Michael Dodson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3765461 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Dodson |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Dodson |
| FIRMA | DODSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas Christian University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings of colonial bureaucracy in the cities and argues that interactions with the colonial state were an integral aspect of the ways that Indians created a …
Not all tombs are created equal
Pentecostals, Politics, and Public Space in Latin America
As early as the 1960s researchers Emilio Willems and Christian Lalive d'Epinay recognized the degree to which Pentecostalism had become an established, popular religion in Latin America. Willems studied both the historical Protestant churches and Pentecostals, offering systematic comparisons between the two types of churches on a range of issues. The present trend toward democratization in Latin America has had an interesting effect on scholarshi…
A Response to Gordon Briscoe
The thing that most disappoints me about Mr Briscoe's article on Kevin Gilbert is its posthumous release. It is impossible for the dead to respond, that task is left to the survivors. Kevin Gilbert was a survivor in every sense -1 like to remember him like that. Mr Briscoe's article is in part factually incorrect, an essential flaw for an historian writing about history I have thought. I leave it for members of Kevin's family to correct these err…
Neo-Populism in Comparative Perspective
Research Article| May 01 2009 Neo-Populism in Comparative Perspective: Iran and Venezuela Manochehr Dorraj; Manochehr Dorraj Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Dodson Michael Dodson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (1): 137–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2008-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissio…
Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
In 1881 an author who counted himself amongst the ‘intelligent portion’ of Benares’ agricultural community, anonymously published a tract entitled Thoughts on India, by a Brahman.1 The book was characterised as a true representation of India’s depressed, suffering, and discontented population, and went on to identify the cause of that discontent to be the British government’s ‘more or less disguised policy of selfishness’. The purpose of the book…
Paṇḍits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
The trope of Sanskrit scholarship’s decline is well established. British orientalists and educationalists from the mid-eighteenth century onwards argued that Sanskrit, as an intellectual enterprise, was in a state of terminal decay, and required European intervention in order to resurrect it and turn it to the cause of improvement. Similarly, contemporary Hindu extremists, in their promotion of Hindutva at the expense of Indian minorities, have c…
An Empire of the Understanding
While an integral element of the East India Company’s governance of India in the eighteenth century was its policies of cultural conciliation and the courting of indigenous elites for the influence they wielded, historiographies of the nineteenth century have tended to highlight the relative power and aloofness of the British imperial state. Certainly, the attitudes of cultural superiority and self-confidence which were a part of British strategi…
Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
Benares has long been characterised as a paramount city within the religious landscape of Hinduism. It is perhaps best known as a place of pilgrimage for Hindus, as well as a centre of Sanskrit-based learning. Benares is mentioned as a tῑrtha in the Mahābhārata , and figures prominently in several Purāṇas , where its sacred geography and connection to Śiva, as the source of all sacred knowledge, is described. 1 In early European travelogues, the …
On Language and Translation
Translation has often been characterised as a ‘central act’ of European imperialism. 1 It has been argued that translation was utilised to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has also been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonised as Europe’s ‘civilisational other’. On the former poin…
Sanskrit Erudition and Forms of Legitimacy
Studies of early orientalist research in India have only sporadically considered in any detail the material, social and political contexts in which that body of scholarship was produced. British knowledge about India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example, has largely been delineated by reference to European metropolitan intellectual genealogies, reflecting the recent historiographical emphasis upon colonial discourse analysi…
Introduction Histories of Empire, Histories of Knowledge
This is a book about orientalism in India. It examines the varied manifestations of literary, historical, and linguistic scholarly practices which were utilised to constitute the object ‘Indian civilisation’ through the literature of Sanskrit, from about 1770 to 1880. Given this scope, the book is necessarily selective in its focus. Yet the subjects discussed are unified throughout by the argument that the practices of orientalism were necessaril…
Orientalism and the Writing of World History
