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Demography and Democracy: Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology
Himani Bannerji
Price
1855.00
ISBN
9788125042921
Language
English
Pages
284
Format
Hardback
Dimensions
140 x 216 mm
Year of Publishing
2011
Territorial Rights
Restricted
Imprint
Orient BlackSwan

Demography and Democracy deals with different aspects of hegemony, nationalism, criteria for citizenship and democracy. In the process this book examines complexities of civil society involving culture, class, politics and the relations between civil society and the state. Nationalism in plural terms, decolonisation, as well as analysis of ideology, including contemporary political ideologies, are the overarching themes of this book. The author explores the complexities of modern-day nationalisms from the perspective of marxist anti-colonial feminism. Focusing on ethnic nationalism and the racialised nature of imperialism of our time, the volume draws on examples from India, Israel, United States and its allies. Cultural political identities of the Hindu right, Zionism and other religious fundamentalisms are discussed in detail.

The author explores the connections between ideology and politics across regional national spaces. She shows the overlapping features between Hindutva in India and Zionism in Israel. This involves an examination of the constitution of cultural/ethnic identities in terms of the construction of the self and ‘the other’. The essays also carry on a sustained analysis of how patriarchy provides a taken-for-granted mediation through which the self and ‘other’ relationships are constituted.

The volume will be useful to students and scholars of sociology, political science, women’s studies and history, as well as those interested in contemporary South Asia.

Himani Banerji is Professor of Sociology, York University, Ontario.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
  1. Making India Hindu and Male: Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India
  2. Demography and Democracy: Reflections on Violence against Women in Genocide or Ethnic Cleansing
  3. Cultural Nationalism and Woman as the Subject of the Nation
  4. Projects of Hegemony: Towards a Critique of Subaltern Studies’ ‘Resolution of the Women’s Question’
  5. Home and the World: Women and Nationalism in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore
  6. Always Towards: Development and Nationalism in Rabindranath Tagore
  7. The Tradition of Sociology and the Sociology of Tradition: The Terms of our Knowledge and the Knowledge Produced
References
Index
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