Srivastava
Biographic Data
| ID | 18432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Srivastava |
| FAMILY NAME | Srivastava |
| SIGNATURE | SRIVASTAVA |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0461-3122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Consultancy State: Government as (a) Service and the Anti‐politics of Technological Expertise in Indian Cities
This article analyses ideas of ‘good governance through technology’ in India that first emerged from the software industry, symbolizing state support for the ‘new middle‐class’ values of liberalized private enterprise. We suggest that the contemporary prominence of consulting firms in government represents a second transformation that embeds private sector logics within statehood. Perceived needs for technical expertise allow consultants to suppl…
Greek Metaphysics and the Perspectives of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in the Context of Physical Education
Plato emphasized the importance of physical education for soul development in his book ‘Phaedo’, which Socrates shunned for the same reason. Plato emphasized the physical component and the harmonious balance of the material and spiritual in his books ‘Republic’ and ‘Laws’. In his book ‘Politics’, Aristotle defined three elements of excellent education, the first of which was physical health. In this framework, sports and physical education should…
Relational flexibility: Skills, “personality development,” and the limits of theorizing neoliberal selfhood in India
Since the 1990s, training programs for service-sector jobs have proliferated in India. Frequently referred to as "skills training," these programs aim to overcome the perceived cultural and professional "deficiencies" of youth from the poorest sections of society. They focus on "soft skills" and "personality development," teaching body etiquette, time discipline, and emotional control; introducing students to "global" cuisine and commodities; and…
Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India
Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publica…
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology
Questions of alternation might be read as intrinsic to sociological approaches to sexual difference and diversity. By this we mean ways in which the sexual as social scientific subject/object has oft been conceived of against the background of fluctuating conceptual and contextual registers. Terms for the empirical description, recognition and analysis of sexual life-worlds have most often been contested and queried. This might be especially so w…
On the merits of recognizing the near-impossibility of dialogue
What does it mean to insert and describe actual spaces of dialogue and debate within discussions regarding power, privilege, disparate geographies, and the ‘Possibilities and Limits to Dialogue’? Is there a critical potential to the argument that we recognize the near-impossibility of the conditions of dialogue under certain actually existing conditions of life? Through providing a concrete example from India, this commentary suggests that recogn…
Divine Markets: Ethnographic Notes on Postnationalism and Moral Consumption in India
This chapter explores the connections between contemporary practices of religiosity and one of the most sociologically significant processes of contemporary Indian life: consumerism. The chapter builds upon other discussions that explore this relationship in different parts of the world (Stambach 2000; Eickelman and Anderson 2003; Oosterbaan 2009), as well as those which address India specifically (e.g., T. Srinivas 2010; Srivastava 2011). The di…
Natives, Subjects, Consumers: Notes on Continuities and Transformations in Indian Masculine Cultures
This article explores recent histories of masculine cultures in India. The discussion proceeds through outlining the most significant sites of the making of masculinity discourses during the colonial, the immediate post-colonial as well as the contemporary period. The immediate present is explored through an investigation of the the media persona of India's current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Through constructing a narrative of Indian modernit…
Modi-Masculinity: Media, Manhood, and “Traditions” in a Time of Consumerism
Media discourses—both independent journalism and advertisements—during the 2014 general election in India articulated a gendered focus on a significant aspect of Narendra Modi’s public representation relating to his forceful masculinity. His election campaign—as well as popular discourse that surrounded his pre-prime ministerial persona—significantly focused upon his “manly” leadership style: efficient, dynamic, potent, and capable of removing al…
Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel
This essay investigates the sexual cultures of contemporary Hindi-language ‘detective’ novels by focusing on the writings of one of India's biggest-selling authors, Ved Prakash Sharma. Sharma's novels are usually available at railway stations and bus stands, as well as bookstalls in the poorer localities of north Indian cities. The essay suggests that the sexual motif in the novels sits alongside an unstated discourse of ‘Indian traditions’ – suc…
