LEADER 04481nam 2200781 a 450 001 996697882703316 005 20230126205347.0 010 $a9786613589873 010 $a9781400842612 010 $a1400842611 010 $a9781280494642 010 $a1280494646 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400842612 035 $a(CKB)2550000001252207 035 $a(EBL)893067 035 $a(OCoLC)794491916 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000646732 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11940180 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646732 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10589397 035 $a(PQKB)11186917 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893067 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000406939 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37108 035 $a(DE-B1597)447155 035 $a(OCoLC)979685943 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400842612 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893067 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10555043 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL358987 035 $a(dli)HEB34139 035 $a(MiU)MIU01200000000000000000068 035 $a(Perlego)735522 100 $a20111003d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMelancholia of freedom $esocial life in an Indian township in South Africa /$fThomas Blom Hansen 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (373 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780691152967 311 08$a0691152969 311 08$a9780691152950 311 08$a0691152950 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Under the gaze: freedom and race after apartheid -- Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality". 330 $aThe end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state. 606 $aEast Indians$zSouth Africa$zDurban 607 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xRace relations 607 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xSocial conditions 607 $aChatsworth (Durban, South Africa)$xReligion 607 $aDurban (South Africa)$xRace relations 607 $aDurban (South Africa)$xSocial conditions 607 $aDurban (South Africa)$xReligion 615 0$aEast Indians 676 $a305.891/41068455 700 $aHansen$b Thomas Blom$f1958-$0276734 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996697882703316 996 $aMelancholia of freedom$94523646 997 $aUNISA