a homogenous sector, but a deeply splintered one based on historically and socially produced structural inequalities and is rigidly cleaved along the lines of ‘prestigious’ and ‘dirty’ work. The levels of classification in this sector are reflected in and constituted by material realities, such as wages, terms of employment, extent of skills, and possession of qualifications. Drawing on three years of fieldwork in hospitals and nursing homes in the city of Kolkata, the book is an ethnographic study that analyses how hierarchies at workplace intersect with social identities to produce a differentiated workforce. The book interrogates the politics of distinction and distancing that produces a feminine workforce divided by class, caste, and sexualities to examine the various contestations among ranks of workers who deploy modernity, morality, and gendered norms as strategies to secure marginal gains at the expense of others.

Anthropologies of Class

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087414
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Anthropologies of Class written by James G. Carrier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of class and inequality from an anthropological perspective, bringing together an international team of researchers.

Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia

Author : Mona Lilja
Publisher : NIAS Press
ISBN 13 : 8776940209
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Book Synopsis Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia by : Mona Lilja

Download or read book Power, Resistance and Women Politicians in Cambodia written by Mona Lilja and published by NIAS Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where there are few women politicians, Cambodia is still noticeable as a country where strong cultural and societal forces act to subjugate women and limit their political opportunities. However, in their everyday life, Cambodian women do try to improve their situation and increase their political power, not least via manifold strategies of resistance. This book focuses on Cambodian female politicians and the strategies they deploy in their attempts to destabilize the cultural boundaries and hierarchies that restrain them. In particular, the book focuses on how women use discourses and identities as means of resistance, a concept only recently of wide interest among scholars studying power. The value of this book is thus twofold: not only does it give a unique insight into the political struggles of Cambodian women but also offers new insights to studies of power.

Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique 1945-1975

Author : Jeanne Penvenne
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847011284
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Women, Migration & the Cashew Economy in Southern Mozambique 1945-1975 written by Jeanne Penvenne and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the lives and livelihoods of the female cashew shellers in Mozambique's capital in the colonial era, during which the industry grew to be a major export, and relates how the women played a fundamental, but previously underappreciated, role in the colony's economy.