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OverviewThe question of identity, and especially its formation among youth, has received significant academic attention as our worlds become intricately and unpredictably connected through satellite televisions, mobile telephones, Internet, and social networking platforms. Marking a distinct addition to such scholarship, this volume is an ethnographic study of the under-investigated issue of Indian Muslim youth's emergent subjectivity in a media-saturated globalized Indian society. The author develops the idea of 'convoluted modernity' to explain Muslim youth's reactions to multifarious and divergent influences both from the East as well as the West shaping their everyday life. The concept illustrates how Muslim youths' ideas about self and community draw equally on MTV as on Peace TV to create a complex truck between consumerist hedonism and globalized Islam. Introducing a new perspective to studies on globalization, media, and cultural politics, this book shows how interpolation of local and global in the accelerated virtual spheres, and their contextual interpretation within an expanding economy, notwithstanding Muslim youth's disadvantaged position, shape alternate modernities rife with ambiguities and beyond binaries of progress and regression. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tabassum Ruhi Khan (, University of California)Publisher: OUP India Imprint: OUP India Dimensions: Width: 14.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.412kg ISBN: 9780199453610ISBN 10: 0199453616 Pages: 256 Publication Date: December 2015 Audience: General/trade , General , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction: Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism ; 1. MTV and Peace TV: Global Cool and Apna Mahol in Jamia Enclave ; 2. Cyber Citizens: Rewriting Social and Political Marginalization ; 3. Muslim Women Negotiating Modernity and Islam ; Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index ; About the AuthorReviewsThis is a book which makes one think. Muslim World Book Review Author InformationTabassum Ruhi Khan teaches media and cultural studies at the University of California, Riverside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |