"(i) The volume revolves around the theme 'inclusive oppositions' in social sciences that address the issue of making of distinctions and create artificial dichotomies and dualistic view of society. It is set against the currents of systematic reduction of anthropodiversity and psychodiversity, which appears as a pathology of the current neo-liberalist and colonialist model of development. The volume is an attempt to overcome the colonial tendencies and forces to 'standardize' and 'homogenize' various categories and institutions in society by establishing structural relationality and intersectionality between the parts of the whole ecosystem where in the human and non-human intersect and interact. (ii) The volume brings together a unique collaboration inthe field of Cultural Psychology and offers the intellectual tools to grasp how a syncretic understanding of Identity and Culture unfolds, particularly in the key domain of gender. The chapters and commentaries uncover cultural dynamics and identity formation from a specific location, the region of Kerala in south-western India. The chapters and commentaries in this volume illustrates that Kerala is a cultural micro-cosmos, in which gender, identity, religion, ethnicity, caste, global market and tradition intersect to create complex and multiple subjects that do not fit in binary categorizations. (iii) The compiled volume will be of great value to scholars, researchers and academicians in Social Sciences, particularly Cultural psychology, Social psychology, Sociology, Social Work, Political Science, Philosophy, Anthropology and Economics"--
Introduction: Identity and Culture: Towards A Synthetic Understanding of
Two Nebulous Concepts; Antony Palackal, Nandita Chaudhary, Giuseppina
Marsico, and Jaan Valsiner.
Section I. Ethnic Identity Construction Processes, Politics And Plurality.
Chapter
1. Transforming Oral Narratives into Written Discourse for a Wide
Audience; Anitha Devi Pillai.
Chapter
2. Cultural Identity Challenges and Globalization; Sanaz
Sadeghibaghdadabadi.
Chapter
3. Ethnic Identity and Political Power Between Tribal Groups in
Kerala, India and Western Bahr, El-Ghazal, South Sudan: A Comparative
Analysis; Wurok Chan Malith and Sobha B. Nair.
Chapter
4. Gendered River: Adivasi and Dominant Identities in the
Mythological Renderings of the Thirunelli River; Wayanad, Kerala, Neeraja K.
S.
Chapter
5. Tribal Women Identity and Eco-Development Programs: A Case of
Paliyan Tribes in Kerala; Pushpam M.
Chapter
6. Commentary 1: Voicing, Silencing, Ventriloquizing and Speaking On
Behalf of: Different Ways of Social Sciences; Luca Tateo.
Chapter
7. Commentary 2: Reflections About Cultural and Ethnic Identities
From Dynamic and Dialogical Perspectives; Ramiro Gonzalez Rial.
Section II. Gender Identity And Community Dynamics.
Chapter
8. Women Action for Ecology Rebuilding the Identity Through
Agriculture; Hilalulla K. B, Ursula V. A, P. B., and Shankar Narayan.
Chapter
9. Gender and Identity Issues of Women Entrepreneurs of Kerala; Sneha
Gopeekrishna.
Chapter
10. Pretty Women Under the Veil of Secrecy: Vulnerability, Violence
and Gender Inequality of Female Sex Workers in Kerala; Aroline K. Tom.
Chapter
11. Development of Identity Among Adolescent Girls in a Gujarati
Community in Delhi, India; Dipjyoti Konwar.
Chapter
12. Absence, Agony, and Agency: The Experience of Gulf Wives of
Low-End Job Migrants in Kerala; Antony Palackal and Sunil Kumar P.
Chapter
13. Commentary 3: Psycho-Cultural Explorations of Gender in Everyday
Life: Gender Identity and Community Dynamics in India; Demet slambay.
Section III. Contemporary Challenges Related Togender And Ethnic Identity.
Chapter
14. Friends with Benefits Among College Students: A Cultural Change?
Pramod S K.
Chapter
15. Changing Identities and Hegemonic Masculinities: A Study of Nair
Women in Central Kerala; Lekha N B.
Chapter
16. Is Money Worth Absence? A Sociological Inquest into Disguised
Gender Inequality; Rashmi M. and Lekshmi V. Nair.
Chapter
17. Distress Marriages in Kerala; Shani S. S.
Chapter
18. Commentary 4: Cultural Changes between Pluralism, Innovation and
Conservatism; Emiliana Mangone.
Chapter
19. Commentary 5: Women in Kerala: A Commentary; Shraddha Kapoor.
Section IV. Minority Identity And The Mainstream.
Chapter
20. Gender, Identity and Malayali Muslim Women: Towards a Decolonial
Critique; Muhammadali P. Kasim.
Chapter
21. Intersex and the Constraints of Sex and Gender: A Silent
Genocide; Neeraja Sajan.
Chapter
22. Institutions and Intersections: Identity of Woman in Muslim
Religion; Bhargavi S. S.
Chapter
23. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Youth; Sajna Sajan
and Jesline Maria Martin Mamen.
Chapter
24. Transgender Identity and Policy Discourses; Ligin K. L. and Nisha
Jolly Nelson.
Chapter
25. Commentary 6: Non-Normative Identities and Bodies Crossing From
Stigma to Dignity; Ana Karina Canguēś-Campinho.
Chapter
26. Epilogue: The Study of Identity and Culture: Future Directions;
Luca Tateo.
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