“Shining” in Public Masculine Assertion and Anxiety in Globalizing Kerala

• Published in: Young Men in Uncertain Times p. 35
• Main Author: Ritty A. Lukose
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berghahn Books 15.11.2011
• Edition: NED - New edition, 1
• Subjects: Anthropology; Asian studies; Behavioral sciences; Children; Classical mechanics; Development studies; Economic disciplines; Economics; Employment; Ethnography; Ethnology; Gender identity; Gender studies; Globalization; Human geography; Human populations; India studies; Indian culture; International development; Kinematics; Labor economics; Land use; Liberalization; Masculinity; Mechanics; Men; Persons; Physical sciences; Physics; Political change; Political communication; Political discourse; Political processes; Political science; Political sociology; Politics; Population studies; Public space; Scope of employment; Social sciences; South Asian studies; Trajectories; Unemployment
• ISBN: 9781782383123; 1782383123

A wide-ranging contemporary set of conceptions tout India’s place in a globalizing world, particularly images and discourses increasingly popular since the early 1990s that proclaim India as an emerging global power. This is “India Rising,” as a recent magazine article puts it (Zakaria 2006). Reform policies that opened up the Indian economy to global market forces—colloquially known as “liberalization”—have significantly transformed the political, economic, and cultural landscape of India. Media representations of Third-World poverty, an uneducated, rural, and traditional society, and an inefficient and corrupt bureaucratic state—all backward or underdeveloped in comparison to the “modern” West—jostle