T B Hansen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 58620 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T B Hansen |
| NOMBRES | T B |
| APELLIDO | Hansen |
| FIRMA | HANSEN T B |
| AFILIACIONES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3090-4185 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 598 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Expelled from public memory
Expulsions of populations from ancestral land were a cornerstone of apartheid rule and urban planning. This article explores the multiple layers of expulsions of both African and Indian populations that occurred in and around Cato Manor, a large centrally located area in Durban, South Africa, throughout the twentieth century. Bloody conflicts that engulfed the area between 1949 and 1959 led to the removal of all residents in the early 1960s. Two …
Real abstractions
This introduction begins with a brief overview of the three major factors shaping economic life and exchange in India, as laid out by contributions in the edited volume Rethinking Markets in Modern India: embedded exchange, contested jurisdiction, and pliable markets. The overarching logic of all the contributions is that markets in India must be understood as path dependent, that is, expressing a historical trajectory and specific, and changing,…
A History of Distributed Sovereignty
This chapter traces the origins and patterns of sovereignty and migration across the Indian Ocean that have been reproduced over centuries up to the present day. This is particularly visible in the way small, well-organized trading communities continue to dominate much of mercantile life across the Global Indian Ocean--a direct bequest of the Pax Britannica. British hegemony could only be established through an elaborate system of treaties and in…
Decolonizing Palestine
Book Review Forum on Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial /Somdeep Sen. Ithaca, NY:Cornell University Press. x and171 pp. $25.95 paper (ISBN 978-1501752742); $65.55 cloth (ISBN 978-1501752735)
Sovereignty in a Minor Key
Theories of sovereignty in the twentieth century are generally based on a teleological "out-of-Europe" narrative where the modern, centralized nation-state form gradually spread across the world to be the foundation of the international order. In this article, the author reflects on how the conceptualization of sovereignty may change if one begins a global account of modern sovereignty not from the heart of Western Europe but from the complex arr…
The Force of Symbolic Power
Most contemporary theorization and critique of sovereignty begins from the assumption of effective violence as the hard kernel of modern sovereignty. In this afterword, Hansen reflects on how the histories of provisional, overlapping, and divisible sovereignty in South Asia and elsewhere described in the special section “Rethinking Sovereignty” afford us a more differentiated view of the symbolic force of sovereignty—as a promise and a claim to i…
Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence
In this Afterword I argue that public authority in South Asia is produced in a dynamic interplay between ever-more segmented publics and the ubiquity of highly performative violence. Drawing on Indian examples, I suggest that the success of vernacular publics in producing a sense of cultural intimacy within language communities in turn has prompted a new segmentation of publics. This has occurred along lines of caste and community, defined by soc…
Civics, civility and race in post-apartheid South Africa
This article explores how, and why, the capacity for civic responsibility and civility of conduct became a central discursive and practical battleground in the colonial world. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in colonial and apartheid South Africa, where the putative benefits of self-government along separate racial lines became a crucial component of apartheid. Starting from a brief conceptual history of civility and colonialism, I argue th…
Aesthetics of arrival
India’s celebrated ‘arrival on the global stage’ as a desirable ‘emerging market’ for global investors signals the spectacular moment that is said to have ruptured the barriers between the first and third worlds. If the notion of arrival anticipates the long-awaited acceleration in the pace of history, it also harnesses a euphoric India to the limitless future promised by the new. In this special issue, we set our focus on the aesthetics of arriv…
Citizenship as horizon
The idea of citizenship has today emerged as a global horizon under which a proliferating range of claims and demands for recognition, visibility, care, moral dignity, and inclusion are made. Initially a legal concept tied to self-determination and national sovereignty, the global human rights agenda has made citizenship less tied to the nation-state and instead a carrier of multiple cultural and political meanings and agendas from the global lev…
Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents
Journal Article Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Get access Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 366. $45.00. Thomas Blom Hansen Thomas Blom Hansen Stanford University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 5, …
