Unsettling India: Affect, Temporality, Transnationality

by Purnima Mankekar

Book Overview

In Unsettling India, Purnima Mankekar offers a new understanding of the affective and temporal dimensions of how India and "Indianness," as objects of knowledge production and mediation, circulate through transnational public cultures. Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in New Delhi and the San Francisco Bay Area, Mankekar tracks the sense of unsettlement experienced by her informants in both places, disrupting binary conceptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822358360
• ISBN13: 9780822358367
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"