Politics from Below

ISBN-13: 9781032666778 / Twarda / 2023 / 228 str.

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Opis

This book is a collection of essays that question how subalternity is constituted and contested in Indian society.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Theorizing Subaltern Politics

1. Autonomous Domains or Relational Practices? Power and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial India

2. For a Historical Sociology of State-Society Relations in the Study of Subaltern Politics

Part II: Popular Struggles in Contemporary India

3. Against the Current, from Below: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley

4. Subaltern Resistance in the Bhil Heartland: Historical Trajectories and Contemporary Scenarios

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Global Development and Planning at the University of Agder and Research Associate in the Society, Work and Development Institute at the University of Witwatersrand.