Migration, religion and post-imperial formations
Most scholarship on international migration focuses on the incorporation of ethnic and religious minorities into societies in Europe and North America. Much of this work overlooks that a very substantial part of contemporary flows of migration happen within well-trodden pathways of language, commercial ties and cultural imagination established by colonial empires and the networks of exchange and control they enabled. Adopting a notion of the post…
Ethnicity by Fiat
This chapter narrates the story of how the Asiatic question was configured in South Africa from the 1860s to the present as a question of necessary containment of culturally alien people. It describes how the township of Chatsworth was set up, imagined, and framed as a purely Indian space over decades of tense and often antagonistic tussle between policy makers and social activists. The chapter also looks at how specific methods of policing contr…
Sovereigns beyond the State
Introduction - Urban Charisma
Cities are charismatic entities. Both in and of themselves by virtue of their history and their mythologies, but also as sites where charismatic figures emerge on the basis of their capacity to interpret, manage and master the opacity of the city. The specificity of the urban can neither be understood through the city's functions nor the dynamics of its social networks. The urban is also a way of being in the world and must be understood as a den…
Introduction
The wave of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg in May 2008 put the issue of migration into South Africa high on the political agenda.1 Most residents in Johannesburg had experienced an ever-gr
The Political Theology of Violence in Contemporary India
What are we to make of the fact that most violence in India rarely has any visible or clear actors? Why is most violence represented as 'pure events' without identifiable actors-but as 'mobs', as spontaneous combustion, as spontaneous rage that arises from perceived collective grievances and insults? Why in a country saturated in political rhetoric is it that acts of violence have acquired their own semiotic register, a singular form of 'politica…
Politics by other means
International audience
Sounds of Freedom
Research Article| January 01 2006 Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen Thomas Blom Hansen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-185 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Performers of Sovereignty
The police force was the most hated and visible representation of South Africa's apartheid state. The massive crime wave after 1994 and the new anxieties in a democratic South Africa have made security the primary concern in everyday life in the country. This article explores the paradoxes of policing, state violence and community involvement in security in a township in Durban. An important theme is the change of the symbolic locus of sovereignt…
Sovereignty Revisited
Sovereignty has returned as a central concern in anthropology. This reinvention seeks to explore de facto sovereignty, i.e., the ability to kill, punish, and discipline with impunity. The central proposition is a call to abandon sovereignty as an ontological ground of power and order in favor of a view of sovereignty as a tentative and always emergent form of authority grounded in violence. After a brief account of why the classical work on kings…
States of Imagination
Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai
Bridging the Gulf
People always think of their city, their neighbourhood or their locality as a place in the world. They have more or less elaborate notions of a larger ‘global horizon’ that enframe what they do and say, and how they make sense of their own lives. Such horizons are formed and produced by a range of knowledge, fragments of narratives, images, icons — some of them authorized by governments and educational systems, others transmitted through personal…
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
Sovereignty Revisited
Sovereignty has returned as a central concern in anthropology. This reinvention seeks to explore de facto sovereignty, i.e., the ability to kill, punish, and discipline with impunity. The central proposition is a call to abandon sovereignty as an ontological ground of power and order in favor of a view of sovereignty as a tentative and always emergent form of authority grounded in violence. After a brief account of why the classical work on kings…
Introduction - Urban Charisma
Cities are charismatic entities. Both in and of themselves by virtue of their history and their mythologies, but also as sites where charismatic figures emerge on the basis of their capacity to interpret, manage and master the opacity of the city. The specificity of the urban can neither be understood through the city's functions nor the dynamics of its social networks. The urban is also a way of being in the world and must be understood as a den…
Recuperating Masculinity
Le nationalisme hindou a Thane City au Nord de Bombay est represente par le RSS (Organisation volontaire nationale) et le Shiv Sena (Armee de Shivaji). Ce nationalisme culturel exalte la force physique et le controle de soi. Les nationalistes militants sont les fils de la nation-Mere. Le nationalisme vise a une semitisation et a inverser la vision orientaliste trop feministe. Les deux mouvements nationalistes considerent le Musulman comme l'Autre…
