| Description |
1 online resource (265 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies |
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Routledge new horizons in South Asian studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Contributors -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Making Up Leprosy in India -- 2. 'The Burial of the Dead': Symbolic Space and Identity Among the Muslims of Kolkata -- 3. Conceiving De-kinning: Practices of Pre-birthing in IVF Clinics in India -- 4. The Making and Unmaking of a New Biosocial Subject: Folk Ayurvedic Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in Contemporary India |
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5. Biological Citizenship and Ethnicity: Experiences of Sickle Cell Anaemia in the Tharu Community in Southwestern Nepal -- 6. Family Size and Couple's Will: Evidence from Household Data of India -- 7. Fluctuating Reproductive Practices in the Age of Precariousness: Birth Spacing in Contemporary Nepal -- 8. Patching the Relation of Care: An Essay on Senility, Intimacy, and Old Age Allowance in Urban Sri Lanka -- 9. Health and Ageing in Bhutan: How Can We Build a Sustainable Healthcare System for Senior Citizens? -- 10. Ironies, Transnationality, and Care |
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11. Precarity, Illness, and the Stigmatised Marginality: Living with Arsenicosis in the Bangladeshi Cultural Context -- 12. Living with Bodily Contingency: Miscarriage Among Childless Women in India -- 13. Displaced Death: Grief, Ambiguity, and Practices of Waiting in Post-War Sri Lanka -- 14. Commemorating a Self-immolator: A Case Study of Responses to Self-Immolation in a Tibetan Refugee Society in India -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and death. The contributions to this book include analyses from various regions in South Asia, and topics discussed uncover how people's experiences of life, ageing, illness, and death are entangled with the technology of governance, biomedicine, neoliberal restructuring and other national/international policies. Structured in three parts - governance, technology, and citizenship; well-being and restructuring of the social; waiting, hesitation, and hope as attitudes in facing the precariousness and fundamental uncertainty of life - the book brings to light the ways in which people face and continue to engage with their own and others' lives cautiously, waveringly, but with a sense of hope. A novel contribution to the study of how people struggle or navigate their lives through the conditions of inequity and precariousness in South Asia, this book will be of interest to researchers studying anthropology, sociology, history, medical and development studies of South Asia, as well as to those interested in cultural and social theory"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Social structure -- South Asia
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Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- South Asia
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Citizenship -- South Asia
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Neoliberalism -- South Asia
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Citizenship
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Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects
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Neoliberalism
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Social structure
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South Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sae, Nakamura
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Kenta, Funahashi
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| ISBN |
1000838382 |
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9781000838381 |
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