Books

This book explores emergent subjectivities of Indian Muslim youth, as they unfold within a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and society saturated with communication technologies of satellite television, mobile telephones, Internet, W.2 applications, and social networking platforms like Facebook. It is an ethnographic investigation into the way revolutionary changes in communication technologies, affecting media’s reach and content, as well as, audience’s access to and their modes of engagement with media within contexts of neoliberal globalization, are inflecting the self-consciousness and identity of minority Muslim youth population. The research examines the lives of Muslim youth, who reside in a historically and spatially segregated Muslim enclave of Jamia Nagar in New Delhi, and who like other Indian Muslims, have been excluded from mainstream Indian society, to understand how their marginalized and localized existence is being redefined by the vortex of global flows created by neoliberal mediated globalization. The book analyzes the interconnections between everyday lives and larger global developments and investigates how Muslim youth’s consciousness has become today rife with new desires for integration into mainstream Indian society that oppose their historic isolation and exclusion.