Orientalist research was an integral component of the East India Company’s conquest and governance of India. This chapter seeks to unambiguously reassert the important connections between a history of eighteenth-century orientalist research, in particular, with the rise of British imperial power in India. At the most basic level, orientalist research served to provide the colonial state with cultural information by which to rule the Company’s ter…
Contesting Translations
This essay examines the contested grounds of authorization for one important orientalist project in India during the nineteenth century – the translation of the ancient Sanskrit Ṛg Veda , with a view to highlighting the ultimately ambiguous nature of the orientalist enterprise. It is argued that Europeans initially sought to validate their translations by adhering to Indian scholarly practices and, in later decades, to a more “scientific” orienta…
Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orienta
Postconflict Development and Peace Building
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
The Forgotten Mughals
Journal Article The Forgotten Mughals: A History of the Later Emperors of the House of Babar (1707–1857) Get access Michael S. Dodson Michael S. Dodson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 481, April 2004, Pages 539–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.481.539 Published: 01 April 2004
Horizontal Accountability in Transitional Democracies
Postwar El Salvador and Guatemala have undertaken to reform and democratize the state and to support the rule of law. Each country entered the 1990s hobbled by a legacy of authoritarian rule, while a corrupt and politicized judiciary offered virtually no check on the abuse of power. Because the judiciary has performed poorly as an institution of horizontal accountability, this article examines the performance of a new "accountability agency," the…
Assessing Judicial Reform in Latin America
A learned and uncorrupt judge is l1luch worth in tilne of peace
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
Political will and public trust
Contradiction and Conflict
Political interpretations of the Sandinista Revolution have varied to the point of extreme polarization, both inside and outside Nicaragua. This ambiguity has attracted the attention of scholars for two decades. One of the many aspects of the Sandinista Revolution that continues to interest researchers is the role religion has played in shaping or inhibiting social and political change in Nicaragua. During the 1980s, as part of its ideological wa…
Political Bargaining and Democratic Transitions
This article examines the relationship between pact-making and democratic transitions in Nicaragua (1988-1997) and El Salvador (1990-1997). We argue that the process of elite bargaining about regime change affects the prospects for the consolidation of democracy. We emphasise three factors: (1) the choices key actors make as they bargain about bargaining, (2) their willingness to 'under-utilise' their power and (3) the influence of historical and…
Country-Region Index
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Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture
Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orienta
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
Horizontal Accountability in Transitional Democracies
Postwar El Salvador and Guatemala have undertaken to reform and democratize the state and to support the rule of law. Each country entered the 1990s hobbled by a legacy of authoritarian rule, while a corrupt and politicized judiciary offered virtually no check on the abuse of power. Because the judiciary has performed poorly as an institution of horizontal accountability, this article examines the performance of a new "accountability agency," the…
Neo-Populism in Comparative Perspective
Research Article| May 01 2009 Neo-Populism in Comparative Perspective: Iran and Venezuela Manochehr Dorraj; Manochehr Dorraj Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Michael Dodson Michael Dodson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (1): 137–151. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-2008-049 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissio…
Priests and Peronism
For sheer fascination, few countries in the world can offer a more intriguing post-war political history than Argentina, whose experience with Peronismo will long challenge the explanatory powers of social scientists. That this complex working-class political movement founded by Juan Peron could persist through seventeen years of proscription, together with the exile of Peron, is by itself unusual. That Peronismo not only survived these condition…
The Politics of Religion in Revolutionary Nicaragua
The Popular Insurrection in Nicaragua is examined against the backdrop of the grass-roots mobilization and protest that built up between 1968 and 1978. Particular attention is given to the linkages between grass-roots religious change and political mobilization. It is argued that the democratization of religious experience in the decade following the 1968 meeting of the Conference of Latin American Bishops in Medellín greatly facilitated the part…
Contesting Translations
This essay examines the contested grounds of authorization for one important orientalist project in India during the nineteenth century – the translation of the ancient Sanskrit Ṛg Veda , with a view to highlighting the ultimately ambiguous nature of the orientalist enterprise. It is argued that Europeans initially sought to validate their translations by adhering to Indian scholarly practices and, in later decades, to a more “scientific” orienta…
