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The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia
In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientThe introductory article to this theme issue on “The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia” maps the existing historiography and makes a case for a wider history of emotions to elucidate the relationship between space and emotions. We examine the existing theoretical and conceptual models on the relations between space and emotions and illustrate how scholars need to bring together narratives, materiality, and practices in order to understand the entanglement of space and emotions. Through four different but connected historical examples: Mughal imperial Delhi, princely Rampur, small towns milieux in colonial India and the Lyari neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan, we trace the shifting configurations of power, emotions, and social space of “Muslim locales” in South Asia. On this particular terrain, we also want to specify the nature of change in emotional experiences as Muslim locales transformed from elite enclaves into locales of disempowerment in the transition to national independence. We examine the shifting discourses and practices in the built environment, in the landscapes portrayed in visual and literary reconstructions, and in the lived everyday spatial practices and experiences in South Asia. While providing a historical narrative, these articles also present new possibilities to explore affective archives and interdisciplinary approaches for writing a history of emotions.
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N. Green, Making Space: Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012): xii, and M. Hermansen, “Imagining Space and Citing Collective Memory in South Asian Muslim Biographical Literature (Tazkirah).” Studies in Contemporary Islam 4/2 (2002): 1-21. On language and emotions, see L. Mitchell, Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009) and F. Mir, The Social Space of Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial Punjab (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010). Intellectual history has not engaged adequately with emotions in South Asia, but for an insightful exploration of relationship between thought and feelings, see S. Kaviraj, The Invention of Private Life (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2014).
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S. Kaviraj, “A Strange Love of the Land: Identity, Poetry and Politics in the (Un)Making of South Asia.” South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal 10 (2014): 8. url: http://samaj.revues.org/3756. Accessed 5 August 2015.
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S. Boyrm, Yearning for Yesterday: A Sociology of Nostalgia (New York: Free Press, 1979). For an excellent exploration of multiple temporalities and spatialities of memory, see E. Ho, The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006).
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Sara Ahmad, The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
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The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia
In: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the OrientThe introductory article to this theme issue on “The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia” maps the existing historiography and makes a case for a wider history of emotions to elucidate the relationship between space and emotions. We examine the existing theoretical and conceptual models on the relations between space and emotions and illustrate how scholars need to bring together narratives, materiality, and practices in order to understand the entanglement of space and emotions. Through four different but connected historical examples: Mughal imperial Delhi, princely Rampur, small towns milieux in colonial India and the Lyari neighborhood in Karachi, Pakistan, we trace the shifting configurations of power, emotions, and social space of “Muslim locales” in South Asia. On this particular terrain, we also want to specify the nature of change in emotional experiences as Muslim locales transformed from elite enclaves into locales of disempowerment in the transition to national independence. We examine the shifting discourses and practices in the built environment, in the landscapes portrayed in visual and literary reconstructions, and in the lived everyday spatial practices and experiences in South Asia. While providing a historical narrative, these articles also present new possibilities to explore affective archives and interdisciplinary approaches for writing a history of emotions.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abstract Views | 759 | 115 | 15 |
| Full Text Views | 353 | 11 | 0 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 132 | 33 | 3 |