Liberalization's Children Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India

Name: Liberalization's Children Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
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ISBN: 9780822345671

ISBN-10: 0822345676

ISBN-13: 9780822345671

Edition: 2010

Authors: Ritty A. Lukose

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Liberalization's Childrenexplores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between "midnight's children," who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and "liberalization's children," who are global in outlook and unapologetically consumerist. Moral panics about beauty pageants and the celebration of St. Valentine's Day reflect ambivalence about the impact of an expanding commodity culture, especially on young women. By simply highlighting the triumph of consumerism, such discourses obscure more than they reveal. Through a careful analysis of "consumer citizenship,"…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.34" wide x 8.86" long x 0.72" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Ania Loomba is Catherine Bryson Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.Ritty Lukose is Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Liberalization's Children-Nation, Generation, and Globalization



Locating Kerala, Between Development and Globalization



Fashioning Gender and Consumption



Romancing the Public



Politics, Privatization, and Citizenship



Education, Caste, and the Secular


Epilogue: Consumer Citizenship in the Era of Globalization


Notes


Bibliography


Index