New Subaltern Politics

Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance In Contemporary India

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9780199457557

Publication date:

22/06/2015

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328 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Price: 850.00 INR

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Publication date:

22/06/2015

Paperback

328 pages

216.0x140.0mm

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

New Subaltern Politics presents a critical dialogue between the conceptual and analytical legacies of Subaltern Studies and the evolving forms of hegemony and resistance in contemporary India. From the struggles of the urban poor in Gujarat to the activism of sexual subalterns in eastern India and the mobilization of artisanal fishing communities in Tamil Nadu, the essays in this volume cover a diverse range of ongoing struggles against dispossession, disenfranchisement, and stigma that are unfolding in neoliberal India.  

Suitable for: Primary Market: Libraries  Apart from institutions, libraries, the work will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers in South Asian Studies, social movements studies, political sociology, political ethnography and anthropology.    Secondary Market:  Professionals-Researchers Working in the grassroots, policy makers, journalists.

Rights:  World Rights

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Table of contents

Acknowledgements 
List of Abbreviations
Introduction 
Reconceptualizing Subaltern Politics in
Contemporary India
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy
 
I ENGAGING GRAMSCI
1. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society
Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics 
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
 
2. Rethinking Hegemony 
Caste, Class, and Political Subjectivities among
Informal Workers in Ahmedabad
Manali Desai
3. Recovering Caste Privilege 
The Politics of Meritocracy at the Indian Institutes
of Technology
Ajantha Subramanian
 
II IMAGINATION, FAITH, AFFECT
 
4. Representing the Adivasi 
Limits and Possibilities of Postcolonial Theory
Rashmi Varma
 
5. Can the Subaltern Be Secular? 
Negotiating Catholic Faith, Identity, and Authority
in Coastal Tamil Nadu
Aparna Sundar
 
6. Affective Politics and the Sexual Subaltern 
Lesbian Activism in Eastern India
Srila Roy
 
III CASTE AND COMMUNITY IN CIVIL-POLITICAL SOCIETY
 
7. Theorizing Thervoy 
Subaltern Studies and Dalit Praxis in India's
Land Wars
Luisa Steur
 
8. 'Community' and the Politics of Caste, Class, and
Representation in the Singur Movement, West Bengal 
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
 
9. On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India 
Subir Sinha
 
POSTSCRIPT
Subaltern Studies 
Then and Now
David Arnold
 
Bibliography
Index

Notes on Editors and Contributors 

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Features

  • Wide empirical range-diversity of case studies Orientation towards conceptual innovation Critical dialogue and contributions from founding member of the Subaltern Studies project Relevance to a number of contemporary issues pertaining to the Global South

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Table of contents

Acknowledgements 
List of Abbreviations
Introduction 
Reconceptualizing Subaltern Politics in
Contemporary India
Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy
 
I ENGAGING GRAMSCI
1. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society
Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics 
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
 
2. Rethinking Hegemony 
Caste, Class, and Political Subjectivities among
Informal Workers in Ahmedabad
Manali Desai
3. Recovering Caste Privilege 
The Politics of Meritocracy at the Indian Institutes
of Technology
Ajantha Subramanian
 
II IMAGINATION, FAITH, AFFECT
 
4. Representing the Adivasi 
Limits and Possibilities of Postcolonial Theory
Rashmi Varma
 
5. Can the Subaltern Be Secular? 
Negotiating Catholic Faith, Identity, and Authority
in Coastal Tamil Nadu
Aparna Sundar
 
6. Affective Politics and the Sexual Subaltern 
Lesbian Activism in Eastern India
Srila Roy
 
III CASTE AND COMMUNITY IN CIVIL-POLITICAL SOCIETY
 
7. Theorizing Thervoy 
Subaltern Studies and Dalit Praxis in India's
Land Wars
Luisa Steur
 
8. 'Community' and the Politics of Caste, Class, and
Representation in the Singur Movement, West Bengal 
Kenneth Bo Nielsen
 
9. On the Edge of Civil Society in Contemporary India 
Subir Sinha
 
POSTSCRIPT
Subaltern Studies 
Then and Now
David Arnold
 
Bibliography
Index

Notes on Editors and Contributors 

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