Author : Jyotsna Kapur
Release : 2014-12-01
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 530/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India by : Jyotsna Kapur
Download or read book The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India written by Jyotsna Kapur. This book was released on 2014-12-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the heightened time-consciousness that has emerged since the 1990s in popular Indian discourses – across cinema, television, print and consumer culture – and argues that these anxieties concerning time are symptomatic of the struggle between labor and capital. Drawing on critical theory, cinema and media studies and Marxist-feminist concepts, Kapur shows how the recent political-economic shift in India toward neoliberalism has been accompanied by a new emphasis on youth and a preoccupation with change, novelty and the acceleration of time, with profound consequences for conceptions of time, youth and the relations between generations.