Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital and Novelty in Post-reform India

Ravinder Kaur; Thomas Blom Hansen

doi:10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034135

Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital and Novelty in Post-reform India

Ravinder Kaur, Thomas Blom Hansen

Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier

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Abstract

India’s celebrated ‘arrival on the global stage’ as a desirable ‘emerging market’ for global investors signals the spectacular moment that is said to have ruptured the barriers between the first and third worlds. If the notion of arrival anticipates the long-awaited acceleration in the pace of history, it also harnesses a euphoric India to the limitless future promised by the new. In this special issue, we set our focus on the aesthetics of arrival that signal novelty, visibility and celebration of post-reform India within and outside the nation. We ask how novelty is manufactured and experienced when the majority of the population remains excluded from new India. The answer probably lies in the way in which this other India is signified as the past, as ‘old India’ that holds back the nation.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Identities - Global Studies in Culture and Power
Vol/bind	23
Udgave nummer	3
Sider (fra-til)	265-275
Antal sider	11
ISSN	1070-289X
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034135
Status	Udgivet - 3 maj 2016

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