• ISBN13: 9789351503040
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: February 15, 2015
• Pages: 324
• Original Price: INR 995.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 467 grams

<p class="ABOUTBOOKAI"> A refreshing read in terms of its take on the issue of hate speech, hurt, and politics of it.</strong><br /> <br /> The currency of &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; as a claim to, and pretext for, political correctionism&mdash;and often taking recourse to the logic of the antipopular as anti-State&mdash;has erected a machinery of censorship governed by the economies and excesses of a &ldquo;marketplace of outrage.&rdquo; This volume seeks to map this ready vocabulary of a potential victimhood and its consequent excuse for repressive regimes of State vigilantism. &nbsp;<br /> <br /> It investigates the ways in which such &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; is expressed and abetted by the State or its actors, staged by popular media and often subsumed as public opinion. It builds the necessary structure of argument around the idea of &ldquo;hurt&rdquo; with reference to recent political events, the history of sentimental mobilizations and various kinds of censorship attempts in India.<br /> <div>&nbsp;</div>