Has India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s led to a heightened awareness of time and its passing, an intense preoccupation with youth, and anxieties over the relations between generations? 'The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India' discusses the politics of time that have emerged in popular discourses across cinema, television, print and consumer culture, arguing that contests over conceptions of time are, in fact, sites of battle between labour and capital.
Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India is accompanied by a new emphasis on youth and a...
Has India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s led to a heightened awareness of time and its passing, an intense preoccupation with youth, and ...
Has India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s led to a heightened awareness of time and its passing, an intense preoccupation with youth, and anxieties over the relations between generations? 'The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India' discusses the politics of time that have emerged in popular discourses across cinema, television, print and consumer culture, arguing that contests over conceptions of time are, in fact, sites of battle between labour and capital.
Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India is accompanied by a new emphasis on youth and a...
Has India's shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s led to a heightened awareness of time and its passing, an intense preoccupation with youth, and ...
In this important study, Muhammad Moj explores the Deobandi sect within Islam and its relationship to Pakistani society in an innovative way. The Deoband Madrassah Movement (DMM) has largely been studied as a political and religious reform movement, but this book interprets it rather as a counterculture, drawing on the counterculture theory of Milton Yinger.
Using analyses of Deobandi journals and interviews with madrassahs and college students, this book comprehends the DMM from a broader perspective to discover the reasons behind its clash with the mainstream society in which it...
In this important study, Muhammad Moj explores the Deobandi sect within Islam and its relationship to Pakistani society in an innovative way. The D...