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Rai, Shirin (2014) Political aesthetics of the nation. Interventions, 16 (6). pp. 898-915. doi:10.1080/1369801X.2014.882147 ISSN 1369-801X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2014.882147
Abstract
This essay argues that aesthetic approaches to studying politics can allow us to read politics in more nuanced ways. Through the study of murals and statues in the Indian parliament, it is suggested that the politics of art and the art of politics are conjoined. In particular, the essay examines the ways in which the postcolonial Indian state reproduces the discourse of nationalism and modernity through its production of a nationalist aesthetic and how the consumption of this aesthetics results in struggles over meaning-making and its legitimacy.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Interventions | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1369-801X | ||||
Official Date: | 30 January 2014 | ||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||
Number: | 6 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 898-915 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/1369801X.2014.882147 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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