Predicaments of secularism
Most of the debate about secularism and the secular state in India has remained at a general level, leaving a great many gaps in our knowledge of the actual meanings and practices associated with secularism in India. This article argues that secularism in India is premised on an unstable separation of a realm of politics from a supposedly unpolitical realm of culture, where communities have been represented in rather static and undifferentiated t…
States of Imagination
Performers of Sovereignty
The police force was the most hated and visible representation of South Africa's apartheid state. The massive crime wave after 1994 and the new anxieties in a democratic South Africa have made security the primary concern in everyday life in the country. This article explores the paradoxes of policing, state violence and community involvement in security in a township in Durban. An important theme is the change of the symbolic locus of sovereignt…
Sounds of Freedom
Research Article| January 01 2006 Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen Thomas Blom Hansen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-185 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
The vernacularisation of Hindutva
The recent conquest of political power in Maharashtra by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine was premised upon the advances made by these parties into the rural districts of the state in the late 1980s. This political expansion was made possible by a growing dissatisfaction with the immobility of the Congress organisation, which in the course of the 1980s proved incapable of incorporating the new upwardly mobile groups thrown up by the intensified commerci…
The Political Theology of Violence in Contemporary India
What are we to make of the fact that most violence in India rarely has any visible or clear actors? Why is most violence represented as 'pure events' without identifiable actors-but as 'mobs', as spontaneous combustion, as spontaneous rage that arises from perceived collective grievances and insults? Why in a country saturated in political rhetoric is it that acts of violence have acquired their own semiotic register, a singular form of 'politica…
Migration, religion and post-imperial formations
Most scholarship on international migration focuses on the incorporation of ethnic and religious minorities into societies in Europe and North America. Much of this work overlooks that a very substantial part of contemporary flows of migration happen within well-trodden pathways of language, commercial ties and cultural imagination established by colonial empires and the networks of exchange and control they enabled. Adopting a notion of the post…
Sovereignty in a Minor Key
Theories of sovereignty in the twentieth century are generally based on a teleological "out-of-Europe" narrative where the modern, centralized nation-state form gradually spread across the world to be the foundation of the international order. In this article, the author reflects on how the conceptualization of sovereignty may change if one begins a global account of modern sovereignty not from the heart of Western Europe but from the complex arr…
Introduction
The wave of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg in May 2008 put the issue of migration into South Africa high on the political agenda.1 Most residents in Johannesburg had experienced an ever-gr
The Saffron Wave
Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence
In this Afterword I argue that public authority in South Asia is produced in a dynamic interplay between ever-more segmented publics and the ubiquity of highly performative violence. Drawing on Indian examples, I suggest that the success of vernacular publics in producing a sense of cultural intimacy within language communities in turn has prompted a new segmentation of publics. This has occurred along lines of caste and community, defined by soc…
Citizenship as horizon
The idea of citizenship has today emerged as a global horizon under which a proliferating range of claims and demands for recognition, visibility, care, moral dignity, and inclusion are made. Initially a legal concept tied to self-determination and national sovereignty, the global human rights agenda has made citizenship less tied to the nation-state and instead a carrier of multiple cultural and political meanings and agendas from the global lev…
Plays, Politics and Cultural Identity Among Indians in Durban
The paper analyses how the lively tradition of Indian community theatre has reflected and contributed to the formation and contestation of identities among Indians in Durban since the 1960s. Starting from a popular piece of political satire, Mooidevi's Muti , staged in 1998, the recent history of South African Indian theatre is described as the emergence of a canon: two main genres, political satire and the family drama, that since the 1960s have…
Controlled Emancipation
The Force of Symbolic Power
