The Politics of Cultural Practice

by Bharucha, Rustom

• ISBN13: 9780819564245
• ISBN10: 0819564249
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Wesleyan Univ Pr

Summary

Is equitable global cultural exchange possible? Who determines this exchange and at whose expense? Can community and place survive the anonymity of the market and the patriarchy of the state? How can global practice provoke new modes of resistance in an age of globalization? The Politics of Cultural Practice defies the homogenizing and antidemocratic forces of globalization. Refuting the notion that the West is everywhere, Rustom Bharucha draws on the emergent cultures of secular struggle in contemporary India to engage with the volatile global issues of intellectual property rights, cultural tourism, and the marking of minorities on the basis of religion, caste, language, gender, and sexuality. A dazzling analysis of life, politics, and art in our globalizing world, his book demonstrates the power of the intercultural imaginary to radically shape the 21st century.

Author Biography

RUSTOM BHARUCHA is an independent writer, director, and dramaturge based in Calcutta. His books include In the Name of the Secular (1998) and Theatre and the World (1993).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Introduction	1	(19)
Interculturalism and its Discriminations
Shifting the Agendas of the National, the Multicultural, and the Global	20	(25)
When `Eternal India' Meets the YPO
Culture and Globalization	45	(17)
Gundegowda Meets Peer Gynt
Intracultural Negotiations in Theatre	62	(24)
Towards a Politics of Sexuality
Critical Notes on Spider Woman and Fire	86	(16)
Phantoms of the Other
Fragments of the Communal Unconscious	102	(21)
The Shifting Sites of Secularism
Cultural Politics and Activism in India Today	123	(28)
Afterwords
The Body in Crisis and the Future of the Intercultural	151	(12)
Notes	163	(14)
References	177	(7)
Index	184