Aradhana Sharma
Biographic Data
| ID | 3621432 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aradhana Sharma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aradhana |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharma |
| SIGNATURE | SHARMA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-5262-5466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 317 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
New Brooms and Old
Arvind Kejriwal is an anti-corruption crusader in India whose technomoral mission is to transform governance through the law, rendering it transparent, noncorrupt, and participatory. He was actively involved in the fight for the Right to Information Act, which became law in 2005. Dissatisfied with the workings of this law, however, Kejriwal organized the India Against Corruption movement to demand a new anti-corruption bill, which failed to pass.…
State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 390 - 411
On Spies, Conspiracies and Intruders
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).When I began my ethnographic res
The righteous and the rightful
Civil society groups today are honored and relied on by governments, as well as tightly regulated and scrutinized for challenging state policies and agencies. In contemporary India, political dynamics of collaboration and confrontation between state and nonstate actors increasingly unfold in legal-social fields, taking "technomoral" forms. Mixing technocratic languages of law and policy with moral pronouncements, these actors assert themselves as…
Epic Fasts and Shallow Spectacles
India recently witnessed a prominent movement against state corruption led by the ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC) group, which came under criticism for utilising the Gandhian hunger strike as a protest tactic. This essay examines the Gandhi and the Gandhianism conjured up by the movement's critics, who dismissed the IAC as either sacrilegiously un-Gandhian or anachronistically Gandhian. I argue that these critics reinstated Gandhi and Gandhianis…
State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn
In 2005, the Indian government passed the Right to Information or RTI Act, which is hailed for inaugurating an era of open, accountable, and truly postcolonial democracy. This article focuses on how the RTI law is being both implemented and subverted in India through ordinary bureaucratic proceduralism and what this tells us about the limits and contrary logic of state transparency in the neoliberal age. India's information freedom law has moorin…
Specifying citizenship
This article uses the lens of development discourse to shed light on subaltern politics of citizenship and rights claims in contemporary India. It argues that battles for development entitlements allow subaltern subjects to meaningfully inhabit and simultaneously alter the contours of legal citizenship, which they have been formally granted by the Indian constitution, but, in effect, denied. Subaltern claims on citizenship, articulated from a pos…
Logics of Empowerment
Bringing much-needed specificity to the study of neoliberalism, 'Logics of Empowerment' fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India
Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle
This article explores the politics and practices of a state-initiated, feminist-conceived empowerment program for rural women in India through the lens of neoliberal governmentality. Structured as a government-organized nongovernmental organization (GONGO), the Mahila Samakhya (MS) program seeks to empower and mobilize marginalized women for self-development and social change. The program's GONGO form and empowerment goals articulate with neolibe…
Globalization and Postcolonial States
This article examines the complex relationship between globalization and the postcolonial state. Challenging the simplistic narrative of the state's decline in the face of globalization, the authors argue that globalization has actually reshaped and reconstituted the state's power in new and often contradictory ways. They explore how postcolonial states engage with global processes, sometimes resisting, sometimes accommodating, and sometimes acti…
Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle
This article explores the politics and practices of a state-initiated, feminist-conceived empowerment program for rural women in India through the lens of neoliberal governmentality. Structured as a government-organized nongovernmental organization (GONGO), the Mahila Samakhya (MS) program seeks to empower and mobilize marginalized women for self-development and social change. The program's GONGO form and empowerment goals articulate with neolibe…
Globalization and Postcolonial States
This article examines the complex relationship between globalization and the postcolonial state. Challenging the simplistic narrative of the state's decline in the face of globalization, the authors argue that globalization has actually reshaped and reconstituted the state's power in new and often contradictory ways. They explore how postcolonial states engage with global processes, sometimes resisting, sometimes accommodating, and sometimes acti…
The righteous and the rightful
Civil society groups today are honored and relied on by governments, as well as tightly regulated and scrutinized for challenging state policies and agencies. In contemporary India, political dynamics of collaboration and confrontation between state and nonstate actors increasingly unfold in legal-social fields, taking "technomoral" forms. Mixing technocratic languages of law and policy with moral pronouncements, these actors assert themselves as…
