Sanjay Srivastava: Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City, Gebunden
Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City
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- Verlag:
- Cambridge University Press, 05/2025
- Einband:
- Gebunden
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009179867
- Artikelnummer:
- 10934586
- Umfang:
- 200 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 410 g
- Maße:
- 236 x 161 mm
- Stärke:
- 18 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 12.5.2025
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections - between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example - relate to the topic of masculinity. How do men - elite, subaltern, consumers, 'heads' of the family, members of 'Hindu fundamentalist' organisations, readers of pulp fiction and 'footpath pornography', those who admire the 'strong' political leader - move between these spaces, define them and are defined by them? Urbanisation in India is a vibrant site of an extraordinary cultural, social and economic churn, a context of both the consolidation of masculine identities as well as anxieties regarding their place in the city. The book suggests that sustained and in-depth engagements with specific historical and social contexts avoids tendencies to imagine cities as nodes of comparison that frequently generates universal models of urbanism.
