Kindred publics: the modernity of kin fetishism in western India

Talwalker, Clare

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“…19 The market‐inflected revival of the bhasha literary domain as well as the regional‐language news media points to growing assertive positions of regional‐language media and their interaction with discourses around “the global local.” Bhasha speaks to the specificities of the current social–political context of a second wave of revival of regional‐language news markets (after what Robin Jeffrey termed the “vernacular news revolution”). At the same time, it acknowledges the sedimented meanings and distinct modes of address, marked by a sociality that is “ambivalent about the exuberant globalizing market place and its forms of public culture, and [whose members] are self‐consciously removed from this, and even occasionally indulge in imagining they are constituted outside it or prior to it” (Talwalker 2009:86). Bhasha does not denote a realm severed from the larger ethos of market centrality.…”

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News media and contention over “the local” in urban India

Udupa

2012

American Ethnologist

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Exploring the highly competitive bilingual news field in urban India, I illustrate how localization of news content has led to conflictual discourses around who should constitute “the local” and for what end. Mediatized contests over “the local” frame urban politics along linguistic and cultural divides, articulated through populist challenges to neoliberal media discourses of “the global local.” In turning a critical eye to these mediatized contests, I extend the recent emphasis on the need to “ground” globalization studies and explore the concrete ways in which globalization imprints itself on local spaces. I argue that local and global formations are embedded in the dynamics of news fields in ways that elude generalized claims advanced by pessimists of cultural homogeneity as well as by optimists of local resistance.

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News media and contention over “the local” in urban India

Udupa

2012

American Ethnologist

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“…In socio‐economic development and sociolinguistic literature, elites often are ignored or erased because they are not seen as needing help ‘developing’ economically (Asian Development Bank 2010) or sociolinguistically (Brass 2009), and they are intellectually and emotionally distanced from the majority population through their English fluency and westernized ideals (Talwalker 2009; Trudell 2010) and, hence, are not assumed to be representative of national changes in language practices. Indeed, sociolinguistics has largely followed the tenets that change comes from below and that elites’ language practices represent a historic precursor to modern innovations (Labov 1972), which makes their language practices less salient to understanding larger processes of language variation and change.…”

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“…In postcolonial contexts, participants located as elite or ‘national bourgeoisie’ are regularly juxtaposed against the majority, the disenfranchised subaltern group(s) (Kearney 1978; Meyer and Chalise 1999; Rubdy 2008; Trudell 2010). Elites are seen as reproducing colonially‐instituted regimes of inequities for their own benefit under the guise of independence (Rizvi, Lingard and Lavia 2006), a form of elite closure, and more generally, are seen as elitist, itself holding pejorative connotations (Talwalker 2009). However, no clear socio‐economic, ideological or political criteria for elitehood successfully subsume all groups who are considered postcolonial elites.…”

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Elite positionings towards Hindi: Language policies, political stances and language competence in India¹

Chand

2011

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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In India, Hindi is imagined and institutionalized as the national language which weds together India's pluralistic population under the banner of a shared Indian identity. Approaching language competence as embedded in and performed through language practices and ideologies, I explore how a New Delhi elite community positions themselves towards Hindi vis-à-vis national language policies and political movements. Contrasting with traditional unified elite portrayals, e.g. 'elite closure' (Myers-Scotton 1990), India has multiple sociolinguistically discordant elite groups, and these liberal elites ideologically construct their Hindi (in)competency in an alternative framework attending to the history (and failure) of Hindi-based nationalism, their disalignment with modern right-wing movements, and their continued affiliation with English. This perspective of some elites as negotiating and disagreeing with contemporary political movements and language policy legislature illuminates language competencies as socially constructed and locally grounded, and challenges past interpretations of postcolonial elites as unified actors controlling the dominant linguistic marketplace.[O]fficial language policy and actual use of various linguistic resources are far apart. (Blommaert et al. 2009: 205)

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Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence

Hansen

2018

Mod. Asian Stud.

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In this Afterword I argue that public authority in South Asia is produced in a dynamic interplay between ever-more segmented publics and the ubiquity of highly performative violence. Drawing on Indian examples, I suggest that the success of vernacular publics in producing a sense of cultural intimacy within language communities in turn has prompted a new segmentation of publics. This has occurred along lines of caste and community, defined by social experience and symbols, rather than language as such. The concomitant routinization of violence in public life—whether as physical destruction of public property, attacks on other communities, or as symbolic elevations of victims of violence to the status of martyrs—indicate that today valorization and experiences of violence, however incommensurable, have emerged as a universal medium, or general equivalent, in public and political life in India.

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Kindred publics: the modernity of kin fetishism in western India

Cited by 4 publications

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News media and contention over “the local” in urban India

News media and contention over “the local” in urban India

Elite positionings towards Hindi: Language policies, political stances and language competence in India¹

Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence

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Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence

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