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Shameem Black Flexible India (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Flexible IndiaCondition: NewSubtitle: Yoga's Cultural and Political TensionsISBN-10: 023120602XEAN: 9780231206020ISBN: 9780231206020Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 12/19/2023Description: Yoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range of social problems, from reducing rape to curing cancer. But as yoga has gone global, its cultural meanings have spiraled far and wide. In Flexible India, Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.Drawing on her own experience and her readings of political spectacles, yoga murder mysteries, court cases, art installations, and digital media, Black shows how yoga’s imaginative power supports diverse political and cultural ends. Although many cultural practices in today’s India exemplify “culture wars” between liberal and conservative agendas, Flexible India argues that visions of yoga offer a “culture peace” that conceals, without resolving, such tensions. This flexibility allows states, corporations, and individuals to think of themselves as welcoming and tolerant while still, in many cases, supporting practices that make minority populations increasingly vulnerable. However, as Black shows, yoga can also be imagined in ways that offer new tools for critiquing hierarchical structures of power and race, Hindu nationalism, cultural appropriation, and self-help capitalism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Shameem BlackGenre: Literary CriticismTopic: History, Sports & Hobbies, Society & CultureRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Flexible India

Title: Flexible India

Subtitle: Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions

ISBN-10: 023120602X

EAN: 9780231206020

ISBN: 9780231206020

Release Date: 12/19/2023

Release Year: 2023

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Literary Criticism

Topic: Society & Culture

Number of Pages: 304 Pages

Publication Name: Flexible India : Yoga's Cultural and Political Tensions

Language: English

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Item Height: 0.8 in

Publication Year: 2023

Subject: Media Studies, Modern / 21st Century, Yoga

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 18 Oz

Author: Shameem Black

Item Length: 9 in

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Health & Fitness

Item Width: 6 in

Format: Hardcover

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