In Unsettling India, Purnima 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. Based on over a
decade of ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi and the San Francisco
Bay Area, Mankekar tracks the sense of unsettlement experienced by
her informants in both places, disrupting binary conceptions of
homeland and diaspora, and the national and transnational. She
examines Bollywood films, Hindi TV shows, advertisements, and such
commodities as Indian groceries as interconnected nodes in the
circulation of transnational public cultures that continually
reconfigure affective connections to India and what it means to be
Indian, both within the country and outside. Drawing on media and
cultural studies, feminist anthropology, and Asian/Asian American
studies, this book deploys unsettlement as an analytic to trace
modes of belonging and not-belonging.
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