Social Movements and Transformative Dissent Migrants, Mobile Lives
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A collection of mobile ethnographies from different parts of India, this book seeks to decommission the understanding of mobility and the sedentary bias in analyzing the social and political dynamics engendered through mobility, wherein mobility is associated with disintegration, uncertainty and eventual perishability. In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism. Is it because mobility is a disavowal of a sedentary disposition? Or is it that, as social frontiers, mobile lives disrupt the linear narrative of social evolution and civilization inherent in the idea of settlement? This book engages with the substance of these strains in the lived experiences of mobile populations, in what it means to be recalcitrant and find one's bearings in mobility. Mobility is also transformative as it brings with it sentience, an awareness of the faultline in the system. Drawing on mobile ethnographies from different parts of India - a nomadic community in Kutch, tribal youth in Ranchi, mobile rural youth in Chhattisgarh, the Musahars, an ex-untouchable community in Bihar, migrant labour in Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown, north Indian Muslim migrants and the homeless in Mumbai, tribal plantation workers in Kerala and the Char dwellers in Assam - the book explores the cadence of dissent and what it conveys about the inconstancy of relentless human pursuits, and the human desire for transcendence, wholeness, and unity. The book explores how all ethnographies are inherently mobile, traversing through lives, contexts, and locales to capture the ever-evolving human condition. Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, cultural studies, inequality studies, migration and labour studies. It will be of use to social activists and policymakers as well.
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A collection of mobile ethnographies from different parts of India, this book seeks to decommission the understanding of mobility and the sedentary bias in analyzing the social and political dynamics engendered through mobility, wherein mobility is associated with disintegration, uncertainty and eventual perishability. In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism. Is it because mobility is a disavowal of a sedentary disposition? Or is it that, as social frontiers, mobile lives disrupt the linear narrative of social evolution and civilization inherent in the idea of settlement? This book engages with the substance of these strains in the lived experiences of mobile populations, in what it means to be recalcitrant and find one's bearings in mobility. Mobility is also transformative as it brings with it sentience, an awareness of the faultline in the system. Drawing on mobile ethnographies from different parts of India - a nomadic community in Kutch, tribal youth in Ranchi, mobile rural youth in Chhattisgarh, the Musahars, an ex-untouchable community in Bihar, migrant labour in Delhi during the COVID-19 lockdown, north Indian Muslim migrants and the homeless in Mumbai, tribal plantation workers in Kerala and the Char dwellers in Assam - the book explores the cadence of dissent and what it conveys about the inconstancy of relentless human pursuits, and the human desire for transcendence, wholeness, and unity. The book explores how all ethnographies are inherently mobile, traversing through lives, contexts, and locales to capture the ever-evolving human condition. Part of the Social Movements and Transformative Dissent series, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of sociology, anthropology, social work, cultural studies, inequality studies, migration and labour studies. It will be of use to social activists and policymakers as well.
AmazonPages: 192, Edition: 1, Hardcover, Routledge India
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