ISBN:
9781400842612
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1400842611
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (xv, 354 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als Hansen, Thomas Blom, 1958- Melancholia of freedom
DDC:
305.89141068455
Schlagwort(e):
East Indians South Africa
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Durban
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East Indians
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Ethnic Studies ; General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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East Indians
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Race relations
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Religion
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Social conditions
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Race relations
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Social conditions
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Religion
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Durban (South Africa) Race relations
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Durban (South Africa) Social conditions
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Durban (South Africa) Religion
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South Africa
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Durban
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South Africa
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Durban
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Chatsworth
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Religion
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Durban (South Africa) Race relations
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Durban (South Africa) Social conditions
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Durban (South Africa) Religion
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Race relations
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Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) Social conditions
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South Africa ; Durban
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South Africa ; Durban ; Chatsworth
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
Kurzfassung:
Ethnicity by fiat: the remaking of Indian life in South Africa -- Domesticity and cultural intimacy -- Charous and Ravans: a story of mutual nonrecognition -- Autonomy, freedom, and political speech -- Movement, sound, and body in the postapartheid city -- The unwieldy fetish: Desi fantasies, roots tourism, and diasporic desires -- Global Hindus and pure Muslims: universalist aspirations and territorialized lives -- The saved and the backsliders: the Charou soul and the instability of belief -- Postscript: Melancholia in the time of the "African personality."
Kurzfassung:
The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Du
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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