{"title":"Shameem Black","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShameem Black\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the vibrant intersections of tradition and modernity, with a particular focus on Indian arts and culture. Her work offers insightful perspectives that challenge and expand our understanding of cultural identity and creativity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful, richly detailed narratives that blend scholarly insight with accessible prose, making complex cultural themes resonate with authenticity and depth. Her writings invite reflection on how culture adapts and thrives in a changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"flexible-india-by-shameem-black-9780231206037","title":"Flexible India","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYoga has offered the Indian state unprecedented opportunities for global, media-savvy political performance. Under Modi, it has promoted yoga tourism and staged mass yoga sessions, and Indian officials have proposed yoga as a national solution to a range of social problems, from reducing rape to curing cancer. But as yoga has gone global, its cultural meanings have spiralled far and wide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFlexible India\u003c\/em\u003e, Shameem Black travels into unexpected realms of popular culture in English, from India, its diaspora, and the West to explore and critique yoga as an exercise in cultural power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her own experience and her readings of political spectacles, yoga murder mysteries, court cases, art installations, and digital media, Black shows how yoga's imaginative power supports diverse political and cultural ends. Although many cultural practices in today's India exemplify \"culture wars\" between liberal and conservative agendas, \u003cem\u003eFlexible India\u003c\/em\u003e argues that visions of yoga offer a \"culture peace\" that conceals, without resolving, such tensions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis flexibility allows states, corporations, and individuals to think of themselves as welcoming and tolerant while still, in many cases, supporting practices that make minority populations increasingly vulnerable. However, as Black shows, yoga can also be imagined in ways that offer new tools for critiquing hierarchical structures of power and race, Hindu nationalism, cultural appropriation, and self-help capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470620147948,"sku":"9780231206037","price":66.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780231206037-flexible-india.jpg?v=1775222936"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/shameem-black.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}