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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.

East Indians --- Asian Indians --- Indians, East --- Indians (India) --- Indic peoples --- Ethnology --- Durban (South Africa) --- Chatsworth (Durban, South Africa) --- Chatsworth, South Africa --- Chatsworth Indian Township (Durban, South Africa) --- Durban, Natal --- eThekwini (South Africa) --- Religion. --- Social conditions. --- Race relations. --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Africans. --- Asiatic question. --- Bollywood films. --- Chatsworth. --- Durban. --- Hinduism. --- Indian life. --- Indian middle class. --- Indian township. --- Indian townships. --- Indian. --- Indians. --- Jacob Zuma. --- Muslims. --- Natal. --- Pentecostal Christianity. --- South Africa. --- South African Indians. --- South Africans. --- ambition. --- apartheid regulation. --- apartheid. --- autonomy. --- charou. --- church communities. --- colonialism. --- coolie. --- cultural economy. --- cultural intimacy. --- cultural mobility. --- culturally alien people. --- cynicism. --- diasporic imagination. --- disengagement. --- ethnoracial definition. --- kombi taxi. --- majoritarianism. --- minorities. --- neo-Hindu movements. --- non-African communities. --- policy makers. --- politics. --- postapartheid city. --- postapartheid freedom. --- postapartheid society. --- postapartheid. --- private taxi industry. --- public culture. --- race lines. --- racial practices. --- racial segregation. --- racialized identities. --- racism. --- religious identity. --- religious purification. --- representative politics. --- roots tourism. --- social activists. --- social mobility. --- spiritual purification. --- township politics. --- traditional conservatism. --- urban landscape. --- urban music. --- working-class Indians. --- youth culture.

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9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-state or by a local despotic power or community, is understood and scrutinized as something tentative and unstable whose efficacy depends less on formal rules than on repeated acts of violence. Following the editors' introduction are fourteen essays by leading scholars from around the globe that analyze cultural meanings of sovereign power and violence, as well as practices of citizenship and belonging--in South Africa, Peru, India, Mexico, Cyprus, Norway, and also among transnational Chinese and Indian populations. Sovereign Bodies enriches our understanding of power and sovereignty in the postcolonial world and in "the West" while opening new conceptual fields in the anthropology of politics. The contributors are Ana María Alonso, Lars Buur, Partha Chatterjee, Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, Oivind Fuglerud, Thomas Blom Hansen, Barry Hindess, Steffen Jensen, Achille Mbembe, Aihwa Ong, Finn Stepputat, Simon Turner, Peter van der Veer, and Yael Navaro-Yashin.

Political anthropology. --- Sovereignty. --- Human territoriality. --- Political violence. --- Postcolonialism. --- Power (Social sciences) --- Anthropologie politique --- Souveraineté --- Territorialité humaine --- Violence politique --- Postcolonialisme --- Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) --- Power (Social sciences). --- Sovereign bodies --- Souveraineté --- Territorialité humaine --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Territorial behavior --- Territoriality, Human --- Sovereignty --- State sovereignty (International relations) --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Law and legislation --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Decolonization --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Ethnology --- Human geography --- Spatial behavior --- International law --- Common heritage of mankind (International law) --- International relations --- Self-determination, National --- Anthropological aspects --- Human territoriality --- Political anthropology --- Political violence --- Postcolonialism

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This volume examines the phenomenon of contemporary Hindu nationalism or 'new Hindutva' that is presently the dominant ideological and political-electoral formation in India. There is a rich body of work on Hindu nationalism, but its main focus is on an earlier moment of insurgent movement politics in the 1980s and 1990s. In contrast, new Hindutva is a governmental formation that converges with wider global currents and enjoys mainstream acceptance. To understand these new political forms and their implications for democratic futures, a fresh set of reflections is in order. This book approaches contemporary Hindutva as an example of a democratic authoritarianism or an authoritarian populism, a politics that simultaneously advances and violates ideas and practices of popular and constitutional democracy.

Hindutva --- Hinduism and politics --- India --- Politics and government. --- Hinduism and state --- Nationalism --- Hindu nationalism