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This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural
narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The
collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial,
political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to
terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection
examines South Asian American identities to understand culture,
policy making, and the implicit gendered racialization,
sexualization, and socio-economic classification of minority
identities within the discourse of globalization. The essays
included here relocate the discourse of race and cultural studies
to an examination of transnational labor diasporas, reopen debate
on critical constructions of U.S. racial and cultural formations,
and question the reconfiguration of gendered and sexualized
discourses of the South Asian diaspora within the context of
national security and terrorism. This book provides a multifaceted
account of South Asian racialization and belonging by drawing from
disciplines across the humanities and the social sciences. The
scholars included here employ methods of ethnographic studies as
well as literary, culture, film, and feminist analysis to examine a
wide range of South Asian cultural sites: novels, short stories,
cultural texts, documentaries, and sports. The rich intellectual,
theoretical, methodological, and narrative tapestry of South Asians
that emerges from this inquiry enables us to trace new patterns of
South Asian cultural consumption post-9/11 as well as expand
notions and histories of "terror." This volume makes an important
contribution to renewing scholarship in the key areas of
representations of race, labor, diaspora, class, and culture while
implicating that there needs to be a simultaneous and critical
dialogue on the scope and reconnections within postcolonial
studies.
Environmental Sustainability, Growth Trajectory and Gender focuses
on three major issues affecting developing economies: environmental
sustainability, growth trajectory and gender. The social, economic
and environmental consequences of climate change and loss of
essential ecosystems are becoming increasingly apparent. Within the
global community, the challenges of sustainable development and
gender equality are growing in importance. The knowledge and
collective action of women would improve productivity, boost
conservation of ecosystems and enhance economic growth in
developing countries. Environmental Sustainability, Growth
Trajectory and Gender provides a wealth of information for academic
researchers, postgraduate students, and faculties of different
disciplines, and will lead to increased awareness, policies and
actions that will enhance gender equality and provide full
enjoyment of sustainable development.
This book offers the first substantial critical examination of men
and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian
literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to
analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by
critical historical events, events which have redrawn maps and
remapped or unmapped bodies with different effects. These include
colonialism, anti-colonialism, state formations, civil wars,
religious conflicts, and migration. Political crisis functions as a
framing device to offer nuances and clarifications to the assumed
visibility of male bodies and male activities during political
crisis. The focus on masculinities in historical moments of crisis
divests masculinity of its naturalization and calls for a
heterogeneous conceptualization of the everyday practices and
experiences of 'being a man.' Written by scholars from a variety of
theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, and drawing
on a range of written and visual texts, this book contributes to
this recent rethinking of South Asian literary and cultural history
by engaging masculinity as a historicized category of analysis that
accommodates an understanding of history as differentiated
encounters among bodies, cultures, and nations. This book was
originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and
Culture.
Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all
of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top
priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development
Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental
human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous,
and sustainable world. Gender Inequality and its Implications on
Education and Health explains the different implications of gender
inequality and finds solutions to our most pressing issues. The
authors of these collected studies show that though in various
contexts around the globe, girls and women are discouraged and
prevented from receiving quality education, proper health care,
women empowerment and social justice, if this exclusion is
eliminated it produces many additional socio-economic gains that
benefit entire societies. Focusing largely on India to explore
firstly the implications of gender inequality on education and
health and then gender inequality and its implications to other
SDGs, the chapters extend globally to analyse countries from Asia,
Australia, Africa, and Europe. Raising awareness among stakeholders
and institutions to recognise the importance of gender inequality
throughout the world and its various implications – especially on
education and health – Gender Inequality and its Implications on
Education and Health provides strategies to achieve gender
equality.
This collection of essays interrogates literary and cultural
narratives in the contexts of the incidents following 9/11. The
collected essays underscore the new and (re)emerging racial,
political, and socio-cultural discourse on identity related to
terrorism and identity politics. Specifically, the collection
examines South Asian American identities to understand culture,
policy making, and the implicit gendered racialization,
sexualization, and socio-economic classification of minority
identities within the discourse of globalization. The essays
included here relocate the discourse of race and cultural studies
to an examination of transnational labor diasporas, reopen debate
on critical constructions of U.S. racial and cultural formations,
and question the reconfiguration of gendered and sexualized
discourses of the South Asian diaspora within the context of
national security and terrorism. This book provides a multifaceted
account of South Asian racialization and belonging by drawing from
disciplines across the humanities and the social sciences. The
scholars included here employ methods of ethnographic studies as
well as literary, culture, film, and feminist analysis to examine a
wide range of South Asian cultural sites: novels, short stories,
cultural texts, documentaries, and sports. The rich intellectual,
theoretical, methodological, and narrative tapestry of South Asians
that emerges from this inquiry enables us to trace new patterns of
South Asian cultural consumption post-9/11 as well as expand
notions and histories of "terror." This volume makes an important
contribution to renewing scholarship in the key areas of
representations of race, labor, diaspora, class, and culture while
implicating that there needs to be a simultaneous and critical
dialogue on the scope and reconnections within postcolonial
studies.
This book offers the first substantial critical examination of men
and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian
literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to
analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by
critical historical events, events which have redrawn maps and
remapped or unmapped bodies with different effects. These include
colonialism, anti-colonialism, state formations, civil wars,
religious conflicts, and migration. Political crisis functions as a
framing device to offer nuances and clarifications to the assumed
visibility of male bodies and male activities during political
crisis. The focus on masculinities in historical moments of crisis
divests masculinity of its naturalization and calls for a
heterogeneous conceptualization of the everyday practices and
experiences of 'being a man.' Written by scholars from a variety of
theoretical perspectives and disciplinary approaches, and drawing
on a range of written and visual texts, this book contributes to
this recent rethinking of South Asian literary and cultural history
by engaging masculinity as a historicized category of analysis that
accommodates an understanding of history as differentiated
encounters among bodies, cultures, and nations. This book was
originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and
Culture.
On June 23, 1985, the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killed 329
people, most of them Canadians. Today this pivotal event in
Canada's history is hazily remembered, yet certain interests have
shaped how the tragedy is woven into public memory, and even
exploited to advance a pernicious national narrative. Remembering
Air India insists that we "remember Air India otherwise." This
collection investigates the Air India bombing and its implications
for current debates about racism, terrorism, and citizenship.
Drawing together academic analysis, testimony, visual arts, and
creative writing, this innovative volume tenders a new public
record of the bombing, one that shows how important creative
responses are for deepening our understanding of the event and its
aftermath. Contributions by: Cassel Busse, Chandrima Chakraborty,
Amber Dean, Rita Kaur Dhamoon, Angela Failler, Teresa Hubel, Suvir
Kaul, Elan Marchinko, Eisha Marjara, Bharati Mukherjee, Lata Pada,
Uma Parameswaran, Sherene H. Razack, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Maya
Seshia, Karen Sharma, Deon Venter, Padma Viswanathan
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