Social Spaces and the Public Sphere - A Spatial-History of Modernity in Kerala

The volume focuses on how 'modernity' has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading-rooms and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies-caste, class or capital-have been challenged.

List of contents

Foreword by Dilip Menon. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction 2. Studying Space: Public Sphere and the Social Space 3. Making “Public”: Spatiality in Pre-modern to Early Modern Kerala 4. Moving “Out”: Nationalism, Socialism, and New Social Spaces 5. State, Capital, and the Struggle for Control 6. Capitalism, Communalism, and Social Spaces 7. Spatial Contests: Hegemony and Resistance

About the author

S.Harikrishnan is a postdoctoral researcher at Dublin City University, where he completed his PhD in political science. He holds an MA in International Political Economy from King's College London and an MA in Development Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Hari's research interests include the politics of space, modernity, religion, and political culture. His research has been published in Social History, Brill’s Handbook of Hinduism in Europe, and TripleC, and his bylines have appeared on The News Minute, Interactions, Newslaundry, and Kafila. Hari is also a photographer whose works have been exhibited in India, South Africa, and Ireland. He is a founding editor of Ala, a monthly online publication on Kerala. This is his first monograph.

Summary

The volume focuses on how ‘modernity’ has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading-rooms and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies—caste, class or capital—have been challenged.

Product details

• Authors: S. Harikrishnan, Harikrishnan S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2022
• EAN: 9781032118154
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3211815-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Discourse Analysis, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Pragmatism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, India, Literature: history & criticism, Social and cultural history, Western philosophy from c 1800, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -