Liberalizations Children: Gender Youth And Consumer Citizenship In Globalizing India

Liberalization's Children explains how youth and gender have become crucial sites for contested cultural politics of globalization in India, Popular discourses draw a contrast between 'midnight's children' , who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism, and 'liberalization's children' , who are global in outlook and unapologetically. Through a careful analysis of consumer citizenship, Ritty A. Lukose argues that the breakdown of the Nehrivian vision connects with ongoing struggles over the meanings of public life and cultural politics of belonging.(Size; 23 x 15 cms.), ISBN:9788125040071 xiii+284 Yr. of Pub.2010 Paper Back