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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453347003321

Autore

Kapur Jyotsna

Titolo

The politics of time and youth in brand India : bargaining with capital / / Jyotsna Kapur [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2013

ISBN

0-85728-113-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 148 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Anthem South Asian Studies

Disciplina

306.30954

Soggetti

Youth - India

Branding (Marketing) - India

Neoliberalism - India

India Social conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Brand India's biggest sale : the cultural politics and political economy of India's global generation -- Arrested development and the making of a neoliberal state -- For some dreams a lifetime is not enough : the rasa aesthetic and the everyday in neoliberalism -- An arranged love marriage : India's neoliberal turn and the Bollywood wedding culture industry -- Ek haseenah thi (there once was a maiden) : the vanishing middle class and other neoliberal thrills -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses - across cinema, television, print and consumer culture - and argues that these anxieties concerning time are symptomatic of the struggle between labor and capital. Drawing on critical theory, cinema and media studies and Marxist-feminist concepts, Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India toward neoliberalism has been accompanied by a new emphasis on youth and a preoccupation with change, novelty and the acceleration of time, with profound consequences for conceptions of time, youth and the relations between generations.