Most contemporary theorization and critique of sovereignty begins from the assumption of effective violence as the hard kernel of modern sovereignty. In this afterword, Hansen reflects on how the histories of provisional, overlapping, and divisible sovereignty in South Asia and elsewhere described in the special section “Rethinking Sovereignty” afford us a more differentiated view of the symbolic force of sovereignty—as a promise and a claim to i…
Politics by other means
International audience
Civics, civility and race in post-apartheid South Africa
This article explores how, and why, the capacity for civic responsibility and civility of conduct became a central discursive and practical battleground in the colonial world. Nowhere was this more pronounced than in colonial and apartheid South Africa, where the putative benefits of self-government along separate racial lines became a crucial component of apartheid. Starting from a brief conceptual history of civility and colonialism, I argue th…
Inside the Romanticist Episteme
Many contemporary critiques of `modernity' target a caricatured construction of `modernity-as-universalist-reason'. Such critiques are often blind to the constitutive splits and tensions within the philosophical and political horizons of modernity between a rationalist and a romanticist episteme. These critiques are therefore also oblivious to the fact that their own critiques of modernity move on a terrain heavily structured and prefigured by ol…
Inside the Romanticist Episteme
Many contemporary critiques of `modernity' target a caricatured construction of `modernity-as-universalist-reason'. Such critiques are often blind to the constitutive splits and tensions within the philosophical and political horizons of modernity between a rationalist and a romanticist episteme. These critiques are therefore also oblivious to the fact that their own critiques of modernity move on a terrain heavily structured and prefigured by ol…
Controlled Emancipation
Inside the Romanticist Episteme
Many contemporary critiques of `modernity' target a caricatured construction of `modernity-as-universalist-reason'. Such critiques are often blind to the constitutive splits and tensions within the philosophical and political horizons of modernity between a rationalist and a romanticist episteme. These critiques are therefore also oblivious to the fact that their own critiques of modernity move on a terrain heavily structured and prefigured by ol…
The vernacularisation of Hindutva
The recent conquest of political power in Maharashtra by the Shiv Sena-BJP combine was premised upon the advances made by these parties into the rural districts of the state in the late 1980s. This political expansion was made possible by a growing dissatisfaction with the immobility of the Congress organisation, which in the course of the 1980s proved incapable of incorporating the new upwardly mobile groups thrown up by the intensified commerci…
Recuperating Masculinity
Le nationalisme hindou a Thane City au Nord de Bombay est represente par le RSS (Organisation volontaire nationale) et le Shiv Sena (Armee de Shivaji). Ce nationalisme culturel exalte la force physique et le controle de soi. Les nationalistes militants sont les fils de la nation-Mere. Le nationalisme vise a une semitisation et a inverser la vision orientaliste trop feministe. Les deux mouvements nationalistes considerent le Musulman comme l'Autre…
Inside the Romanticist Episteme
Many contemporary critiques of `modernity' target a caricatured construction of `modernity-as-universalist-reason'. Such critiques are often blind to the constitutive splits and tensions within the philosophical and political horizons of modernity between a rationalist and a romanticist episteme. These critiques are therefore also oblivious to the fact that their own critiques of modernity move on a terrain heavily structured and prefigured by ol…
The Saffron Wave
Plays, Politics and Cultural Identity Among Indians in Durban
The paper analyses how the lively tradition of Indian community theatre has reflected and contributed to the formation and contestation of identities among Indians in Durban since the 1960s. Starting from a popular piece of political satire, Mooidevi's Muti , staged in 1998, the recent history of South African Indian theatre is described as the emergence of a canon: two main genres, political satire and the family drama, that since the 1960s have…
Predicaments of secularism
Most of the debate about secularism and the secular state in India has remained at a general level, leaving a great many gaps in our knowledge of the actual meanings and practices associated with secularism in India. This article argues that secularism in India is premised on an unstable separation of a realm of politics from a supposedly unpolitical realm of culture, where communities have been represented in rather static and undifferentiated t…
Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai
Bridging the Gulf
People always think of their city, their neighbourhood or their locality as a place in the world. They have more or less elaborate notions of a larger ‘global horizon’ that enframe what they do and say, and how they make sense of their own lives. Such horizons are formed and produced by a range of knowledge, fragments of narratives, images, icons — some of them authorized by governments and educational systems, others transmitted through personal…
