Emotional Cities and Classed Emotions

On Emotions and Social Class in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-05920-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Urban Futures

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural spectres of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represented, created, enacted, and regulated through the inhabitants’ lives and lifestyles. Exploring this, the chapters in the volume bring together and analyse the myriad forms of intersections within and between urban centres in India and Indian diaspora, as well as ‘classed’ emotions. The authors embark on scholarly inquiries to highlight the complex and fluid dynamics through which urban spaces and the class of its inhabitants question, attribute, influence, and perpetuate the diverse emotional states and responses, and vice versa – they examine the ways in which emotive subjectivities, relations, experiences and practices, question and influence multiple urban formations, power dynamics and spaces. They reveal how emotional and urban landscapes are not only represented but are also affected by the social class of the denizens.

Part of the Urban Futures series, the volume will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of urban studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, urban planning, urban policy, public policy and architecture. It will also be of interest to the professional architects, urban designers, social geographers and policymakers.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Choudhury, Ahana

Romanowicz, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: At the Intersections of Emotions, Social Class and Urbanity 2. Lived Emotions and Class Spaces: Care and ‘Marriages at Old Age’ in Kolkata 3. Living in Dog Years: An Autoethnography of a Multi-species Household 4. Becoming ‘Serious Men’: Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town 5. Care and Class: Exploring Employer-employee Relations in Mothering 6. Class, Religion and Caregiving: Interspecies Emotions and Interactions in a New Delhi Neighbourhood 7. Of Old Bodies and New Homes: Filial Care among Transnational Indian Families 8. Delhi Night by Car: Middle Class, Emotions, and Appropriating Urban Spaces

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Romanowicz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

Ahana Choudhury is Doctoral Scholar at the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, India.