Overview
- Draws on original empirical work while speaking to theoretical questions around politics, labor, and culture
- Engages seriously with gender, class, and their intersections via a postcolonial and transnational perspective
- Brings together scholarship on the sociology of South Asia to chart novel theoretical paradigms
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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State-Led Modernization Projects
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Diasporic Mediations
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Place-Making/Identity-Making
Reviews
“The cutting-edge scholarship in this volume revitalises classic themes in sociology by injecting a fresh post-colonial sensibility into richly grounded research. By critically engaging with disciplinary legacies and going beyond them, it illuminates how keywords like identity, inequality, intersectionality, and agency can be reimagined through a commitment to locally-anchored global subjects.” (Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University (Sonipat))
“This call to arms offers readers a powerful rethinking of sociology on South Asian—its questions, theoretical frameworks, answers, and audiences. But Radhakrishnan and Vijayakumar's contributions go much farther. They challenge all sociologists interested in the world—which is everyone of us—to fundamentally rethink what we do. A much needed, provocative reframing of what sociology can and should be.” (Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sociology of South Asia
Book Subtitle: Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries
Editors: Smitha Radhakrishnan, Gowri Vijayakumar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97030-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97029-1Published: 03 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-97032-1Published: 04 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-97030-7Published: 02 June 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 382
Number of Illustrations: 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology of Work, Area Studies, Regional Development