Globalisation has been shifting manufacturing from richer to poorer countries for decades. In its initial phase, the global shift of labour-intensive products like garments, shoes and toys was criticised as an exercise in the exploitation of low-wage labour—the so-called ‘low road’ of [...]
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The attention granted to the Grand Renaissance dam in Ethiopia, costing more than $4.3bn, forming Africa’s largest hydroelectric plant and raising controversy with Egypt over access to the waters of the river Nile poses anew some questions of geopolitical economy surrounding multipurpose dam [...]
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Alf Nilsen (University of Agder)
Political Modernity in the Postcolony: A Perspective from India’s Bhil Heartland
4.00-5.30 Thursday 6th September, Merewether 498
Abstract:
How do we conceptualise political modernity in the contemporary postcolony? [...]
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How is subalternity both constituted and contested in and through state-society relations in India today? This is the question at the heart of my new book, Adivasis and the State: Subalternity and Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland, which is being published in the series South Asia in the [...]
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In a recent article in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, I analyse the emergence of authoritarian populism in India under the Modi regime. The article is part of a special issue that I have co-edited on the rise of the right and democratic crises in Asia that includes contributions by Vedi [...]
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“Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we shall redeem our pledge,” said Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, in his speech to the country’s Constituent Assembly as the midnight hour approached on the fourteenth of August 1947. The following day, [...]
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On 1 January, 2014, the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act (LARR) – India’s new law on land acquisition, rehabilitation and resettlement – came into force after a particularly long and tortuous trajectory through the country’s [...]
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A massive, nationwide strike caused major disruption to India’s economy on 2 September, popularised as Bharat Bandh (literally ‘India closed’ in Hindi/Sanskrit). Some unions have claimed this was the largest general strike in history, with up to 150 million workers involved and costs to [...]
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