Srirupa Prasad

Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940

Contagions of Feeling

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines genealogies of contagion in between contagion as microbe and contagion as affect. It analyzes how and why hygiene became authoritative and succeeded in becoming a part of the broader social and cultural vocabulary within the colonialist, anti-colonial, as well as modernist discourses.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-52071-5
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 292g
• ISBN-13: 9781137520715
• ISBN-10: 113752071X
• Artikelnr.: 42787942

Autorenporträt

Srirupa Prasad is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology at University of Missouri, USA. She previously taught at University of Madison-Wisconsin, USA, in the Department of Medical History and Bioethics.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction: Contagion and Cultural Politics of Hygiene
1. Alimentary Anxieties: Affect in Food and Hunger
2. Body, Hygiene, and Affective Politics of Gandhi's Swaraj
3. Imagining the Social Body: Competing Moralities of Care and Contagion
4. Affective Remedies: Advertisements and Cultural Politics of Hygiene

Rezensionen

'The Cultural Politics of Hygiene in India, 1890-1940 makes a high-quality and original contribution to the literature on colonial India, public health, and the relationship between science and imperialism. By exploring the intersection of various public health interventions in India, especially issues related to food and sanitation, Srirupa Prasad offers new insights into the nature of colonial rule and Indian society under colonial rule.' Nico Slate, Carnegie Mellon University, USA