Verfasst von: | Menon, Nivedita [VerfasserIn] |
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Titel: | Secularism as misdirection |
Titelzusatz: | critical thought from the global South |
Verf.angabe: | Nivedita Menon |
Ausgabe: | First US edition |
Verlagsort: | Durham ; London |
Verlag: | Duke University Press |
Jahr: | 2024 |
Umfang: | xv, 478 Seiten |
Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Hedgehog and fox |
Theory in forms | |
Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-4780-3042-3 |
978-1-4780-2620-4 | |
Abstract: | "In Secularism as Misdirection, Nivedita Menon traces how the discourse of secularism fixes attention to and hyper-visualizes women and religion while obscuring other related issues. Showing how secularism is often invoked to serve capital and antiminority politics, Menon exposes it as a strategy of governance that is compatible with both democracy and authoritarianism, capitalism and socialism. Secularism also delegitimizes the nonindividuated nonrational self, Menon argues, and exploring this aspect, tracks the journey of psychoanalysis in the Global South. Menon further examines the interconnectedness of religion, caste, the state, and women, showing how the discourse of secularism can also be mobilized by Hindu supremacist politics in India. Menon puts Latin American decolonial theorists in conversation with Asian and African thinkers to examine twenty-first-century global reimaginings of selfhood, constitutionalism, citizenship, and anticapitalist existence. Through a feminist and global perspective, Menon suggests that transformative politics is better imagined by stepping out of the frame offered by secularism and focusing on substantive values such as democracy, social justice, and ecological justice"-- |
Schlagwörter: | (g)Indien / (s)Hinduismus / (s)Nationalismus / (s)Säkularismus / (s)Kapitalismus |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Menon, Nivedita: Secularism As Misdirection. - 1st ed.. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2024. - 1 online resource (497 pages) |
Sach-SW: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies |
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State | |
K10plus-PPN: | 1870799739 |
Signatur | QR | Standort | Status | |
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219 pol 2024/2162 | CATS / Abt. Südasien: Freihandbereich | entliehen bis 04.02.2025 (gesamte Vormerkungen: 0) | ||
Mediennummer: 45320953, Inventarnummer: 2024/2162 |