Mankekar Unsettling India

Affect, Temporality, Transnationality
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7583-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and “Indianness,” as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate through transnational public cultures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mankekar, Purnima

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Unsettlement 1

2. Moving Images: Reconceptualizing Indianness in Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge 39

3. Affective Objects: India Shopping in the San Francisco Bay Area 71

4. Transnational Hindi Television and the Unsettlement of Indianness 108

5. Global India and the Production of Moral Subjects 144

6. Aspirational India: Impersonation, Mobility, and Emplacement 188

Coda. Unsettling Nations 229

Notes 243

References 267

Notes 291

Über Autor(innen)

Purnima Mankekar is Professor in the Departments of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Screening Culture, Viewing Politics: An Ethnography of Television, Womanhood, and Nation in Postcolonial India and coeditor of Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia, both also published by Duke University Press.