Masculinity, Consumerism and the Post-National Indian City: Streets, Neighbourhoods, Home

ISBN-13: 9781009179867 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

SANJAY SRIVASTAVA

Opis

Masculine cultures define urban cultures and are defined by them. A multidisciplinary analysis that explores urbanism, masculine anxieties and gender relations.

Recenzje

'Reflecting his long-term engagement with India's metropolitan modernities, Srivastava's monograph explores from multiple-and at times, unexpected-perspectives the making and re-making of masculine subjectivities in the context of the fast-changing urban environment of New Delhi and its sprawling peripheries. Here, the materiality of urban spaces is both a stage upon which masculinities are evoked and performed, and the 'structuring structure' for their unfolding. On the strength of fascinating ethnographic case studies and vignettes, the author introduces novel analytics-expressed by the notions of post-national condition and moral consumption-to capture the emergence of political subjectivities, economic practices and aesthetics which have undergirded the rise of aggressive Hindutva politics within different urban social bodies, as well as the (re)gendering and (re)caste-ing of (private and public) urban spaces, often leading to violent assertions of (upper-caste/middle-class) masculinities. This book makes compelling reading and sets an exciting new agenda for understanding contemporary Indian urbanism.' Filippo Osella, University of Sussex

Spis treści

List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Masculinity, Modernity, Urbanity; 2. Nationalism, Masculinity and the City; 3. Dislocated Masculinities and the Unofficial City; 4. Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and 'Indian Traditions' in the Contemporary Hindi 'Detective' Novel; 5. Fragmentary Pleasures: Masculinity, Urban Spaces and the Commodity Politics of 'Religious Fundamentalists'; 6. Technotopias: Masculinity, Women, the City and the Post-national Condition; 7. Conclusion: Masculine Body Politics; Bibliography; Index.