Cultural Citizenship in India: Politics, Power, and Media

ISBN-13: 9780199466313 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 352 str.

Lion Konig

Opis

If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging the feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when citizens are empowered to enter the discourse and modify it. Linking political science and cultural studies to explore the mutually constitutive role of discourse and institutions, this volume argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study.
The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptual relativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.

Recenzje

The meticulously referenced and extensively annotated work makes a significant contribution to an emerging field of scholarship. It not only lays the ground for systematically unravelling an understanding of the social processes through an examination of 'cultural citizenship', but also raises some interesting questions: would 'cultural citizenship' develop into 'transculturality'? It offers a theoretical and methodological framework within which to evaluate how state and non-state powerful actors shape the discursive space, consequently impacting upon cultural citizenship ... König's work thus is an invaluable book for social sciences researchers who seek to explore nuanced understandings of cultural citizenship.

O autorze

Lion König is a DFG Post-Doctoral Fellow at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.