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Informationen zum Autor Ritty Lukose is Associate Professor in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. Klappentext Ethnography of student life at a university in the South Indian state of Kerala that focuses on the relationship between youth consumer practices and notions of gender, cultural citizenship, and globalization. Zusammenfassung Explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Through an analysis of 'consumer citizenship'! this book argues that the breakdown of the Nehruvian vision connects with struggles over the meanings of public life and the cultural politics of belonging. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Liberalization's Children—Nation, Generation, and Globalization 1 1. Locating Kerala, Between Development and Globalization 23 2. Fashioning Gender and Consumption 54 3. Romancing the Public 96 4. Politics, Privatization, and Citizenship 132 5. Education, Caste, and the Secular 163 Epilogue. Consumer Citizenship in the Era of Globalization 200 Glossary 207 Notes 211 Bibliography 243 Index 269
