Arnab Roy Chowdhury
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 189350 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arnab Roy Chowdhury |
| NOMBRES | Arnab Roy |
| APELLIDO | Chowdhury |
| FIRMA | CHOWDHURY A R |
| AFILIACIONES | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6626-3936 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 113 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Bipolar politics and permissible violence
In India, a communitarian society, concerns over public-truth disputes are widespread. The Indian National Congress (INC) and allies promoted secular-liberal nationalism but, eventually, they failed, as they lacked grassroots connections. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) capitalised on Hindu-majoritarian religious sentiments, politicised the grassroots and mobilised them, and formed the government – first in the mid-1990s, for a relati…
Environment, space, and identity in the Eurasian region
‘Ostracized by law’
The British enacted the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871 to control Indian society after the rebellion against colonial rule in 1857. By means of the Act, the British depicted entire communities and groups as hereditary criminals – without any substantive legal or incriminating evidence – using the concept of race, used in anthropology and anthropometry, and of caste. They termed the groups ‘tribes’ instead of ‘castes’ to evoke qualities of wildness a…
South Asian' Diaspora Theatre in Sydney
The Nautanki Theatre Company (Nautanki) has been actively performing drama in Sydney since 2012, and it has been organising the South Asian Theatre Festival since 2016. We study their discourses, cultural politics, and practices; conduct an ethnographic observation of performances; and interview performers, organisers, and survey audiences of the 2019 theatre festival in-depth. We contend that by hosting performances and events, Nautanki creates …
Resisting ‘extractive capital’
This study compares adivasi movements against two mining projects commissioned in India by Vedanta Resources, a London-based Indian mining corporation. One is the resistance of the Dongria Kondh to the bauxite mining and aluminium processing projects at Niyamgiri. The movement succeeded when the Supreme Court of India scrapped the project in 2013. The other is the movement of the Binjhal against a gold mining project at Sonakhan. The project was …
Creating Pathways to Opportunity
In coordination with the Government of Bangladesh, the United Nations Children’s Fund and Save the Children International have been conducting a non-formal educational programme for the children of Rohingya refugees since 2017. Domestic partner non-governmental organizations are implementing the initiative. The purpose of this study was to examine the policy and the institutional arrangements and determine how they may influence the inclusion of …
The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
More than 1 million Rohingya have fled Myanmar to live in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar district. The government of Bangladesh has been praised worldwide for sheltering them, but this enormous influx has strained its limited resources. As the host communities struggle with the Rohingya for control over, and access to, the scarce natural resources on which they depend for their livelihood – land, water, agriculture and forests – tension and co…
Killing nature—killing us
The Shor people are protesting the ongoing mining of coal in the southern Kemerovo region of Siberia, while the Izhma Komi people are contesting the extraction of oil in the northern Komi Republic (Northwestern Federal District). The theory of "political opportunities" states that movements emerge when opportune moments create spaces for these, but we argue that in illiberal spaces, movements emerge against "threats" in an ever-decreasing politic…
"A Critique of "Speculative Commodities
The value of many natural resources is not fixed; it depends on factors both intrinsic and external to the commodity; such is the case of precious stones. These commodities are termed “speculative commodities.” Here, I take the example of gemstones and conceptually trace and analyse the process of their commodification, with the help of Marxist theory and its various derivatives. The process of commodification and value addition that these resour…
Treading the border of (il)legality
In Myanmar, the state and the Buddhist-majority civil society have long been hostile to the people known as the Rohingya. The Muslim Rohingya have lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but the Myanmar government, labelling them “illegal Bengali migrants,” has rendered them stateless under the 1982 Citizenship Law. The recent “democratisation” of Myanmar facilitated neoliberal expansion in the resource-rich Rakhine and intensified discrimination a…
Women in Thailand’s gem and jewellery industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics
Rio Tinto had been developing a diamond mining project in Madhya Pradesh for a decade when in 2017 it hastily abandoned the project. We analyse this counterintuitive exit through an ethnographic approach nested within a qualitative case study framework. We argue that the exit was caused by multi-scalar politics. Local protests over livelihood and labour issues –pre-emptively rearticulated by regional civil society groups through an ecological ‘fr…
Against Unjust Laws
