02001nam a22002297a 4500 20250627145845.0 250627b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781032779614 : Brijwasi Book Distributors : H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi : BW/000212 : 16/05/2025 321.8 HAR Harikrishnan, S. Social Spaces and the Public Sphere / S. Harikrishnan. , New York : Routledge , 2023. xvii, 234p. : 24cm. 906 What can social spaces tell us about social relations in society? How do everyday social spaces like teashops, reading rooms, and libraries reify?or subvert?dominant social structures like caste and gender? These are the questions that this book explores through a study of modern Kerala. Using archival material, discourse analysis, participant observation, and personal interviews, this book traces the transformation of public spaces through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The volume focuses on how "modernity" has also been a struggle for access to public spaces, and non-institutional spaces like teashops, markets, public roads, temple grounds, reading rooms, and libraries have all been crucial to how political culture was shaped, and how dominant hegemonies?caste, class, or capital?have been challenged. It suggests that the secular public sphere that emerged in the last century in Kerala was a result of the constant negotiations between conflicting ideas which were put to test in these social spaces. At a time when digital spaces are fast replacing physical ones, this book is a timely reminder of the struggles that led to the emergence of secular public spaces in Kerala. It contributes to similar studies on public space that have emerged from other parts of the world over the last decades. Social Spaces Public Sphere Social relations S. Harikrishnan BOOK 64001 64001 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-06-27 Brijwasi Book Distributors 906.00 1 321.8 HAR 30952 2026-09-16 11:37:02 2026-09-01 2025-06-27 BOOK