Vastu compliance: the gentrification of India’s sacred spaces and the mobilities of ideas.
This article examines the mobilities of ideas in the context of sacred spaces in India and transnational flows of trends and services. Mobile subjects on the global stage are still bound by immobile concerns, such as their homes. In this article I examine the anxieties of India’s globally mobile mid...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 42; no. 14; pp. 2336 - 2351 |
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