1st Edition

Classed Emotions Navigating Social Class and Emotions in the Urban Indian and Diasporic Contexts

Edited By Anna Romanowicz, Ahana Choudhury Copyright 2026
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how urban spaces encompass, shape and reconfigure the emotional landscapes and socio-cultural specters of their inhabitants. It highlights the arenas in which various politics and strategies of emotional relations are represented, created, enacted and regulated through the inhabitants’ lives and lifestyles. Exploring this, the chapters in the volume bring together and analyze... Read more

1 Introduction: At the Intersections of Emotions, Social Class and Urbanity

Anna Romanowicz and Ahana Choudhury

2 Lived Emotions and Class Spaces: Care and ‘Marriages at Old Age’ in Kolkata

Ahana Choudhury

3 Living in Dog Years: An Autoethnography of a Multi-species Household

Pamidi Hagjer

4 Becoming ‘Serious Men’: Politics of Emotion and the Disciplining of Desires in an Indian Coaching Town

Avinash Ediga

5 Care and Class: Exploring Employer-Employee Relations in Mothering

Sarmistha Das

6 Class, Religion and Caregiving: Inter-species Emotions and Interactions in a New Delhi Neighborhood

Shankarjyoti Saikia

7 Of Old Bodies and New Homes: Filial Care among Transnational Indian Families

Mukta Sharangpani

8 Delhi Night by Car: Middle Class, Emotions and Appropriating Urban Spaces

Anna Romanowicz

Biography

Anna Romanowicz is Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland.

Ahana Choudhury is a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Department of Sociology, Tezpur University, India.