Dissent with Love

Ambiguity, Affect and Transformation in South Asia
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-44437-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

Reihe: Social Movements and Transformative Dissent

This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in relationships, singlehood, ‘new’ ideas of masculinities, and embracing diverse sexual identities. It studies these forms of dissent in the context of changing legal discourses, impact of media in everyday life, and transforming social attitudes. 

As such, this book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting across diverse religious, ethnic, and gender and sexual identities of South Asia.

Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, geography, political science, gender studies, and media studies. It will also appeal to academics who study South Asia with a special focus on love, intimacy, sexuality, marriage, migration, history, politics and media.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhandari, Parul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part I: Familial Transgressions 2. “The Transit Generation”: Love, Obligation, and Partnership among Himalayan New Yorkers Sienna Craig and Nawang Gurung 3. Disagree, not Disrupt: Navigating Differences with Parents for Love Mihirini Sirisena Part II: Cultures of Love and Consumption 4. Happily Single in Delhi: Self-love, ‘Space’, and Leisure Practices Parul Bhandari 5. ‘Modern’ Men that Love and Hurt Shannon Philip Part III: Normative Love?  6.      Between Desire and Domesticity: Live-in Relationships in India. Anuja Agrawal 7. Exiled and Separated: Aspects of Migration for Same-Sex Couples. Ruth Vanita 8. Hami Ayaunik (‘We are asexuals’): Asexuality on Instagram. Dikshya Karki Part IV: Structures of Love 9. Gated: Non-Criminal Incarceration, Caste, and Elopement in Urban India Sneha Krishnan 10. For the love of the Taj Mahal Sarthak Malhotra

Über Autor(innen)

Parul Bhandari is the Director of Studies (Human, Social and Politial Sciences), Bye-fellow, and Associate Tutor at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. She was an Associate Professor of Sociology at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU), India. A sociologist and social anthropologist, Bhandari’s research interests lie in the study of love, marriage, intimacy, gender, family and class (elites and the middle class) in contemporary South Asia. She is the author of Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage (Springer, 2020), and Money, Culture, Class: Elite Women as Modern Subjects, (Routledge, London 2019).