Indian Transnationalism Gender, Culture, and Identity
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
09.10.2026
Abbildungen
schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Verlag
Taylor and FrancisSeitenzahl
164
Maße (L/B)
23.4/15.6 cm
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-04-130310-7
Indian Transnationalism: Gender, Culture, and Identity delves into the challenges and creative transformations faced by Indians as they forge new lives abroad, offering a fresh and critical perspective on belonging in an interconnected world. The book brings together insights on ethnonational identity, gender roles, performing arts, and music, while examining the organizations that provide diasporic communities with political voice and social support. It explores how digital spaces-such as social media, streaming platforms, and online archives-shape cultural memory, particularly among younger generations. Additionally, it traces the journeys of cultural forms as they travel and adapt abroad, from the fusion music of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to the simplified performances of rituals like Theyyam from Kerala.
What emerges is a nuanced portrait of diasporic life as a continuous negotiation between preservation and change, between belonging here and belonging there. The book reveals how gender influences who speaks for the community, how culture serves as both a resource for connection and a site of conflict, and how identity remains fluid and unsettled.
Written for students and scholars in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, this volume offers a grounded and critical exploration of how globalization is lived, rather than merely theorized.
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