The Association of Religiosity and Political Conservatism: The Role of Political Engagement
Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religiosity was associated with conservative positions on a w…
Duplicity, intimacy, community: An ethnography of ID cards, permits and other fake documents in Delhi
In the annals of Indian modernity, narratives of tricksters and counterfeiters have a long, popular, and cautionary history. The topographies of deception outlined by colonial and post-colonial police reports established both its history as an aspect of modern industrial life as well as the city as the 'scene of the crime'. This article explores the meanings that attach to certain contemporary acts of deceiving and faking, and the ways in which t…
Revolution forever
This article explores the cultures of urban spaces and consumerism at the economic and cultural margins of the city. Building upon contemporary research on the efflorescence of consumerism in the wake of economic 'liberalisation', it focuses on the involvement of residents of the erstwhile Nangla Matchi 'slum' in Delhi in the activities of the 'multilevel marketing' company Revolution Forever (RF). The discussion proceeds through presenting a ser…
Fragmentary pleasures: Masculinity, urban spaces, and commodity politics in Delhi
À partir de théorisations du genre, de l'espace et de la subjectivité, ainsi que des cultures de consommation, l'auteur explore la politique contemporaine de la masculinitéà Delhi. Il s'intéresse à un groupe de jeunes hommes du Bajrang Dal, une organisation de droite hindoue, pour explorer la vie de ceux-ci en tant que sujets urbains, dont les actions se déroulent dans différents registres qui ne se résument pas au « nationalisme hindou ». Est en…
Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce during the first fifteen years of parenthood
This study examines 2 overlapping longitudinal samples of U.S. couples with children, covering a period of 15 years after the first child's birth. The first sample extended from the pregnancy with a first child until that child was 5.5 years old and the second from ages 4.5 to 14.5. Growth curve analyses revealed that marital satisfaction declined over 15 years for both husbands and wives. Attachment security measured in the second sample was ass…
Ghummakkads, a woman's place, and the LTC-walas: Towards a critical history of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘attachment
This article seeks to re-think the perspective within South Asian studies that speaks of the fixity of home and belonging in the Indian context. Accumulated scholarly wisdom frequently points to the singularity and transparency of ideas of attachment to 'native places' and 'ancestral villages'. Through a consideration of a range of material, the paper explores how specific but far more complex ideas of home and belonging circulate in Indian socie…
Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a ‘Happy Married Life’: Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia
The writers of these essays argue that in societies undergoing rapid change, the construction of sexuality and the discourses that surround it, have a fundamental connection with an entire gamut of processes with which individuals must engage
Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory
(2001). Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 1-24
Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a ‘happy married life’: The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India
(2001). Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a 'happy married life': The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 225-249
Imagining Social Landscapes
Doon School Chronicles. film by David MacDougall. Distributed by Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California, 2000 Center Street, Berkeley. CA 94704. 143 minutes
Postcoloniality, national identity, globalisation and the simulacra of the real
The focus of this paper is a famous boys’ boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross‐section of the postcolonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the ‘modern ‘ Indian citizen. The discussion below suggests that we need to focus on specific sites of the production of the discourses of the nation and citizenship rather than simply announce the…
Postcoloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real
The focus of this paper is a famous boys' boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross section of post‐colonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the ‘modern’ Indian citizen. The discussion below suggests that contemporary social analysis needs to focus on specific sites of the production of the discourses of the nation and citizenship rather t…
Introduction1
The owl of Minerva which brings wisdom, said Hegel, flies out at dusk. It is a good sign that it is now circling round nations and nationalism.-(E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism
Instituting Malaysia
The Association of Religiosity and Political Conservatism: The Role of Political Engagement
Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religiosity was associated with conservative positions on a w…
Duplicity, intimacy, community: An ethnography of ID cards, permits and other fake documents in Delhi
In the annals of Indian modernity, narratives of tricksters and counterfeiters have a long, popular, and cautionary history. The topographies of deception outlined by colonial and post-colonial police reports established both its history as an aspect of modern industrial life as well as the city as the 'scene of the crime'. This article explores the meanings that attach to certain contemporary acts of deceiving and faking, and the ways in which t…
Modi-Masculinity: Media, Manhood, and “Traditions” in a Time of Consumerism
Media discourses—both independent journalism and advertisements—during the 2014 general election in India articulated a gendered focus on a significant aspect of Narendra Modi’s public representation relating to his forceful masculinity. His election campaign—as well as popular discourse that surrounded his pre-prime ministerial persona—significantly focused upon his “manly” leadership style: efficient, dynamic, potent, and capable of removing al…
Fragmentary pleasures: Masculinity, urban spaces, and commodity politics in Delhi
À partir de théorisations du genre, de l'espace et de la subjectivité, ainsi que des cultures de consommation, l'auteur explore la politique contemporaine de la masculinitéà Delhi. Il s'intéresse à un groupe de jeunes hommes du Bajrang Dal, une organisation de droite hindoue, pour explorer la vie de ceux-ci en tant que sujets urbains, dont les actions se déroulent dans différents registres qui ne se résument pas au « nationalisme hindou ». Est en…
Relational flexibility: Skills, “personality development,” and the limits of theorizing neoliberal selfhood in India
Since the 1990s, training programs for service-sector jobs have proliferated in India. Frequently referred to as "skills training," these programs aim to overcome the perceived cultural and professional "deficiencies" of youth from the poorest sections of society. They focus on "soft skills" and "personality development," teaching body etiquette, time discipline, and emotional control; introducing students to "global" cuisine and commodities; and…
Revolution forever
This article explores the cultures of urban spaces and consumerism at the economic and cultural margins of the city. Building upon contemporary research on the efflorescence of consumerism in the wake of economic 'liberalisation', it focuses on the involvement of residents of the erstwhile Nangla Matchi 'slum' in Delhi in the activities of the 'multilevel marketing' company Revolution Forever (RF). The discussion proceeds through presenting a ser…
Ghummakkads, a woman's place, and the LTC-walas: Towards a critical history of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘attachment
This article seeks to re-think the perspective within South Asian studies that speaks of the fixity of home and belonging in the Indian context. Accumulated scholarly wisdom frequently points to the singularity and transparency of ideas of attachment to 'native places' and 'ancestral villages'. Through a consideration of a range of material, the paper explores how specific but far more complex ideas of home and belonging circulate in Indian socie…
Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory
(2001). Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 1-24
Natives, Subjects, Consumers: Notes on Continuities and Transformations in Indian Masculine Cultures
This article explores recent histories of masculine cultures in India. The discussion proceeds through outlining the most significant sites of the making of masculinity discourses during the colonial, the immediate post-colonial as well as the contemporary period. The immediate present is explored through an investigation of the the media persona of India's current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Through constructing a narrative of Indian modernit…
Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a ‘happy married life’: The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India
(2001). Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a 'happy married life': The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 225-249
The management of water: Modernity, technocracy, and the citizen at the Doon school
On the merits of recognizing the near-impossibility of dialogue
What does it mean to insert and describe actual spaces of dialogue and debate within discussions regarding power, privilege, disparate geographies, and the ‘Possibilities and Limits to Dialogue’? Is there a critical potential to the argument that we recognize the near-impossibility of the conditions of dialogue under certain actually existing conditions of life? Through providing a concrete example from India, this commentary suggests that recogn…
Postcoloniality, national identity, globalisation and the simulacra of the real
The focus of this paper is a famous boys’ boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross‐section of the postcolonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the ‘modern ‘ Indian citizen. The discussion below suggests that we need to focus on specific sites of the production of the discourses of the nation and citizenship rather than simply announce the…
The Order of Men: The Nation and the Metropolitan Imaginary at an Indian Public School
This article is concerned with exploring discursive constructions of Indian post‐coloniality and modernity. The analysis focuses upon a fully residential boys school in North India, the Doon School, which has played a historically significant role in the production of a discourse on nationhood and citizenship. Elsewhere, I have argued that the School defines its citizenship project in terms of three main ‘imaginaries’: secularism, rationality, an…
The management of water: Modernity, technocracy, and the citizen at the Doon school
Instituting Malaysia
Postcoloniality, National Identity, Globalisation and the Simulacra of the Real
The focus of this paper is a famous boys' boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross section of post‐colonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the ‘modern’ Indian citizen. The discussion below suggests that contemporary social analysis needs to focus on specific sites of the production of the discourses of the nation and citizenship rather t…
Introduction1
The owl of Minerva which brings wisdom, said Hegel, flies out at dusk. It is a good sign that it is now circling round nations and nationalism.-(E. J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism
Postcoloniality, national identity, globalisation and the simulacra of the real
The focus of this paper is a famous boys’ boarding school in the North Indian city of Dehra Dun. The Doon School was founded in 1935 and was soon hailed by a wide cross‐section of the postcolonial Indian intelligentsia as the site for the production of the ‘modern ‘ Indian citizen. The discussion below suggests that we need to focus on specific sites of the production of the discourses of the nation and citizenship rather than simply announce the…
Imagining Social Landscapes
Doon School Chronicles. film by David MacDougall. Distributed by Center for Media and Independent Learning, University of California, 2000 Center Street, Berkeley. CA 94704. 143 minutes
Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory
(2001). Introduction: Semen, history, desire, and theory. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 1-24
Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a ‘happy married life’: The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India
(2001). Non‐gandhian sexuality, commodity cultures, and a 'happy married life': The cultures of masculinity and heterosexuality in India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 24, Sexual sites, seminal attitudes: Sexualities, masculinites and culture in South Asia, pp. 225-249
Non-Gandhian Sexuality, Commodity Cultures and a ‘Happy Married Life’: Masculine and Sexual Cultures in the Metropolis
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia
The writers of these essays argue that in societies undergoing rapid change, the construction of sexuality and the discourses that surround it, have a fundamental connection with an entire gamut of processes with which individuals must engage
Ghummakkads, a woman's place, and the LTC-walas: Towards a critical history of ‘home’, ‘belonging’ and ‘attachment
This article seeks to re-think the perspective within South Asian studies that speaks of the fixity of home and belonging in the Indian context. Accumulated scholarly wisdom frequently points to the singularity and transparency of ideas of attachment to 'native places' and 'ancestral villages'. Through a consideration of a range of material, the paper explores how specific but far more complex ideas of home and belonging circulate in Indian socie…
Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce during the first fifteen years of parenthood
This study examines 2 overlapping longitudinal samples of U.S. couples with children, covering a period of 15 years after the first child's birth. The first sample extended from the pregnancy with a first child until that child was 5.5 years old and the second from ages 4.5 to 14.5. Growth curve analyses revealed that marital satisfaction declined over 15 years for both husbands and wives. Attachment security measured in the second sample was ass…
Revolution forever
This article explores the cultures of urban spaces and consumerism at the economic and cultural margins of the city. Building upon contemporary research on the efflorescence of consumerism in the wake of economic 'liberalisation', it focuses on the involvement of residents of the erstwhile Nangla Matchi 'slum' in Delhi in the activities of the 'multilevel marketing' company Revolution Forever (RF). The discussion proceeds through presenting a ser…
Fragmentary pleasures: Masculinity, urban spaces, and commodity politics in Delhi
À partir de théorisations du genre, de l'espace et de la subjectivité, ainsi que des cultures de consommation, l'auteur explore la politique contemporaine de la masculinitéà Delhi. Il s'intéresse à un groupe de jeunes hommes du Bajrang Dal, une organisation de droite hindoue, pour explorer la vie de ceux-ci en tant que sujets urbains, dont les actions se déroulent dans différents registres qui ne se résument pas au « nationalisme hindou ». Est en…
