Masculinity, consumerism and the post-national Indian city: streets, neighbourhoods, home

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, '...

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1. Verfasser: Srivastava, Sanjay 1960- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung: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
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Introduction: Masculinity, Modernity, Urbanity -- Nationalism, Masculinity and the City -- Dislocated Masculinities and the Unofficial City -- Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and -- 'Indian Traditions' in the Contemporary Hindi 'Detective' Novel -- Fragmentary Pleasures: Masculinity, Urban Spaces and -- the Commodity Politics of 'Religious Fundamentalists' -- Technotopias: Masculinity, Women, the City and the Post-national Condition -- Conclusion: Masculine Body Politics
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 186 Seiten)
ISBN:9781009179874
DOI:10.1017/9781009179874

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