Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa

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Shantanu Kulshreshth
Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space, 2024

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Kulshreshth, S. (2024). Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa. Environment &Amp; Planning. D, Society and Space.

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Kulshreshth, Shantanu. “Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the Cultural Production of Work in a North Indian Madrasa.” Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space (2024).

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Kulshreshth, Shantanu. “Kaam: Youth, Religiosity, and the Cultural Production of Work in a North Indian Madrasa.” Environment &Amp; Planning. D, Society and Space, 2024.

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@article{shantanu2024a,
  title = {Kaam: Youth, religiosity, and the cultural production of work in a North Indian Madrasa},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space},
  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.