Migration, transnationalism, and modernity

Thinking of Kerala's many cosmopolitanisms

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3877832
AutoresJ Devika (Centre For Development Studies, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume24
Fascículo2-3
Páginas127-142
Data de publicação2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0921374013482359
OpenAlexW2049886083
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas16
Referências citadas20

This article claims that the history of modernity in twentieth-century Kerala is inextricably bound up with the histories of migration and transnationalisms in the region. It argues that a distinction can be made between the earlier and later phases of the migratory and transnational experience. The former allowed for the 'cosmopolitanism of ideas' that imagined hitherto-non-existent communities across cultural boundaries and 'competing cosmopolitanisms' in the region. Post-independence, however, altered political conditions that impacted migration and transnationalism and produced the 'cosmopolitanism of duty', which works with fairly fixed ideas about the national and community/family values and aims for flexibility in negotiating these worlds. These have had distinct effects on modernity in Kerala

Aesthetics · Cosmopolitanism · Duty · Epistemology · Modernity · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Transnationalism · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture