Sociology of South Asia : postcolonial legacies, global imaginaries / Smitha Radhakrishnan, Gowri Vijayakumar, editors.
Radhakrishnan, Smitha, 1978- editor.; Vijayakumar, Gowri, editor.
2022
HN670.3.A8
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Title Sociology of South Asia : postcolonial legacies, global imaginaries / Smitha Radhakrishnan, Gowri Vijayakumar, editors.
ISBN 9783030970307 (electronic bk.)
3030970302 (electronic bk.)
9783030970291
3030970299
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright ©2022
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xv, 382 pages) : color illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7 doi
Call Number HN670.3.A8
Dewey Decimal Classification 301.0954
Summary This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which to rethink sociological practice. Recognizing local and global influences at their specific sites, the contributing authors highlight the historical ravages of colonialism and imperialism, modernization projects of the postcolonial era, and the kaleidoscopic ways in which gender, caste, class, and sexuality structure everyday life under neoliberalism today. The sociology of South Asia centers the voices and experiences of those marginalized by local and global systems of power in order to produce knowledge that advances interconnected projects of liberation. Smitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA. She is the author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class (2011) and Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (2022), both from Duke University Press. Gowri Vijayakumar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, USA. She is author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2021).
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