Posts tagged Subaltern Studies

Paper: The Construction of...

By Prerna on October 29, 2009
Paper: The Construction of Indian-Hindu nationalism and Implications of India’s Future as a Postcolonial State

This paper is a critique of International Relations and an approach to the question of India using an alternative nationalism model. Specifically, this is a Subaltern Studies approach to doing International Relations, which serves the purpose of discarding the notion of India as a homogeneous... [+]

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29Oct

Critique: Subaltern Immigrants

By Prerna on April 19, 2009
Critique: Subaltern Immigrants

Odem 2008 Subaltern Immigrants The status of millions of undocumented workers from Mexico and Latin America in the United States poses a serious challenge to the country’s founding myth as an immigrant nation. They form an integral part of the US labour force, but exist on... [+]

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19Apr

Journal of Peasant Studies - Peasant...

By Prerna on September 23, 2008
Journal of Peasant Studies – Peasant Pasts: History and Memory in Western India

This book review should appear in the upcoming edition of the Journal of Peasant Studies. I cannot publish the whole bit here even though it is my work, since I signed over licensing rights but it should be available through your college databases. I don’t know... [+]

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23Sep

American Association of Geographers...

By Prerna on September 22, 2008
American Association of Geographers – Call for Papers

After these god-awful, life-stopping exams, I have to get down to several pending journal articles. One of them is for an Australian-based journal called Still. There are several AAG Call for Papers that seem to go with the topic and other half-completed works, so I... [+]

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22Sep

The Politics of Waiting - Asylum

By Prerna on March 4, 2008
The Politics of Waiting – Asylum

There’s a really good discussion on asylum circulating one of my academic listserves. Not many know that I study critical geography and subaltern studies, and there is some space in those fields to speak about immigration. The perspectives and philosophy is unlike what one would... [+]

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04Mar