Sociology of South Asia (eBook)

Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries

Smitha Radhakrishnan, Gowri Vijayakumar (Herausgeber)

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2022 | 1st ed. 2022
XV, 382 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-97030-7 (ISBN)

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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 LuElla LaMer Professor of Women's 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 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) and has published in World Development, Qualitative Sociology, Social Problems, and Gender & Society, among other journals. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: XV, 382 p. 9 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Caste System • Diaspora • Empirical Studies • ethnography • global sociology • India • Pakistan • Social Anthropology • Sociological Methods • Sociology of Development • South Asian Studies • Sri Lanka
• ISBN-10: 3-030-97030-2 / 3030970302
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-97030-7 / 9783030970307