Contentious connections : social imagination in globalizing South Asia / / edited by Sirpa Tenhunen and Klaus Karttunen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819197403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne, [United Kingdom] : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4438-5834-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (218 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.482
• Soggetti: Globalization - South Asia; Globalization - India
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Combining history, cultural studies, sociology, international politics, and anthropology, this multidisciplinary volume analyzes transnational connections in India and South Asia. The articles explore how politics, gender, religious discourses, regional concepts, and public culture are being re-imagined amidst translocal connections. In theoretical terms, the volume contributes to understandings of the relationship between culture, globalization and social imagination by posing following ques...