Culture and Emotional Economy of Migration

ISBN-13: 9780367733810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 172 str.

Badri Narayan

Opis

This book studies how the act of migration drives the production of popular culture in both homeland and destination. It looks at cultural formations in the process of identity-making of nearly 200 million Indians scattered across the world, from colonial to contemporary times.

Spis treści

List of figures. Prologue to this edition. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Who migrated and why: the bidesia story 2. Bidesia and settlement histories in Suriname 3. Double Migration and the process of readjustment: Hindustanis from Suriname to the Netherlands 4. Bidesia folk culture in the triangle: Bhojpuri region of India, Suriname and the Netherlands 5. Still they are migrating: contemporary migration from Bhojpuri region 6. Migration and cultural productions: documenting history of cultural practices 7. Migration and politics. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Badri Narayan is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Discrimination and Exclusion, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He previously taught at the G.B. Pant Social Science Institute, Allahabad. His research interests range from popular culture, social and anthropological history to Dalit and subaltern issues. Writing in English and Hindi, Narayan is the author of Kanshiram: Leader of the Dalits (2014), The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950 – Present (2011), Fascinating Hindutva: Saffron Politics and Dalit Mobilisation (2009), and Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India (2006). He has been the recipient of the Fulbright Senior Fellowship (2004–5) and the Smuts Fellowship, University of Cambridge (2007).