Masculinity, Consumerismand the Post-national Indian City

By Sanjay Srivastava

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections - between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example - relate to the topic of masculinity. How do men - elite, subaltern, consumers, 'heads' of the family, members of 'Hindu fundamentalist' organisations, readers of pulp fiction and 'footpath pornography', those who admire the 'strong' political leader - move between these spaces, define them and are defined by them? Urbanisation in India is a vibrant site of an extraordinary cultural, social and economic churn, a context of both the consolidation of masculine identities as well as anxieties regarding their place in the city. The book suggests that sustained and in-depth engagements with specific historical and social contexts avoids tendencies to imagine cities as nodes of comparison that frequently generates universal models of urbanism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009179861
• ISBN13: 9781009179867
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"