Youth geographies in South Asia: Gender, religiosity and aspirations
Type: Virtual Paper
Day: 2/26/2022
Start Time: 3:40 PM
End Time: 5:00 PM
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Organizer(s):
Leya Mathew
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Chairs(s):
Mona Mehta, Ahmedabad University
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Description:
This virtual panel will discuss the gendered geographies of youth religiosity in India. It will explore how youth construct, emphasize, rework, and subvert masculinity/femininity through religious practices and performances in particular kinds of social spaces, including tech-mediated spaces. Rather than reduce religiosity (and religious fundamentalism) into a “reaction” against modernization, papers are invited that take seriously the lived dilemmas, dynamic relations, and concrete material realities of youth religiosity (Singh 2017). We are interested in exploring how youth navigate the sacred and the secular, the divine and the modern, through artifacts, rituals, and practices that variously encompass the ordinary and the spectacular. Both historical and contemporary analysis are welcome. We are especially interested in papers that explore consumption, party politics, protests, and social media as they relate to co-constructions of youth, gender, and religiosity.
Presentation(s), if applicable
Manisha Priyam, ; Boundaries and Belonging: Different Lives of Muslim Youth in a College Campus, North India |
Sugandha Nagpal, ; Self-Making of Young Dalit Women: Becoming the Cultured and Mobile Ravidassia |
Mona Mehta, ; Risky 'rono' (king): Interpreting shamans and the shifting geographies of youth aspirations in neoliberal Gujarat |
Leya Mathew, ; We ran up the Girnar: The spatial rescue of masculinity in western India |
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Youth geographies in South Asia: Gender, religiosity and aspirations
Description
Virtual Paper
Contact the Primary Organizer
Leya Mathew - leyamathew@gmail.com
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