New Brooms and Old
Arvind Kejriwal is an anti-corruption crusader in India whose technomoral mission is to transform governance through the law, rendering it transparent, noncorrupt, and participatory. He was actively involved in the fight for the Right to Information Act, which became law in 2005. Dissatisfied with the workings of this law, however, Kejriwal organized the India Against Corruption movement to demand a new anti-corruption bill, which failed to pass.…
Specifying citizenship
This article uses the lens of development discourse to shed light on subaltern politics of citizenship and rights claims in contemporary India. It argues that battles for development entitlements allow subaltern subjects to meaningfully inhabit and simultaneously alter the contours of legal citizenship, which they have been formally granted by the Indian constitution, but, in effect, denied. Subaltern claims on citizenship, articulated from a pos…
Epic Fasts and Shallow Spectacles
India recently witnessed a prominent movement against state corruption led by the ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC) group, which came under criticism for utilising the Gandhian hunger strike as a protest tactic. This essay examines the Gandhi and the Gandhianism conjured up by the movement's critics, who dismissed the IAC as either sacrilegiously un-Gandhian or anachronistically Gandhian. I argue that these critics reinstated Gandhi and Gandhianis…
On Spies, Conspiracies and Intruders
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).When I began my ethnographic res
Crossbreeding Institutions, Breeding Struggle
This article explores the politics and practices of a state-initiated, feminist-conceived empowerment program for rural women in India through the lens of neoliberal governmentality. Structured as a government-organized nongovernmental organization (GONGO), the Mahila Samakhya (MS) program seeks to empower and mobilize marginalized women for self-development and social change. The program's GONGO form and empowerment goals articulate with neolibe…
Globalization and Postcolonial States
This article examines the complex relationship between globalization and the postcolonial state. Challenging the simplistic narrative of the state's decline in the face of globalization, the authors argue that globalization has actually reshaped and reconstituted the state's power in new and often contradictory ways. They explore how postcolonial states engage with global processes, sometimes resisting, sometimes accommodating, and sometimes acti…
Logics of Empowerment
Bringing much-needed specificity to the study of neoliberalism, 'Logics of Empowerment' fosters a deeper understanding of development and politics in contemporary India
Specifying citizenship
This article uses the lens of development discourse to shed light on subaltern politics of citizenship and rights claims in contemporary India. It argues that battles for development entitlements allow subaltern subjects to meaningfully inhabit and simultaneously alter the contours of legal citizenship, which they have been formally granted by the Indian constitution, but, in effect, denied. Subaltern claims on citizenship, articulated from a pos…
State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn
In 2005, the Indian government passed the Right to Information or RTI Act, which is hailed for inaugurating an era of open, accountable, and truly postcolonial democracy. This article focuses on how the RTI law is being both implemented and subverted in India through ordinary bureaucratic proceduralism and what this tells us about the limits and contrary logic of state transparency in the neoliberal age. India's information freedom law has moorin…
Epic Fasts and Shallow Spectacles
India recently witnessed a prominent movement against state corruption led by the ‘India Against Corruption’ (IAC) group, which came under criticism for utilising the Gandhian hunger strike as a protest tactic. This essay examines the Gandhi and the Gandhianism conjured up by the movement's critics, who dismissed the IAC as either sacrilegiously un-Gandhian or anachronistically Gandhian. I argue that these critics reinstated Gandhi and Gandhianis…
On Spies, Conspiracies and Intruders
Rasanblaj: n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits; for example, fe yon rasanblaj, do a gathering, a ceremony, a protest).When I began my ethnographic res
The righteous and the rightful
Civil society groups today are honored and relied on by governments, as well as tightly regulated and scrutinized for challenging state policies and agencies. In contemporary India, political dynamics of collaboration and confrontation between state and nonstate actors increasingly unfold in legal-social fields, taking "technomoral" forms. Mixing technocratic languages of law and policy with moral pronouncements, these actors assert themselves as…
State Transparency after the Neoliberal Turn
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 390 - 411
New Brooms and Old
Arvind Kejriwal is an anti-corruption crusader in India whose technomoral mission is to transform governance through the law, rendering it transparent, noncorrupt, and participatory. He was actively involved in the fight for the Right to Information Act, which became law in 2005. Dissatisfied with the workings of this law, however, Kejriwal organized the India Against Corruption movement to demand a new anti-corruption bill, which failed to pass.…
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Law (5 works) · State (computer science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Corporate governance (3 works)