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Dissent with Love

Ambiguity, Affect and Transformation in South Asia

Parul Bhandari editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:30th Aug '24

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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.

"A wonderfully nuanced exploration of practices and understandings of love in contemporary India between transgression and conformity, beyond tired binaries of arranged vs love marriages, indeed beyond marriage writ large – a delightful read!"

Raphael Susewind, Associate Professor, London School of Economics, UK.

"This book is a timely contribution to the treatment of love in non-Western societies as a complex and possibly paradoxical concept. A must-read for cultural scholars, sociologists and anyone interested in studies of affect, society, and culture in South Asia."

Fritzi-Marie Titzmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

ISBN: 9781032444376

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 535g

190 pages