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1 online resource |
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List of Photographs; Preface; Introduction: Sentimental Sovereignties: Hurt and the Political Unconscious; 1. How Far Can You Go?; 2. What, If the Hurt Is 'Real'? Psyche, Neighbor, and Intimate Violence; 3. Between Speech and Silence; 4. The Harm in Hate Speech Laws: Examining the Origins of Hate Speech Legislation in India; 5. The Alchemy of Hate and Hurt; 6. Strangers in the Land: Mapping the Muslim Hurt; 7. Commemorating Hurt: Memorializing Operation Bluestar; 8. The Reascription of Hurt: When Abu Gharaib Came to Kashmir |
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9. Anathema and Anachronism: A Contemporary Utilization of Ambedkar's Critique of Gandhism10. The Cartoon Controversy: Crafty Politicos, Impatient Pedagogues; 11. Writing Humiliation, Righting Humiliation: Marking the Dalit Moment in the History of India's Untouchables and Beyond; 12. Sense and Sentimentality: A Political Fable; 13. The Return of Daya; 14. Of JAB and Hurt: Exploring Spaces of Resistance withinthe University; 15. Sexuality, Mediation, Commodification: The Businessof Representation; 16. The Erotics of Law, Scandal, and Technology |
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17. The Engendering of Hurt: A Feminist Analysis of Hurt Sentiments18. On the Question of Free Speech and Censorship; 19. The Lines of Control; About the Editors and Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
The creation of a ready vocabulary of hurt sentiments in the political and social space, the publicity it generates for a potential claim to victimhood and trauma and how it can become an excuse for repressive regimes of state-vigilantism as well as strategies of terror and hate speech |
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Sentimentalism -- Political aspects -- India
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Hate speech -- India
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Freedom of speech -- India
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Censorship -- India
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Censorship
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Freedom of speech
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Hate speech
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ramdev, Rina, editor.
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Nambiar, Sandhya Devesan, editor.
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Bhattacharya, Debaditya, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789351503057 |
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9351503054 |
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