Contentious Connections: Social Imagination in Globalizing South Asia

Klaus Karttunen · Sirpa Tenhunen

mar 2014 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Combining history, cultural studies, sociology, international politics, and anthropology, this multidisciplinary volume analyzes transnational connections in India and South Asia. The articles explore how politics, gender, religious discourses, regional concepts, and public culture are being re-imagined amidst translocal connections. In theoretical terms, the volume contributes to understandings of the relationship between culture, globalization and social imagination by posing following questions: What is the nature of relationships between local worlds and global flows both historically and in contemporary South Asia? What role does the state play amidst global flows? How do power issues and local hierarchies contribute to social imaginaries? And how do translocal flows influence opportunities for individual agency? The volume introduces articles dealing with various aspects and arenas of globalization in South Asia: the economy and the media landscape in India (Derné); cinema (Kumar); global brands (Majumder); religious music and South Asian Islam (Viitamäki); foreign politics (Grekova-Stefanova); politics and gender (Roy); political uses of mobile telephony (Tenhunen); Indian diaspora (Svensson); migration in colonial India (Adapa); and the position of history in classical India (Karttunen).

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Sirpa Tenhunen is a Researcher and the Director of the Nordic Centre in India. In addition to new media, her research interests cover gender, work and politics in India. Her recent books include Introduction to India: Culture, Politics and Development and Means of Awakening: Gender, Politics and Practice in Rural India.

Klaus Karttunen served as the Professor of South Asian and Indoeuropean Studies at the University of Helsinki from 2006 to 2012. He has published a number of studies about Indian history and culture, Sanskrit philology, India in Greek and Roman literature, and the history of Asian studies.