In Myanmar, the Citizenship Law of 1982 made the Rohingya "stateless." The Rohingya consider Bangladesh a haven and take to the sea on rickety boats to cross borders. If they do, however, they become "illegal migrants." Considering such laws unjust, local and international NGOs have been leading struggles to uphold the Rohingyas' rights in Bangladesh. This article registers the struggles of these organizations against the production of illegality…
Neoliberal Entrenchment in India
An 'un-imagined community
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted religious ethnic minorities of the contemporary world. They have been persecuted in Myanmar since the post-coup military regime came to power in 1962. What explains this brutal pursuit of violence against a minority? In answering this question, I trace the genealogy and the ethnogenesis of the Rohingya in Myanmar in a longue durée through an analysis of extant data, both historical and contemporary, and…
Political Communication and Mobilisation
Hirashasan
International-domestic linkages in a developing-country context
Since 1978, the Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar and taking refuge in Bangladesh. The state of Bangladesh is not a signatory to the Geneva Convention and does not recognize refugee rights, but the initial experiences with the Rohingya refugee population led the government to create a temporary and ad hoc domestic policy advisory and refugee management system, which eventually became highly politicized. There was also some degree of slow “extern…
‘Revisiting Naxalbari’
Undervalued Dissent
State Formation from Below
This paper demonstrates a case of state formation in South Asia that emerged from below. In India, the state of Maharashtra has had a history of social movements by people evicted by dam construction dating back to the 1920s. The cumulative effect of these movements led Maharashtra to enact a law in 1976 to empower dam evictees, thus establishing the first rehabilitation law in India. These movements democratised the state and transformed its leg…
In the Realm of the Diamond King
From being "the cradle" of raw diamonds in the world in the eighteenth century, India has turned into an insignificant producer of rough diamonds today. Yet, even now, the indigenous Gonds mine diamonds artisanally in a remote location in central India, largely hidden away from public vision. This article presents an exposition of artisanal diamond mining in central India from the humanistic tradition in geography to illuminate the "realm" of the…
The coal nation
Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters
The geophagous peasants of Kalahandi
International-domestic linkages in a developing-country context
Since 1978, the Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar and taking refuge in Bangladesh. The state of Bangladesh is not a signatory to the Geneva Convention and does not recognize refugee rights, but the initial experiences with the Rohingya refugee population led the government to create a temporary and ad hoc domestic policy advisory and refugee management system, which eventually became highly politicized. There was also some degree of slow “extern…
An 'un-imagined community
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted religious ethnic minorities of the contemporary world. They have been persecuted in Myanmar since the post-coup military regime came to power in 1962. What explains this brutal pursuit of violence against a minority? In answering this question, I trace the genealogy and the ethnogenesis of the Rohingya in Myanmar in a longue durée through an analysis of extant data, both historical and contemporary, and…
Deluge amidst conflict
In recent years, there has been a surge in hydropower projects in the North-east part of India, constructed under the aegis of the national state. Foregrounding this fact, our article conceptualizes North-east India as a ‘region’ that is not only physiographic in nature but also discursively constructed by history, culture and politics, in the colonial and postcolonial times. We argue that when large developmental projects such as hydropower proj…
Against Unjust Laws
In Myanmar, the Citizenship Law of 1982 made the Rohingya "stateless." The Rohingya consider Bangladesh a haven and take to the sea on rickety boats to cross borders. If they do, however, they become "illegal migrants." Considering such laws unjust, local and international NGOs have been leading struggles to uphold the Rohingyas' rights in Bangladesh. This article registers the struggles of these organizations against the production of illegality…
In the Realm of the Diamond King
From being "the cradle" of raw diamonds in the world in the eighteenth century, India has turned into an insignificant producer of rough diamonds today. Yet, even now, the indigenous Gonds mine diamonds artisanally in a remote location in central India, largely hidden away from public vision. This article presents an exposition of artisanal diamond mining in central India from the humanistic tradition in geography to illuminate the "realm" of the…
Contested State-craft' on the Frontiers of the Indian Nation
Drawing on scholars like Scott and Suan, it can be argued that a 'hills-valley divide' has prevailed in Manipur from the colonial period. The Kuki tribes who inhabit Manipur's hilly regions are underdeveloped compared to the politically and economically powerful Meiteis who inhabit its valleys. The postcolonial central and state government policies have failed to respond to local problems, which have created a regional imbalance and have sharpene…
The coal nation
Repertoires of Contention’ in Movements Against Hydropower Projects in India
