This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking luxury Indian fashion from its production in village craft workshops via upmarket design studios to fashion soirees, Kuldova investigates the Indian luxury fashion market's dependence on the production of thousands of artisans all over India, revealing a complex system of hierarchies and exploitation.
In recent years, contemporary Indian design has dismissed the influence of the West and has focused on the opulent heritage luxury of the...
This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic. Tracking...
This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka. Arguing for the priority of materiality in any analysis of contemporary ideology, the authors explore urban construction projects, special economic zones, fashion ramps, films, archaeological excavations, and various queer spaces. In the process, they reveal how diverse co-existing utopian visions are entangled with local politics and global capital, and show how these utopian visions are at once driven by visions of excess and...
This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of Ind...
This edited collection offers in-depth essays on outlaw motorcycle clubs and street gangs. The essays read the relationship of these groups to the media, law enforcement and society through the lens of their strategies of `scheming legality' and `resisting criminalization'.
This edited collection offers in-depth essays on outlaw motorcycle clubs and street gangs. The essays read the relationship of these groups to the med...
