Overview

If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belongingthe feeling of being part of that nation - can only arise when citizens are empowered to enter the discourse and modify it. Linking political science and cultural studies to explore the mutually constitutive role of discourse and institutions, this volume argues that citizenship is an ongoing and evolving discursive project. Further, it studies the role of culture and different media in the process of citizen-making by taking postcolonial India as its case study. The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptual relativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.

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Author:   Lion König (DFG Post-Doctoral Fellow, DFG Post-Doctoral Fellow, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.468kg
ISBN:  

9780199466313

ISBN 10:   0199466319
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   December 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Culture and Citizenship - Mapping the Field of Enquiry; 1. Towards a New Paradigm: Bridging Political - Science and Cultural Studies; 2. Cultural Flow: A Conceptual Exploration; 3. From Citizenship to 'Cultural Citizenship': - The Genealogy of a Concept; 4. Censorship in India: Power in and through - Discourse; 5. The Interplay of Mass and Non-Mass Media in India: - Rival Visions and Competing Voices; Conclusion: Counter-flow and Transculturality - Broadening the Paradigm; Appendix I National Unity and Emotional Integration of the; People: Selected Documentary Films of the Films Division; (194961); Appendix II Ek Alag Chitra Katha (2009): Text; Translation; Appendix III Survey Questions: The Media, Censorship, and; Citizenship in India; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

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This book is valuable scholarship for both political scientists and cultural studies scholars whose work engages with Indian politics, social movements and mass media. Cultural studies scholars of media, in particular, will appreciate Konig's stress on qualitative analyses of media production, texts and audiences that provide deeper historical and socio-political understanding than quantitative methods such as survey research do. The case studies that Konig provides in the context of cultural citizenship are illuminating in their study of power and identity formation, and highly relevant for scholars of India in the current era.This monograph demonstrates that interdisciplinary studies, when done well, can be cohesive and comprehensive in both their particularity and their generality. * Pallavi Rao, Journal of South Asian Studies * A generative and thought-provoking work, Cultural citizenship in India analyses the key concepts of citizenship, censorship and the media. Moving beyond the legalistic understanding of citizenship to incorporate time, cultural memory and space, Konig presents a cogent and challenging range of arguments, and explores the constructed character of national narrative and the relativity of surrounding categories constantly being negotiated and re-negotiated. In investigating citizenship from a cultural vantage point, the book brings forth the complexities of belonging and alienation in a society. * Ananya Sharma, Contemporary South Asia *

This book is valuable scholarship for both political scientists and cultural studies scholars whose work engages with Indian politics, social movements and mass media. Cultural studies scholars of media, in particular, will appreciate Koenig's stress on qualitative analyses of media production, texts and audiences that provide deeper historical and socio-political understanding than quantitative methods such as survey research do. The case studies that Koenig provides in the context of cultural citizenship are illuminating in their study of power and identity formation, and highly relevant for scholars of India in the current era.This monograph demonstrates that interdisciplinary studies, when done well, can be cohesive and comprehensive in both their particularity and their generality. * Pallavi Rao, Journal of South Asian Studies * A generative and thought-provoking work, Cultural citizenship in India analyses the key concepts of citizenship, censorship and the media. Moving beyond the legalistic understanding of citizenship to incorporate time, cultural memory and space, Koenig presents a cogent and challenging range of arguments, and explores the constructed character of national narrative and the relativity of surrounding categories constantly being negotiated and re-negotiated. In investigating citizenship from a cultural vantage point, the book brings forth the complexities of belonging and alienation in a society. * Ananya Sharma, Contemporary South Asia *

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Lion König is a DFG Post-Doctoral Fellow at St. Antonys College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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