Sudden Selves:
'Personality Development', Tupperware and the Making of New Labour in North India
Sanjay Srivastava
Institute of Economic Growth
New Delhi
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Across a range of large and small towns in India, a vast number of privately run ‘coaching institutes' – varying from hole-in-the-wall operators to multi-million Rupee corporations – offer ‘Personality Development' courses to eager participants that include students, housewives, business-people and company employees. ‘PD', as it is popularly known, has become an integral part of the various processes of economic, cultural, and social transformations that have been visible for the past two decades or so. It is seen as an indispensable part of acquiring a 'cosmopolitan' personality, one that is necessary for economic as well as social advancement. An allied activity is the proliferation of Multi-Level Marketing schemes such as that promoted by Tupperware. This paper is based on fieldwork at PD centres and among distributors and managers of the Tupperware Company. It explores certain ideas of transformation among young people and middle-aged women in the context of traditional structures of family and gender norms.
Date:
2nd April 2014, Wednesday
2nd April 2014, Wednesday
Time:
02.30 PM
02.30 PM
FSI Hall
South Asian University
South Asian University
Akbar Bhawan
Chanakyapuri
New Delhi 110021
New Delhi 110021
ALL ARE CORDIALLY INVITED
(Please have your mobile telephones switched off during lecture and discussion)
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