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Cosmopolitan Maternalisms: Migration, Kinship, and Coorg Mothering in Modernity
Authors:
Bittiandra Chand Somaiah (author)
,
Veena Ravi Poonacha (foreword)
ISBN:
9789395474733
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2026
Pages:
314
Size:
16 x 24 x 3 cm
Weight:
635 grams
Price:
INR
2295
2066.00
About the Book
This women-centred study examines social reconstructions of immigrant mothering among a middle-class minority community of first-generation Coorg women “Kodavathees” in urban Karnataka, Singapore, and Sydney through conceptual lenses of new cosmopolitanisms and new maternalisms.
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms
explores how Kodavathee immigrant mothering is practised with a pragmatic awareness of adapting the ways of the ancestors to the promises and pitfalls associated with living in modernity. As a member of this community, which possesses martial and agricultural traditions, and as an immigrant mother herself, Bittiandra Chand Somaiah engages in maternal conversations and in-depth qualitative interviews with forty-three mothers. The book emphasizes the socio-cultural processes associated with cosmopolitanization that accomplish mothering in general and that affect these Kodavathee mothers specifically.
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms
makes sense of the gendered and globalized convictions, contradictions, and aspirations shared by these mothers who are poised to slowly challenge the heteronormative maternal pedestals and patriarchal structures of middle-class transnational India.
About the Authors
Alexander Henn
Alexander Henn is Associate Professor at the Department for Religious Studies and the School of Global Studies at Arizona State University in Phoenix (USA).
Klaus-Peter Koepping
Klaus-Peter Koepping is Emeritus Professor of the University Heidelberg and currently visiting professor at Goldsmith College, Center for Cultural Studies, at the University of London.
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