Full Description
This book presents a unique rendering of love in South Asia by reading love through the specific lens of dissent. It presents multiple articulations of dissenting love in contemporary South Asia including negotiations with parents to assert choice of partner, migration, elopement, live-in relationships, singlehood, 'new' ideas of masculinities, and embracing diverse sexual identities. It studies these forms of dissent in the context of changing legal discourses, impact of media in everyday life, and transforming social attitudes.
As such, this book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting across diverse religious, ethnic, and gender and sexual identities of South Asia.
Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, history, geography, political science, gender studies, and media studies. It will also appeal to academics who study South Asia with a special focus on love, intimacy, sexuality, marriage, migration, history, politics and media.
Contents
1. Introduction Part I: Familial Transgressions 2. "The Transit Generation": Love, Obligation, and Partnership among Himalayan New Yorkers Sienna Craig and Nawang Gurung 3. Disagree, not Disrupt: Navigating Differences with Parents for Love Mihirini Sirisena Part II: Cultures of Love and Consumption 4. Happily Single in Delhi: Self-love, 'Space', and Leisure Practices Parul Bhandari 5. 'Modern' Men that Love and Hurt Shannon Philip Part III: Normative Love? 6. Between Desire and Domesticity: Live-in Relationships in India. Anuja Agrawal 7. Exiled and Separated: Aspects of Migration for Same-Sex Couples. Ruth Vanita 8. Hāmi Ayaunik ('We are asexuals'): Asexuality on Instagram. Dikshya Karki Part IV: Structures of Love 9. Gated: Non-Criminal Incarceration, Caste, and Elopement in Urban India Sneha Krishnan 10. For the love of the Taj Mahal Sarthak Malhotra
