TY - BOOK AU - Hansen,Thomas Blom TI - Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa SN - 9780691152967 AV - DT2405.D889 E3735 2017 U1 - 305.89141068455 23 PY - 2012///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - East Indians KW - South Africa KW - Durban KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social KW - bisacsh KW - Africans KW - Asiatic question KW - Bollywood films KW - Chatsworth KW - Hinduism KW - Indian life KW - Indian middle class KW - Indian township KW - Indian townships KW - Indian KW - Indians KW - Jacob Zuma KW - Muslims KW - Natal KW - Pentecostal Christianity KW - South African Indians KW - South Africans KW - ambition KW - apartheid regulation KW - apartheid KW - autonomy KW - charou KW - church communities KW - colonialism KW - coolie KW - cultural economy KW - cultural intimacy KW - cultural mobility KW - culturally alien people KW - cynicism KW - diasporic imagination KW - disengagement KW - ethnoracial definition KW - kombi taxi KW - majoritarianism KW - minorities KW - neo-Hindu movements KW - non-African communities KW - policy makers KW - politics KW - postapartheid city KW - postapartheid freedom KW - postapartheid society KW - postapartheid KW - private taxi industry KW - public culture KW - race lines KW - racial practices KW - racial segregation KW - racialized identities KW - racism KW - religious identity KW - religious purification KW - representative politics KW - roots tourism KW - social activists KW - social mobility KW - spiritual purification KW - township politics KW - traditional conservatism KW - urban landscape KW - urban music KW - working-class Indians KW - youth culture N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa --; Chapter 2. Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy --; Chapter 3. Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition --; Chapter 4. Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech --; Chapter 5. Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City --; Chapter 6. The Unwieldy Fetish --; Chapter 7. Global Hindus and Pure Muslims --; Chapter 8. The Saved and the Backsliders --; Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" --; Notes --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The end of apartheid in 1994 signaled a moment of freedom and a promise of a nonracial future. With this promise came an injunction: define yourself as you truly are, as an individual, and as a community. Almost two decades later it is clear that it was less the prospect of that future than the habits and horizons of anxious life in racially defined enclaves that determined postapartheid freedom. In this book, Thomas Blom Hansen offers an in-depth analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. Exploring five decades of township life, Hansen tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space and its institutions, during apartheid and after. Hansen demonstrates the complex and ambivalent nature of ordinary township life. While the ideology of apartheid was widely rejected, its practical institutions, from urban planning to houses, schools, and religious spaces, were embraced in order to remake the community. Hansen describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics. He also demonstrates the force of global religious imaginings that promise a universal and inclusive community amid uncertain lives and futures in the postapartheid nation-state UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400842612?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400842612 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400842612.jpg ER -