Silje Lyngar Einarsen will present the paper "Sanskrit Memory Politics" in panel 06 History Writing and the Politics of Memory in South Asia, at the SASNET Online Conference Rethinking the Politics of Memory in South Asia. The conference is hosted […]
Since the 1970s, several important critical interventions have been made in the field of anthropology questioning its disciplinary history of complicity with colonialism. Yet methodologically and theoretically, we still encounter unresolved problems of power and representation which continue to reproduce […]
Velkommen til en panelsamtale om jordbrukspolitikk, den bekymringsverdige utviklingen i verdens største demokrati, og solidaritet og motstand. Med utgangspunkt i de pågående masseprotestene i India inviterer Mythopolitics in South Asia eksperter, aktivister og representanter fra politikken og bøndenes interesseorganisasjoner til […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance with Nick Estes, Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss a forthcoming work by Lila Abu-Lughod. More details to be announced later. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lila Abu-Lughod is the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University where she […]
DATE: 13 April 2021. TIME: TBA In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities by Mahmood Mamdani. In this genealogy of political modernity, Mahmood Mamdani argues that the […]
In this Theory from the Margins event, we discuss Selected Writings on Race and Difference, edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. In Selected Writings on Race and Difference, editors Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore gather more than […]
The annual Asianet conference 2021 is hosted by MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, in collaboration with the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies. "The recent decade has witnessed a turn to authoritarianism in many countries in Asia. We […]
Panel at the 2021 Asianet conference: Authoritarianism, populism and new forms of nationalism in Asia. The panel takes as its starting point the political mobilization and styles of political performance that are associated with neo-hindutva and its vision of the Indian […]
The separation of the religious and the political is posing new problems in Europe, while religious populisms emerge in cahoots with neoliberal capitalism and other novel configurations in the global South. Scholars working on religious politics in various regions of […]
