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121104
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2013.
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A new type of civil society movement led by the urban middle class has grown with increasing economic liberalization, one that aims to eliminate 'filth', including garbage, slums, and street stalls, from the city's public space and to create a 'world-class' city. These movements have been critically analyzed as a phenomenon representing a new India aspiring to progress based on consumerism and pleasure at the cost of the poor. 'Fight the Filth', organized by a Mumbai English-language tabloid, is one campaign of this type. This paper aims to provide a new perspective to understand these controversial movements by focusing on the forms and aesthetics of this campaign. It illustrates the demands on the middle class in public culture, both to catch up with global India's new consumer aesthetics and to be proper citizens responsible for the society at large, and considers how the middle class is coping with this.
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117599
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2012.
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Based on anthropological fieldwork, this article confirms that arguments about the decline of Mumbai's cosmopolitanism through the rise of regionalism and hindutva have failed to consider the idea of 'cosmopolitanism' as understood and used by local people, specifically local merchants. Reconsideration of cosmopolitanism in relation to regionalism focuses on the morality of business, as expressed by merchants in Navi Mumbai, is examined through two case scenarios. The Marathisation of signboards led by the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and participation in the Ganesh Festival show that their morality of business enables Navi Mumbai's merchants to adjust to various kinds of challenging phenomena, including those seen as regionalism. The same business morality, then, skillfully re-constructs the foundations of cosmopolitanism as a polyphonic folk term.
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178517
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Fictions that account for nature-culture have always been crucial for the anthropology of kinship, but the significance of fiction has increased through the extension of new technologies and global transactions. This paper examines the dynamics of householding relations in Mumbai through the lens of fiction. A contemporary middle-class household in India is a rich field of study, as it is filled with the memories of family retailers, the responsibilities and expectations of family members as well as of domestic workers and their families, and the uncertain relations of everyday life. As recent literature on domestic work and servitude suggests, these complex relations also reflect historical inequalities. By focusing on paid domestic work, this paper not only examines external inequalities but inquires into the generation and potential transformation of households and of kinship itself. It then illustrates how domestic work with entangled social imaginaries creates a new image of family, one which does not simply reflect a shift from the feudal to the modern, or from joint family to nuclear family, but rearticulates relations by evoking various fictions.
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178513
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This special issue brings together emerging studies on kinship in South Asia and explores the idea of kinship as ‘fiction’ through ethnographic analysis of intimate relationships. Anthropology had long considered kinship as ‘natural’ or ‘biological’, thereby rendering other relations as ‘real’ or ‘fictive’. However, the recent ever-expanding scope of the ‘new kinship studies’, through the mapping of socio-technological changes, including the development of new reproductive technologies, the expansion of a diverse marriage system, and the global reconfiguration of care work, has brought a new dynamism to the discipline. Drawing both on traditional South Asian kinship studies and on more recent theories in anthropology, care work, medicine and science and technology studies, Kinship as Fiction offers insights on how ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ are related, translated, and regenerate each other by changing their meanings and forms. Fiction plays an important role in shaping reality, by making emerging worlds comprehensible, and helping us to imagine relations differently. This special issue investigates how particular ‘fictions’ are narrated and enacted within the constraints of reality, and how reality is, in turn, generated by fiction in the context of kin and other intimate relationships.
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