The Association of Religiosity and Political Conservatism: The Role of Political Engagement
Some argue that there is an organic connection between being religious and being politically conservative. We evaluate an alternative thesis that the relation between religiosity and political conservatism largely results from engagement with political discourse that indicates that these characteristics go together. In a combined sample of national survey respondents from 1996 to 2008, religiosity was associated with conservative positions on a w…
Duplicity, intimacy, community: An ethnography of ID cards, permits and other fake documents in Delhi
In the annals of Indian modernity, narratives of tricksters and counterfeiters have a long, popular, and cautionary history. The topographies of deception outlined by colonial and post-colonial police reports established both its history as an aspect of modern industrial life as well as the city as the 'scene of the crime'. This article explores the meanings that attach to certain contemporary acts of deceiving and faking, and the ways in which t…
Thrilling Affects: Sexuality, Masculinity, the City and ‘Indian Traditions’ in the Contemporary Hindi ‘Detective’ Novel
This essay investigates the sexual cultures of contemporary Hindi-language ‘detective’ novels by focusing on the writings of one of India's biggest-selling authors, Ved Prakash Sharma. Sharma's novels are usually available at railway stations and bus stands, as well as bookstalls in the poorer localities of north Indian cities. The essay suggests that the sexual motif in the novels sits alongside an unstated discourse of ‘Indian traditions’ – suc…
Modi-Masculinity: Media, Manhood, and “Traditions” in a Time of Consumerism
Media discourses—both independent journalism and advertisements—during the 2014 general election in India articulated a gendered focus on a significant aspect of Narendra Modi’s public representation relating to his forceful masculinity. His election campaign—as well as popular discourse that surrounded his pre-prime ministerial persona—significantly focused upon his “manly” leadership style: efficient, dynamic, potent, and capable of removing al…
Natives, Subjects, Consumers: Notes on Continuities and Transformations in Indian Masculine Cultures
This article explores recent histories of masculine cultures in India. The discussion proceeds through outlining the most significant sites of the making of masculinity discourses during the colonial, the immediate post-colonial as well as the contemporary period. The immediate present is explored through an investigation of the the media persona of India's current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Through constructing a narrative of Indian modernit…
Divine Markets: Ethnographic Notes on Postnationalism and Moral Consumption in India
This chapter explores the connections between contemporary practices of religiosity and one of the most sociologically significant processes of contemporary Indian life: consumerism. The chapter builds upon other discussions that explore this relationship in different parts of the world (Stambach 2000; Eickelman and Anderson 2003; Oosterbaan 2009), as well as those which address India specifically (e.g., T. Srinivas 2010; Srivastava 2011). The di…
On the merits of recognizing the near-impossibility of dialogue
What does it mean to insert and describe actual spaces of dialogue and debate within discussions regarding power, privilege, disparate geographies, and the ‘Possibilities and Limits to Dialogue’? Is there a critical potential to the argument that we recognize the near-impossibility of the conditions of dialogue under certain actually existing conditions of life? Through providing a concrete example from India, this commentary suggests that recogn…
Critical Themes in Indian Sociology
Questions of alternation might be read as intrinsic to sociological approaches to sexual difference and diversity. By this we mean ways in which the sexual as social scientific subject/object has oft been conceived of against the background of fluctuating conceptual and contextual registers. Terms for the empirical description, recognition and analysis of sexual life-worlds have most often been contested and queried. This might be especially so w…
Passionate Modernity: Sexuality, Class, and Consumption in India
Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publica…
Greek Metaphysics and the Perspectives of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in the Context of Physical Education
Plato emphasized the importance of physical education for soul development in his book ‘Phaedo’, which Socrates shunned for the same reason. Plato emphasized the physical component and the harmonious balance of the material and spiritual in his books ‘Republic’ and ‘Laws’. In his book ‘Politics’, Aristotle defined three elements of excellent education, the first of which was physical health. In this framework, sports and physical education should…
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