The Politics of Belonging in Contemporary India - Anxiety and Intimacy (Paperback)

This volume looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, 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's studies, cultural studies, and minority studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2019
First published:	2020
Editors:	Kaustav Chakraborty
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	262
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-27307-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN:	0-367-27307-1
Barcode:	9780367273071

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