Rumor of Globalization: Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins

by Bhaskar Mukhopadhyay

Drawing on recent theories of virtuality, performativity, and governmentality, and on post-colonial activist scholarship, this book presents a series of ethnographic and archival studies of what Mukhopadhyay terms "vernacular globalization" in India.

The book's six provocative chapters cover a wide range of events, objects, histories, narratives and episodes with the intent of interrogating what Franz Fanon called the "zone of occult instability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199327645
• ISBN13: 9780199327645
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"