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.
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1 Sociology of South Asia: In Waiting for the Revolution |
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Part I State-Led Modernization Projects |
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35 | (116) |
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2 Between Women and the State: Rights Brokers and Capital Accumulation in West Bengal |
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37 | (30) |
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3 Degrees of Freedom: Strategic (Non)engagement in Land Markets |
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67 | (26) |
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4 "(Hindu) Workers of India, Unite!": How Class Politics Shape the Consolidation of Right-Wing Hegemony in India |
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93 | (28) |
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5 Traditional Genders, Modern Sexualities: Struggles over Sexual and Gender Nonconformity in Postcolonial India |
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121 | (30) |
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Part II Diasporic Mediations |
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151 | (82) |
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6 Veiled Sociology: The Epistemologies of Purdah and Two-Boat Ethnography |
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153 | (24) |
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7 Interweaving Afro-Asian Solidarity: A Global Textile Factory Floor in Ethiopia |
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177 | (28) |
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8 "Give In, Cut Your Hair Or It Makes You a Very Strong Person": Diasporic Sikhs, Transnational Racialization, and Embodied Identity |
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205 | (28) |
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Part III Place-Making/Identity-Making |
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233 | (144) |
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9 Of Tigers and Temples: The Jaffna Caste System in Transition During the Sri Lankan Civil War |
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235 | (32) |
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10 Experiencing the City as Workers: The Spatial Practices of Women Beauty and Retail Workers in Karachi, Pakistan |
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267 | (26) |
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11 Caste-ing Space: Mapping the Dynamics of Untouchability in Rural Bihar, India |
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293 | (30) |
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12 Following the Prophet's Sunnah: Class, Piety, and Power in a Pakistani Bazaar |
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323 | (28) |
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13 "Bodybuilding Does Not Need American Certifications": Cultural Entrepreneurship in Times of Globalization in Contemporary Bengal |
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351 | (26) |
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Smitha Radhakrishnan is LuElla LaMer Professor of Womens Studies and 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 Womens, 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) and has published in World Development, Qualitative Sociology, Social Problems, and Gender & Society, among other journals.
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