Political Bargaining and Democratic Transitions
This article examines the relationship between pact-making and democratic transitions in Nicaragua (1988-1997) and El Salvador (1990-1997). We argue that the process of elite bargaining about regime change affects the prospects for the consolidation of democracy. We emphasise three factors: (1) the choices key actors make as they bargain about bargaining, (2) their willingness to 'under-utilise' their power and (3) the influence of historical and…
The Christian Left in Latin American Politics
After decades of neglect, interest in the political significance of Latin American Catholicism increased sharply in the late 1960s when it began to appear that the Church might have unimagined potential for promoting social change, particularly in a continent plagued by social upheaval and political instability (Drekonja, 1971: 59-65). In both word and deed, the postconciliar Church manifested a changing social orientation which entailed open inv…
Political will and public trust
Country-Region Index
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Liberation Theology and Christian Radicalism in Contemporary Latin America
For the past decade and a half, Latin American Catholicism has been a focal point of extraordinary religious change and political activism. Although the first visible signs of religious renewal in the traditionally conservative Latin American church did not appear until the early 1960s, a mere decade later, in 1972, Christians for Socialism had held an international meeting of radical Christians in Santiago, Chile. Today, Latin American bishops a…
Priests and Peronism
For sheer fascination, few countries in the world can offer a more intriguing post-war political history than Argentina, whose experience with Peronismo will long challenge the explanatory powers of social scientists. That this complex working-class political movement founded by Juan Peron could persist through seventeen years of proscription, together with the exile of Peron, is by itself unusual. That Peronismo not only survived these condition…
The Christian Left in Latin American Politics
After decades of neglect, interest in the political significance of Latin American Catholicism increased sharply in the late 1960s when it began to appear that the Church might have unimagined potential for promoting social change, particularly in a continent plagued by social upheaval and political instability (Drekonja, 1971: 59-65). In both word and deed, the postconciliar Church manifested a changing social orientation which entailed open inv…
Liberation Theology and Christian Radicalism in Contemporary Latin America
For the past decade and a half, Latin American Catholicism has been a focal point of extraordinary religious change and political activism. Although the first visible signs of religious renewal in the traditionally conservative Latin American church did not appear until the early 1960s, a mere decade later, in 1972, Christians for Socialism had held an international meeting of radical Christians in Santiago, Chile. Today, Latin American bishops a…
Prophetic Politics & Political Theory in Latin America
The Theology of Liberation in Latin America has received relatively little attention in the relevant literature as a philosophical and political force. In this article the author assesses the nature and impact of that body of thought and explains its origins, its major principles, its Christian roots, and the reasons for its rejection of certain aspects of liberal democratic thought, particularly of its emphasis on individualism at the expense of…
Comparing the "Popular Church" in Nicaragua and Brazil
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The Politics of Religion in Revolutionary Nicaragua
The Popular Insurrection in Nicaragua is examined against the backdrop of the grass-roots mobilization and protest that built up between 1968 and 1978. Particular attention is given to the linkages between grass-roots religious change and political mobilization. It is argued that the democratization of religious experience in the decade following the 1968 meeting of the Conference of Latin American Bishops in Medellín greatly facilitated the part…
The Church and Political Struggle
Catholics throughout Latin America will soon mark the twentyfifth anniversary of Pope John XXIII's great papal initiative convening the Second Vatican Council. Some will celebrate the event joyfully while others may express chagrin or regret. Vatican II has proved to be a pivotal event for Catholicism, especially in Latin America, where it revitalized religious life. During the ensuing twenty-five years, the church has taken on a host of new comm…
Recent Writing on Nicaragua
Nicaragua's Other Revolution
The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians. Like all revolutions, the Nicaraguan Revolution has provoked controversy and hostility, and the Christian presence has been a focal point in the debate. In this work Michael Dodson and Laura Nuzzi O'Shaughnessy offer a detailed study of the religious sources of the revolution set against the backgound of…
Tradition and change in the Latin American catholic church
(1993). Tradition and change in the Latin American catholic church: A comparison of el Salvador and Nicaragua. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 36, Catholicism and politics, pp. 122-141
The Changing Spectrum of Religious Activism in Latin America
