The politics of belonging in contemporary India : anxiety and intimacy / edited by Kaustav Chakraborty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chakraborty, Kaustav, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social integration--India.

Social integration.

Marginality, Social--India.

Marginality, Social.

Belonging (Social psychology)--India.

Belonging (Social psychology).

India--Civilization.

India.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xiii, 262 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomenon, the volume: - Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship and sexuality and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality and communication - Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging - Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties Comprehensive and thought provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women studies, cultural studies, and minority studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part I Intimacy, marginality, and anxiety p. 19

1 Identification, belonging, and the category of Dalit p. 21 / K. Satyanarayana

2 Emotions in the context of caste slavery: exploring the missionary writings on Kerala p. 29 / P. Sanal Mohan

3 Nature and belonging: distance, development, and intimacy p. 46 / R. Umamaheshwari

Part II Rethinking intimacy, contemporarily vis-à-vis the conventional institutions p. 65

4 Intimacy in Tamil kinship p. 67 / Isabelle Clark-Decès

5 Reading queerness: same-sex marriages in India p. 75 / Sayan Bhattacharya

6 Homes as conversions: literalising the metaphor of Ghar Wapsi p. 87 / Arunima Paul

Part III Dissident body and belonging p. 99

7 Anti-caste communitas and outcaste experience: space, body, displacement, and writing p. 101 / Dickens Leonard

8 Disability and intimacy in the making of Madurai Veeran p. 126 / Shilpaa Anand

Part IV Space, vigilance, and getting intimate p. 143

9 The modern-day sex worker: the intimate 'Other' of intimacy and belonging p. 145 / Chandni Mehta

10 Public spaces and private intimacies: the 'Politics of Belonging' in parks p. 167 / Pranta Pratik Patnaik

11 Queer intimacies in the time of new media: when Grindr produces alternative cartographies p. 180 / Silpa Mukherjee

Part V Textual belongings p. 191

12 Intimacy, belonging, and masculinity in Bhalachandra Nemade's novel Kosla (Cocoon) p. 193 / Mangesh Kulkarni

13 Hesitant intimacy: North East Indian English poetry vis-à-vis the Indian nationhood p. 203 / Sarat Kumar Doley

Part VI Techno intimacies p. 217

14 Maternal intimacies online: how Indian mom bloggers reconfigure self, body, family, and community p. 219 / Sucharita Sarkar

15 Routing techno intimacy, risk, anxiety, and the ambient political p. 240 / Geeta Patel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780367273071

0367273071

9781138562943

1138562947

OCLC:

1089905351