Sociology of South Asia
Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries
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This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which to rethink sociological practice. Recognizing local and global influences at their specific sites, the contributing authors highlight the historical ravages of colonialism and imperialism, modernization projects of the postcolonial era, and the kaleidoscopic ways in which gender, caste, class, and sexuality structure everyday life under neoliberalism today. The sociology of South Asia centers the voices and experiences of those marginalized by local and global systems of power in order to produce knowledge that advances interconnected projects of liberation.
Smitha Radhakrishnan is Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College, USA. She is the author of Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class (2011) and Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India (2022), both from Duke University Press.
Gowri Vijayakumar is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brandeis University, USA. She is author of At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis (Stanford University Press, 2021).
This edited volume moves the study of South Asia to the center of sociological analysis, bringing together recent scholarship across sites in India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Pakistan, as well as in Ethiopia and the USA. This book situates the project of decolonizing the discipline within a rich transnational intellectual legacy and reveals how South Asia offers a uniquely generative site from which to rethink sociological practice. Recognizing local and global influences at their specific sites, the contributing authors highlight the historical ravages of colonialism and imperialism, modernization projects of the postcolonial era, and the kaleidoscopic ways in which gender, caste, class, and sexuality structure everyday life under neoliberalism today. The sociology of South Asia centers the voices and experiences of those marginalized by local and global systems of power in order to produce knowledge that advances interconnected projects of liberation.
Draws on original empirical work while speaking to theoretical questions around politics, labor, and culture Engages seriously with gender, class, and their intersections via a postcolonial and transnational perspective Brings together scholarship on the sociology of South Asia to chart novel theoretical paradigms
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“This feels like the book I have long been waiting for!! Thoughtful, provocative and timely, this much-needed volume opens up new conceptual possibilities both for the study of South Asia and for American Sociology. It provides a nuanced critique of the parochial lens of American Sociology even as it offers powerful examples of how the study of South Asia can profoundly alter our understanding of key sociological concepts of tradition/modernity, class, nationalism and neoliberalism. It also makes evident that the study of colonialism is necessary to understand the contemporary social world, thus leading the way to creating a sociology that is both historically grounded and global in its possibilities.” (Raka Ray, University of California, Berkeley)
“The cutting-edge scholarship in this volume revitalises classic themes in sociology by injecting a fresh post-colonial sensibility into richly grounded research. By critically engaging with disciplinary legacies and going beyond them, it illuminates how keywords like identity, inequality, intersectionality, and agency can be reimagined through a commitment to locally-anchored global subjects.” (Amita Baviskar, Ashoka University (Sonipat))
“This call to arms offers readers a powerful rethinking of sociology on South Asian—its questions, theoretical frameworks, answers, and audiences. But Radhakrishnan and Vijayakumar's contributions go much farther. They challenge all sociologists interested in the world—which is everyone of us—to fundamentally rethink what we do. A much needed, provocative reframing of what sociology can and should be.” (Peggy Levitt, Wellesley College and Harvard University)
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