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Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India

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Availability:In StockContributor:Craig JeffreyPublish date:2010-08-16Pages:231
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804770743ISBN-10:804770743UPC:9780804770743Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Ethnic Studies, Men's StudiesSize:8.99 x 6.41 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXMC3P19J
Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic resources is delayed, often indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to reflect on the significance of "waiting" in the contemporary world. Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating ethnography of the student politics and youth activism that lower middle class young men in India have undertaken in response to pervasive underemployment. It highlights the importance of waiting as a social experience and basis for political mobilization, the micro-politics of class power in north India, and the socio-economic strategies of lower middle classes. The book also explores how this north Indian story relates to practices of waiting occurring in multiple other contexts, making the book of interest to scholars and students of globalization, youth studies, and class across the social sciences.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804770743ISBN-10:804770743UPC:9780804770743Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Ethnic Studies, Men's StudiesSize:8.99 x 6.41 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCXMC3P19J
Craig Jeffrey is a Fellow, Tutor, and University Lecturer in Geography at Oxford University. He is a coauthor of Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India (Stanford, 2007).
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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