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Shantanu Kulshreshth
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Kulshreshth, S. Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the cultural production of good work in a North Indian Madrasa.
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Kulshreshth, Shantanu. “Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the Cultural Production of Good Work in a North Indian Madrasa,” n.d.
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Kulshreshth, Shantanu. Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the Cultural Production of Good Work in a North Indian Madrasa.
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@unpublished{shantanu-a,
title = {Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the cultural production of good work in a North Indian Madrasa},
author = {Kulshreshth, Shantanu}
}
Abstract
Drawing from year-long ethnographic fieldwork in a North Indian Madrasa, this paper looks at how young Madrasa students are navigating socio-economic precarity in their everyday lives. I primarily focus on young people’s navigation of neoliberal and Hindu Nationalist discourses surrounding work and employment. In doing so, I draw on the recent turn in critical work geographies by de-emphasising a wage-centric approach to studying practices of work. At the same time, I show how work is locally constructed and mobilised in relation to a variety of social and cultural resources by focusing on young people's articulation of work through the Hindustani word kaam.