An Anthropology of Names and Naming
This book is about personal names, something of abiding interest to specialists and lay readers alike. Over a million people have checked the American Name Society website since 1996, for instance. Many philosophers and linguists suggest that names are 'just' labels, but parents internationally are determined to get their children's names 'right'. Personal names may be given, lost, traded, stolen and inherited. This collection of essays provides …
States of Imagination
Politics by other means
International audience
Sounds of Freedom
Research Article| January 01 2006 Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa Thomas Blom Hansen Thomas Blom Hansen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-18-1-185 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools …
Performers of Sovereignty
The police force was the most hated and visible representation of South Africa's apartheid state. The massive crime wave after 1994 and the new anxieties in a democratic South Africa have made security the primary concern in everyday life in the country. This article explores the paradoxes of policing, state violence and community involvement in security in a township in Durban. An important theme is the change of the symbolic locus of sovereignt…
Sovereignty Revisited
Sovereignty has returned as a central concern in anthropology. This reinvention seeks to explore de facto sovereignty, i.e., the ability to kill, punish, and discipline with impunity. The central proposition is a call to abandon sovereignty as an ontological ground of power and order in favor of a view of sovereignty as a tentative and always emergent form of authority grounded in violence. After a brief account of why the classical work on kings…
The Political Theology of Violence in Contemporary India
What are we to make of the fact that most violence in India rarely has any visible or clear actors? Why is most violence represented as 'pure events' without identifiable actors-but as 'mobs', as spontaneous combustion, as spontaneous rage that arises from perceived collective grievances and insults? Why in a country saturated in political rhetoric is it that acts of violence have acquired their own semiotic register, a singular form of 'politica…
Sovereigns beyond the State
Introduction - Urban Charisma
Cities are charismatic entities. Both in and of themselves by virtue of their history and their mythologies, but also as sites where charismatic figures emerge on the basis of their capacity to interpret, manage and master the opacity of the city. The specificity of the urban can neither be understood through the city's functions nor the dynamics of its social networks. The urban is also a way of being in the world and must be understood as a den…
Introduction
The wave of anti-immigrant violence in Johannesburg in May 2008 put the issue of migration into South Africa high on the political agenda.1 Most residents in Johannesburg had experienced an ever-gr
Ethnicity by Fiat
This chapter narrates the story of how the Asiatic question was configured in South Africa from the 1860s to the present as a question of necessary containment of culturally alien people. It describes how the township of Chatsworth was set up, imagined, and framed as a purely Indian space over decades of tense and often antagonistic tussle between policy makers and social activists. The chapter also looks at how specific methods of policing contr…
Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents
Journal Article Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Get access Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. viii, 366. $45.00. Thomas Blom Hansen Thomas Blom Hansen Stanford University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 119, Issue 5, …
Migration, religion and post-imperial formations
Most scholarship on international migration focuses on the incorporation of ethnic and religious minorities into societies in Europe and North America. Much of this work overlooks that a very substantial part of contemporary flows of migration happen within well-trodden pathways of language, commercial ties and cultural imagination established by colonial empires and the networks of exchange and control they enabled. Adopting a notion of the post…
Citizenship as horizon
The idea of citizenship has today emerged as a global horizon under which a proliferating range of claims and demands for recognition, visibility, care, moral dignity, and inclusion are made. Initially a legal concept tied to self-determination and national sovereignty, the global human rights agenda has made citizenship less tied to the nation-state and instead a carrier of multiple cultural and political meanings and agendas from the global lev…
Aesthetics of arrival
India’s celebrated ‘arrival on the global stage’ as a desirable ‘emerging market’ for global investors signals the spectacular moment that is said to have ruptured the barriers between the first and third worlds. If the notion of arrival anticipates the long-awaited acceleration in the pace of history, it also harnesses a euphoric India to the limitless future promised by the new. In this special issue, we set our focus on the aesthetics of arriv…
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