Susegad: Difference between revisions

'''''Susegad''''' is a concept associated with the [[Indian state]] of [[Goa]]. Derived from the [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] word {{lang|pt|sossegado}} ("quiet"), it is often viewed as the relaxed, laid-back [[Attitude (psychology)|attitude]] towards life that is said to have existed historically in [[Goa]], a former [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese territory]]. ''[[Footprint Travel Guides]]'' describes it as "a relaxed attitude and enjoyment of life to the fullest".<ref>{{cite book|author1=Victoria McCulloch|author2=David Stott|title=Goa (with Mumbai) Footprint Focus Guide|date=2013|publisher=[[Footprint Travel Guides]]|isbn=9781909268425|page=5}}</ref> What Susegad actually means, according to most experts, is a contented form of [[joie de vivre]] existent in the state. As described by one ''[[Sunday Times]]'' writer, Goa is "South Asia's [[Latin Quarter, Paris|Latin Quarter]]: indulgent, tolerant, capricious, steeped in a tropical lassitude and wedded to the sea".<ref name="Stewart">Stanley Stewart, [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/india/article565695.ece "Goa's not gone – It’s just hiding"], ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', 11 September 2005.</ref>

The concept may also carry negative connotations such as "indolence"<ref name="Stewart"/> and in recent years it has been suggested that the relaxed Goan culture of ''susegad'' has given way in the face of modern stresses.<ref>Aditi Pai, [http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/story/Dark+side+of+the+sun/1/6279.html "Dark side of the sun"], ''[[India Today]]'', 7 April 2008.</ref><ref>Sadhvi Sharma, [http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/4939/ "The party’s over in India’s capital of fun"], ''[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]'', 3 April 2008.</ref>  In addition, it is an example of what some [[ethnographer]]s point out{{Weasel inline|date=April 2021}}—i.e., "tourism representations of the Orient as the west's exotic, timeless and authentic pleasure periphery are embedded with a [[Postcolonialism|colonial discourse]] that perpetuates the west's hegemonic exploitation of the Orient".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bandyopadhyay|first1=Ranjan|editor1-last=Burns|editor1-first=Peter M.|editor2-last=Lester|editor2-first=Jo-Anne|editor3-last=Bibbing|editor3-first=Lyn|title=Tourism and Visual Culture Methods and cases|date=2010|publisher=CAB International|isbn=9781845936129|page=201|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3JLdDbPbJ0C&q=Susegad&pg=PA200}}</ref>{{Missing page|date=April 2021}}