The making of neoliberal India : nationalism, gender, and the paradoxes of globalization / Rupal Oza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oza, Rupal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change--India.

Social change.

Neoliberalism.

Culture and globalization.

India.

Culture and globalization--India.

Neoliberalism--India.

Nationalism--India.

Nationalism.

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

India--History--1947-.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, [2006]

Summary:

In the 1990s, the forces of globalization exploded in India: a formerly tiny middle class quickly expanded, international trade burgeoned, and privatization of state-controlled industries and sectors proceeded apace. Globalization poses particular challenges to nations and national identity, and nations have responded to the myriad and complex forms and forces of globalization in contradictory ways. In India, nationalism grew in strength and the major Hindu nationalist party took power for the first time in decades.

The Making of Neoliberal India uses the discourses of identity and belonging in 1990s India to explain how the cultures of neoliberalism become dominant. Rupal Oza examines three sites of public national debate that occurred in the '90s: the privatization of television, the 1996 Miss World Pageant (a publicity event meant to sell an image of a new, more liberal and secular India), and the nuclear weapons tests of the late 1990s, which nationalists correlated with masculine virility. Oza argues that globalization has reconstituted the nation spatially, culturally, and economically along neoliberal lines and explores which gendered and sexual identities are privileged over others (and, as a consequence, who belongs in the nation and who does not).

Contents:

Introduction

The new liberal Indian woman and globalization

Cartographic anxiety : television censorship and border controls

Showcasing India : sexuality and nation in the 1996 Miss World Pageant

Nuclear tests and national virility : gender and sexual politics of militarization

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-150) and index.

ISBN:

0415951852

0415951860

OCLC:

62679842

Publisher Number:

9780415951852

9780415951869

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