Research on religion and politics in Latin America has changed focus dramatically since the second edition of J. Lloyd Mecham's classic Church and State in Latin America appeared in 1966. Originally written in the 1930s, Mecham's book concentrated attention on formal church-state relations throughout Latin America from the conquest to the 20th century. For decades it was the standard work on the subject. However, in the late 1960s the subject its…
Country-Region Index
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political Bargaining and Democratic Transitions
This article examines the relationship between pact-making and democratic transitions in Nicaragua (1988-1997) and El Salvador (1990-1997). We argue that the process of elite bargaining about regime change affects the prospects for the consolidation of democracy. We emphasise three factors: (1) the choices key actors make as they bargain about bargaining, (2) their willingness to 'under-utilise' their power and (3) the influence of historical and…
Contradiction and Conflict
Political interpretations of the Sandinista Revolution have varied to the point of extreme polarization, both inside and outside Nicaragua. This ambiguity has attracted the attention of scholars for two decades. One of the many aspects of the Sandinista Revolution that continues to interest researchers is the role religion has played in shaping or inhibiting social and political change in Nicaragua. During the 1980s, as part of its ideological wa…
Political will and public trust
Assessing Judicial Reform in Latin America
A learned and uncorrupt judge is l1luch worth in tilne of peace
Re-Presented for the Pandits
In January of 1853, the Lt Governor of the North-Western Provinces, James Thomason, inaugurated a new building in Banaras, situated perhaps halfway between the European cantonment and the ghats which line the sacred river Ganga. Designed in a high Gothic style by Major Kittoe, this was to be the new home of the Benares College, which incorporated one of the largest, and most symbolically important, Sanskrit departments of any British educational …
The Forgotten Mughals
Journal Article The Forgotten Mughals: A History of the Later Emperors of the House of Babar (1707–1857) Get access Michael S. Dodson Michael S. Dodson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 481, April 2004, Pages 539–540, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/119.481.539 Published: 01 April 2004
Horizontal Accountability in Transitional Democracies
Postwar El Salvador and Guatemala have undertaken to reform and democratize the state and to support the rule of law. Each country entered the 1990s hobbled by a legacy of authoritarian rule, while a corrupt and politicized judiciary offered virtually no check on the abuse of power. Because the judiciary has performed poorly as an institution of horizontal accountability, this article examines the performance of a new "accountability agency," the…
Translating Science, Translating Empire
Translation has often been characterized as a 'central act' of European colonialism and imperialism. For example, it has been argued that translation had been utilized to make available legal-cultural information for the administration and rule of the non-West, but perhaps more importantly, translation has been identified as important for the resources it provided in the construction of representations of the colonized as Europe's 'civilizational…
Postconflict Development and Peace Building
Afterword Sanskrit, Authority, National Culture
In 1881 an author who counted himself amongst the ‘intelligent portion’ of Benares’ agricultural community, anonymously published a tract entitled Thoughts on India, by a Brahman.1 The book was characterised as a true representation of India’s depressed, suffering, and discontented population, and went on to identify the cause of that discontent to be the British government’s ‘more or less disguised policy of selfishness’. The purpose of the book…
Paṇḍits, Sanskrit Learning, and Europe’s ‘New Knowledge’
The trope of Sanskrit scholarship’s decline is well established. British orientalists and educationalists from the mid-eighteenth century onwards argued that Sanskrit, as an intellectual enterprise, was in a state of terminal decay, and required European intervention in order to resurrect it and turn it to the cause of improvement. Similarly, contemporary Hindu extremists, in their promotion of Hindutva at the expense of Indian minorities, have c…
An Empire of the Understanding
While an integral element of the East India Company’s governance of India in the eighteenth century was its policies of cultural conciliation and the courting of indigenous elites for the influence they wielded, historiographies of the nineteenth century have tended to highlight the relative power and aloofness of the British imperial state. Certainly, the attitudes of cultural superiority and self-confidence which were a part of British strategi…
Enlisting Sanskrit on the Side of Progress
Benares has long been characterised as a paramount city within the religious landscape of Hinduism. It is perhaps best known as a place of pilgrimage for Hindus, as well as a centre of Sanskrit-based learning. Benares is mentioned as a tῑrtha in the Mahābhārata , and figures prominently in several Purāṇas , where its sacred geography and connection to Śiva, as the source of all sacred knowledge, is described. 1 In early European travelogues, the …
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