2012, ISBN: 9788173048869

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New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan, 2012. The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are remarkable new phenomena in India. These trends are related… Mehr…

New Delhi, India: Orient BlackSwan, 2012. The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are remarkable new phenomena in India. These trends are related to extensive overseas migration, the transnational dispersal of families amidst global labor markets and the rise of a new Indian middle class. Sarah Lamb's moving and insightful account—based on nearly fifteen years of fieldwork in India and the United States, with a focus on Kolkata—takes us inside India’s emerging old age homes and into the households of elders living alone in India and with US-settled children abroad. Lamb also investigates recent state efforts to legally mandate parental care in India, and scrutinizes the ways senior Indian Americans make use of and critically reflect upon forms of state-supported elder care prevalent in the United States.Aging and the Indian Diaspora provides an engrossing and vivid portrayal of the innovative and ambivalent ways older Indians and their communities are reworking aging as they confront—both embracing and challenging—processes they associate with modern, Western and global living. Lamb's study probes debates and cultural assumptions in both India and the United States regarding how best to age; the proper social-moral relationship among individuals, genders, families, the market, and the state; and ways of finding meaning in the human life course. Printed Pages: 356.. Hardcover. New/New., Orient BlackSwan, 2012, Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1998. 6" wide by 9" tall. New condition. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Flat spine. No creases. Pages are fresh and crisp, obviously never read. Chapter notes. Index. From the rear cover: "In THE OTHER HENRY JAMES, John Carlos Rowe offers a vision of Henry James as a social critic whose later works can be read as rich with homo-erotic suggestiveness. Drawing from recent work in queer and feminist theory, Rowe argues that the most fruitful approach to James today is one that ignores the elitist portrait of the formalist master in favor of the writer as a vulnerable critic of his own confused and repressive historical moment. Rowe traces a particular development in James's work, showing how in his early writings James criticized women's rights, same-sex relations, and other social and political trends now identified with modern culture; how he ambivalently explored these aspects of modernity in his writings of the 1880s; and, later, how he increasingly identified with such modernity in his heretofore largely ignored or marginally treated fiction of the 1890s. Building on recent scholarship that has shown James to be more anxious about gender roles, more conflicted, and more marginal a figure than previously thought, Rowe argues that James -- through his treatment of women, children, and gays -- indicts the values and conventions of the bourgeoisie. He shows how James confronts social changes in gender roles, sexual preferences, national affiliations, and racial and ethnic identifications in such important novels as THE AMERICAN, THE TRAGIC MUSE, WHAT MAISIE KNEW, and IN THE CAGE, and in such neglected short fiction as THE LAST OF THE VALERII, THE DEATH OF THE LION, and THE MIDDLE YEARS.". First Edition. Soft Cover. Original pictorial wraps. xv, 238pp. ., Duke University Press, 1998, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Hardcover. New. How does one explain the historical processes through which Abstract ideas such as the idea of a nation become a Motivation for mass mobilization, Political reorganization and even Violence on a Large scale? This book seeks to find answers to this question in the context of India`s modern History during its long eventful twentieth century. Starting from the early Stage of Gandhian mass mobilization after the First World War and subsequently proceeding to more recent examples of Hindu-nationalism, the book analyses `spectacular polities` as a distinct form of political communication. It thereby seeks to understand not only how the idea of a nation turned into the most powerful political idea in modern India, but also how political communication and mobilization work in an extremely Heterogeneous and fragmented society. As Indian Society becomes more and more involved with Globalization and internationalization, many seemingly self-evident paradigms of India`s self-understanding such as its national identity, democracy, or Secularism are once again subject to intense political controversies and social confrontations. Finally, the example of religiously motivated Terrorism illustrates the profound ambivalence of performative Politics between inclusive, even participatory Effects on the one Hand and destabilizing, even destructive Consequences of those political discourses, which emphasize their form as much as their content. Printed Pages: 264., Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9788173048869

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Hardcover. New. How does one explain the historical processes through which Abstract ideas such as the idea of a nation become a Motivation for … Mehr…

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Hardcover. New. How does one explain the historical processes through which Abstract ideas such as the idea of a nation become a Motivation for mass mobilization, Political reorganization and even Violence on a Large scale? This book seeks to find answers to this question in the context of India`s modern History during its long eventful twentieth century. Starting from the early Stage of Gandhian mass mobilization after the First World War and subsequently proceeding to more recent examples of Hindu-nationalism, the book analyses `spectacular polities` as a distinct form of political communication. It thereby seeks to understand not only how the idea of a nation turned into the most powerful political idea in modern India, but also how political communication and mobilization work in an extremely Heterogeneous and fragmented society. As Indian Society becomes more and more involved with Globalization and internationalization, many seemingly self-evident paradigms of India`s self-understanding such as its national identity, democracy, or Secularism are once again subject to intense political controversies and social confrontations. Finally, the example of religiously motivated Terrorism illustrates the profound ambivalence of performative Politics between inclusive, even participatory Effects on the one Hand and destabilizing, even destructive Consequences of those political discourses, which emphasize their form as much as their content. Printed Pages: 264. Spectacular Politics: Performative Nation- building and Religion in Modern IndiaClemens Six9788173048869, Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010<

2010, ISBN: 9788173048869

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Hardcover. New. How does one explain the historical processes through which Abstract ideas such as the idea of a nation become a Motivation … Mehr…

Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010. Hardcover. New. How does one explain the historical processes through which Abstract ideas such as the idea of a nation become a Motivation for mass mobilization, Political reorganization and even Violence on a Large scale? This book seeks to find answers to this question in the context of India`s modern History during its long eventful twentieth century. Starting from the early Stage of Gandhian mass mobilization after the First World War and subsequently proceeding to more recent examples of Hindu-nationalism, the book analyses `spectacular polities` as a distinct form of political communication. It thereby seeks to understand not only how the idea of a nation turned into the most powerful political idea in modern India, but also how political communication and mobilization work in an extremely Heterogeneous and fragmented society. As Indian Society becomes more and more involved with Globalization and internationalization, many seemingly self-evident paradigms of India`s self-understanding such as its national identity, democracy, or Secularism are once again subject to intense political controversies and social confrontations. Finally, the example of religiously motivated Terrorism illustrates the profound ambivalence of performative Politics between inclusive, even participatory Effects on the one Hand and destabilizing, even destructive Consequences of those political discourses, which emphasize their form as much as their content. Printed Pages: 264., Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2010<