Ritty A Lukose

Liberalization's Children

Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography of student life at a university in the South Indian state of Kerala that focuses on the relationship between youth consumer practices and notions of gender, cultural citizenship, and globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822345503
• ISBN-10: 0822345501
• Artikelnr.: 26501604

Autorenporträt

Ritty Lukose is Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Liberalization's Children—Nation, Generation, and
Globalization 1
1. Locating Kerala, Between Development and Globalization 23
2. Fashioning Gender and Consumption 54
3. Romancing the Public 96
4. Politics, Privatization, and Citizenship 132
5. Education, Caste, and the Secular 163
Epilogue. Consumer Citizenship in the Era of Globalization 200
Glossary 207
Notes 211
Bibliography 243
Index 269