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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1569-1322
- eISSN
- 1569-1330
- DOI
- 10.1163/156913307X216538
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews / Comparative Sociology 6 (2007) 374–386 377 Zavos, John, Andrew Wyatt and Vernon Hewitt (eds.) , 2004, Th e Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India , New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 276 pp., ISBN13: 9780195668018, ISBN10: 0195668014 (hb), $45.00. Th e Politics of Cultural Mobilization in India investigates the relationship between politics and culture in India, and examines how the rise of Hindu nationalism, the politics of Temple, and other forms of cultural mobiliza- tion relate to the institutions of Indian politics. Th e book also explores the contextual connections between the “multiple denationalizing forces associated with globalization” and the contemporary cultural mobiliza- tion and political fragmentation in India. Th e contributors of this edited volume are scholars of religious studies, political science, anthropology, and history, and work primarily in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. Th e book is divided into three parts, with three essays in each partition. Th e first part of the book, aptly titled Ways of Looking , looks at politics and political cultures through political performativity, cultural determi- nants, and ethnographic detail. Th omas Hansen’s Politics as Permanent Per- formance explains how political movements and parties create public
Journal
Comparative Sociology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007