Applying Charles Tilly's notion of ‘repertoires of contention’, this paper discusses strategies and modes of protest carried out by the movements against hydropower projects in India. It compares the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA; Save Narmada Movement) in Madhya Pradesh and the Shramik Mukthi Dal (SMD; Labour Liberation Party) led mobilisations against hydropower projects in Maharashtra. It explains the more dramatic repertoires deployed by NBA as…
The geophagous peasants of Kalahandi
Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics
Rio Tinto had been developing a diamond mining project in Madhya Pradesh for a decade when in 2017 it hastily abandoned the project. We analyse this counterintuitive exit through an ethnographic approach nested within a qualitative case study framework. We argue that the exit was caused by multi-scalar politics. Local protests over livelihood and labour issues –pre-emptively rearticulated by regional civil society groups through an ecological ‘fr…
The Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
More than 1 million Rohingya have fled Myanmar to live in Bangladesh, mostly in Cox’s Bazar district. The government of Bangladesh has been praised worldwide for sheltering them, but this enormous influx has strained its limited resources. As the host communities struggle with the Rohingya for control over, and access to, the scarce natural resources on which they depend for their livelihood – land, water, agriculture and forests – tension and co…
Killing nature—killing us
The Shor people are protesting the ongoing mining of coal in the southern Kemerovo region of Siberia, while the Izhma Komi people are contesting the extraction of oil in the northern Komi Republic (Northwestern Federal District). The theory of "political opportunities" states that movements emerge when opportune moments create spaces for these, but we argue that in illiberal spaces, movements emerge against "threats" in an ever-decreasing politic…
Treading the border of (il)legality
In Myanmar, the state and the Buddhist-majority civil society have long been hostile to the people known as the Rohingya. The Muslim Rohingya have lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but the Myanmar government, labelling them “illegal Bengali migrants,” has rendered them stateless under the 1982 Citizenship Law. The recent “democratisation” of Myanmar facilitated neoliberal expansion in the resource-rich Rakhine and intensified discrimination a…
Hirashasan
Subaltern Studies
This entry tracks the “genealogy” and “archaeology” of subaltern studies, which has emerged as a subdisciplinary and alternative historical field over the last three decades. It broadly covers the work of Ranajit Guha, the chief proponent of the “school,” along with works by other eminent “members” like Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Starting with the social context and debates within which the idea of suba…
South Asian' Diaspora Theatre in Sydney
The Nautanki Theatre Company (Nautanki) has been actively performing drama in Sydney since 2012, and it has been organising the South Asian Theatre Festival since 2016. We study their discourses, cultural politics, and practices; conduct an ethnographic observation of performances; and interview performers, organisers, and survey audiences of the 2019 theatre festival in-depth. We contend that by hosting performances and events, Nautanki creates …
"A Critique of "Speculative Commodities
The value of many natural resources is not fixed; it depends on factors both intrinsic and external to the commodity; such is the case of precious stones. These commodities are termed “speculative commodities.” Here, I take the example of gemstones and conceptually trace and analyse the process of their commodification, with the help of Marxist theory and its various derivatives. The process of commodification and value addition that these resour…
Women in Thailand’s gem and jewellery industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
State Formation from Below
This paper demonstrates a case of state formation in South Asia that emerged from below. In India, the state of Maharashtra has had a history of social movements by people evicted by dam construction dating back to the 1920s. The cumulative effect of these movements led Maharashtra to enact a law in 1976 to empower dam evictees, thus establishing the first rehabilitation law in India. These movements democratised the state and transformed its leg…
Decommissioning dams in India
With the ruefully anticipated breakdown of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala as the central issue, this article debates the decommissioning of large dams in India. Drawing on other examples of dam breakdown and decommissioning cases from India and the USA, the author argues that dams that have failed to deliver on their promises or are in an unsafe condition should be selectively decommissioned. Démantèlement de barrages en Inde : évaluation compara…
Water Policy Processes in India
Mumbai fables
Ho-Fung Hung, Protest with Chinese Characteristics
Deluge amidst conflict
In recent years, there has been a surge in hydropower projects in the North-east part of India, constructed under the aegis of the national state. Foregrounding this fact, our article conceptualizes North-east India as a ‘region’ that is not only physiographic in nature but also discursively constructed by history, culture and politics, in the colonial and postcolonial times. We argue that when large developmental projects such as hydropower proj…
Decommissioning dams in India
With the ruefully anticipated breakdown of the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala as the central issue, this article debates the decommissioning of large dams in India. Drawing on other examples of dam breakdown and decommissioning cases from India and the USA, the author argues that dams that have failed to deliver on their promises or are in an unsafe condition should be selectively decommissioned. Démantèlement de barrages en Inde : évaluation compara…
