01534 a2200169 4500999001700000020001800017082002200035245007100057260003000128300001600158504001800174520091000192650008201102700002601184942001201210952014201222 c26259d26259 a9780367424107 a305.5130954bPOL- aPolitics of Belonging in Contemporary IndiabAnxiety and intimacy  bRoutledgec2020aNew York axiii, 262 p aInclude Index aThis book looks at the emerging forms of intimacies in contemporary India. Drawing on rigorous academic research and pop culture phenomena, the book: Brings together themes of nationhood, motherhood, disability, masculinity, ethnicity, kinship, and sexuality, and attempts to understand them within a more complex web of issues related to space, social justice, marginality, and communication; Focuses on the struggles for intimacy by the disabled, queer, Dalit, and other subalterns, as well as people with non-human intimacies, to propose an alternative theory of the politics of belonging; Explores the role of social and new media in understanding and negotiating intimacies and anxieties. Comprehensive and thought-provoking, this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies, sociology, sexuality and gender studies, women’s studies, cultural studies, and minority studies. aSocial psychologyvMarginality, SocialvSocial inclusionvCivilizationzIndia aChakraborty, Kaustav  2ddccBK 00104070aNASSDOCbNASSDOCd2020-07-08eOPg726.35i2020-06-11l0o305.5130954 POL-p51014r2020-07-15 00:00:00v995.00w2020-07-15yBK