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Migration, transnationalism, and modernity: Thinking of Kerala’s many cosmopolitanisms
This article claims that the history of modernity in twentieth-century Kerala is inextricably bound up with the histories of migration and transnationalism in the region. It argues that a distinction can be made between the earlier and later phases of the migratory and transnational experience. The...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Cultural Dynamics
2012
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| Online Zugang: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/007981.pdf |
| Zusammenfassung: | This article claims that the history of modernity in twentieth-century Kerala is inextricably bound up with the histories of migration and transnationalism in the region. It argues that a distinction can be made between the earlier and later phases of the migratory and transnational experience. The former allowed for the ‘cosmopolitanism of ideas’ that imagined hitherto-non-existent communities across cultural boundaries and ‘competing cosmopolitanisms’ in the region. Post-independence, however, altered political conditions that impacted migration and transnationalism and produced the ‘cosmopolitanism of duty’, which works with fairly fixed ideas about the national and community/family values and aims for flexibility in negotiating these worlds. These have had distinct effects on modernity in Kerala. |
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| Beschreibung: | P. 127–142 24(2-3) |