Civil society and democratization in India
There has been a surge of books and scholarship on civil society, social capital and democratization in the last two decades. In their famous study on Italy, Putnam, Leonardi and Nanetti (Making De
Repertoires of Contention’ in Movements Against Hydropower Projects in India
Applying Charles Tilly's notion of ‘repertoires of contention’, this paper discusses strategies and modes of protest carried out by the movements against hydropower projects in India. It compares the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA; Save Narmada Movement) in Madhya Pradesh and the Shramik Mukthi Dal (SMD; Labour Liberation Party) led mobilisations against hydropower projects in Maharashtra. It explains the more dramatic repertoires deployed by NBA as…
The geophagous peasants of Kalahandi
Subaltern Studies
This entry tracks the “genealogy” and “archaeology” of subaltern studies, which has emerged as a subdisciplinary and alternative historical field over the last three decades. It broadly covers the work of Ranajit Guha, the chief proponent of the “school,” along with works by other eminent “members” like Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Starting with the social context and debates within which the idea of suba…
Contested State-craft' on the Frontiers of the Indian Nation
Drawing on scholars like Scott and Suan, it can be argued that a 'hills-valley divide' has prevailed in Manipur from the colonial period. The Kuki tribes who inhabit Manipur's hilly regions are underdeveloped compared to the politically and economically powerful Meiteis who inhabit its valleys. The postcolonial central and state government policies have failed to respond to local problems, which have created a regional imbalance and have sharpene…
The coal nation
Amites Mukhopadhyay, Living with Disasters
‘Revisiting Naxalbari’
Undervalued Dissent
State Formation from Below
This paper demonstrates a case of state formation in South Asia that emerged from below. In India, the state of Maharashtra has had a history of social movements by people evicted by dam construction dating back to the 1920s. The cumulative effect of these movements led Maharashtra to enact a law in 1976 to empower dam evictees, thus establishing the first rehabilitation law in India. These movements democratised the state and transformed its leg…
In the Realm of the Diamond King
From being "the cradle" of raw diamonds in the world in the eighteenth century, India has turned into an insignificant producer of rough diamonds today. Yet, even now, the indigenous Gonds mine diamonds artisanally in a remote location in central India, largely hidden away from public vision. This article presents an exposition of artisanal diamond mining in central India from the humanistic tradition in geography to illuminate the "realm" of the…
Political Communication and Mobilisation
Hirashasan
International-domestic linkages in a developing-country context
Since 1978, the Rohingya have been fleeing Myanmar and taking refuge in Bangladesh. The state of Bangladesh is not a signatory to the Geneva Convention and does not recognize refugee rights, but the initial experiences with the Rohingya refugee population led the government to create a temporary and ad hoc domestic policy advisory and refugee management system, which eventually became highly politicized. There was also some degree of slow “extern…
An 'un-imagined community
The Rohingya are one of the most persecuted religious ethnic minorities of the contemporary world. They have been persecuted in Myanmar since the post-coup military regime came to power in 1962. What explains this brutal pursuit of violence against a minority? In answering this question, I trace the genealogy and the ethnogenesis of the Rohingya in Myanmar in a longue durée through an analysis of extant data, both historical and contemporary, and…
Extractive capital and multi-scalar environmental politics
Rio Tinto had been developing a diamond mining project in Madhya Pradesh for a decade when in 2017 it hastily abandoned the project. We analyse this counterintuitive exit through an ethnographic approach nested within a qualitative case study framework. We argue that the exit was caused by multi-scalar politics. Local protests over livelihood and labour issues –pre-emptively rearticulated by regional civil society groups through an ecological ‘fr…
Against Unjust Laws
In Myanmar, the Citizenship Law of 1982 made the Rohingya "stateless." The Rohingya consider Bangladesh a haven and take to the sea on rickety boats to cross borders. If they do, however, they become "illegal migrants." Considering such laws unjust, local and international NGOs have been leading struggles to uphold the Rohingyas' rights in Bangladesh. This article registers the struggles of these organizations against the production of illegality…
Neoliberal Entrenchment in India
Treading the border of (il)legality
In Myanmar, the state and the Buddhist-majority civil society have long been hostile to the people known as the Rohingya. The Muslim Rohingya have lived in Rakhine state for centuries, but the Myanmar government, labelling them “illegal Bengali migrants,” has rendered them stateless under the 1982 Citizenship Law. The recent “democratisation” of Myanmar facilitated neoliberal expansion in the resource-rich Rakhine and intensified discrimination a…
Women in Thailand’s gem and jewellery industry and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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