Nicolas Jaoul
Biographic Data
| ID | 114692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Jaoul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Jaoul |
| SIGNATURE | JAOUL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020-2021: Agrarian crisis, dissent and identity
Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance: Between Realism and Transgression
The novel in question here is not based on any kind of survey, but on the experience of two Dalits during the state of emergency. By imagining their life experience, it does, however, probe certain aspects of this period which Indian studies failed to address until very recently. Considering that literary and scientific writing are increasingly bound to intersect and influence each other, it is useful to consider all the implications of this perm…
Élections en Inde: La politique des marges marque un point
Revisiter la démocratie indienne avec « L'Équilibre du Monde » de Rohinton Mistry, entre réalisme et transgressions
Prenant en défaut une posture qui consiste à voir de véritables ethnographes chez les grands écrivains, le roman dont il est question ici ne repose sur aucune enquête. À partir de l'expérience vécue de deux dalits pendant la période de l'état d'urgence, il permet pourtant de sonder les failles de la démocratie indienne et de combler un long silence sur cette période des études indiennes, auxquelles ce témoignage littéraire a même eu tendance à se…
Anand Teltumbde, Khairlanji. A Strange and Bitter Crop
The importance of the Khairlanji events lies partly, but not mainly, in the exceptional degree of cruelty displayed by the village mob when it engaged, in broad daylight, in the murder and collective rape of four members of a Dalit family. After all, events of caste-based violence have occurred regularly in Indian villages since the 1970s, when the dynamics of Dalit emancipation threatened to upset the rural traditional order. Khairlanji’s histor…
La politique des réfugié-e-s. Échos de La Chapelle en Lutte, juin-juillet 2015
Après avoir évoqué le concept de la subjectivation politique et la manière dont la subjectivité politique a été abordée dans les études migratoires, l’article se penche sur les réflexions de migrant-e-s acteurs de la mobilisation dans le quartier de la Chapelle à Paris en juin et juillet 2015. Tout en revenant sur le choix des migrant-e-s de se positionner en tant que demandeurs d’asile face à des soutiens les incitant à rejoindre la lutte des sa…
La politique des images: Entretien de Kassia Aleksic avec Nicolas Jaoul à propos de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte
Cet entretien avec Nicolas Jaoul condense les réflexions qui ont accompagné la réalisation de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte (Sister Productions, 2018) tant sur un plan anthropologique, politique et cinématographique. Tournées au moment d’une enquête de thèse qui a duré 4 années, à la fin des années 90 dans l’Uttar Pradesh, en Inde du Nord, les images replongent les spectateur·trices dans le quotidien militant des « Dalits Panthers » et…
Confronting Denials of Casteism: An Interview with Prof. Meena Dhanda, a UK-Based Anti-caste Academic Activist
Punjab
Beyond Diaspora: Ambedkarism, Multiculturalism and Caste in the UK
Based on the accounts of Dalit immigrants from Punjab who settled in the UK in the 1960s, this essay sheds light on the UK Ambedkarite movement’s political trajectory. How did the Anticaste philosophy of political emancipation retain its significance in the context of migration? Beyond the diasporic model of engagement that views the immigrants’ political interests as necessarily oriented towards the homeland, Ambedkarism negotiated and transgres…
Armed Resistance's Self-Defeat? The Predicaments of India's People's War
Politics Against the Grain: The Dalit Movement of Uttar Pradesh in the Throes of NGOization
The 'empowerment' approach to development adopted by international institutions has recently enabled the Indian Dalit movement to avail itself of western funds. This case study of a network of Dalit NGOs in Uttar Pradesh highlights how these funds are being used and to what political effect. It shows that in such a previously politicized context, politicized actors of the NGOization process actively defend a radical agenda that links up caste, cl…
Citizenship in religious clothing
B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) advocated the religious conversion of Dalits to Navayana Buddhism as the pillar of the future struggle against caste. This article examines the implications of this turn to religion for the Dalit movement. As shown by its convergence with Marx's critique of bourgeois citizenship, Navayana exceeds the framework of political liberalism. It is argued, though, that Navayana is neither an orientalized version of liberal poli…
Beyond citizenship
Does the dominant, statist conception of citizenship offer a satisfying framework to study the politicization of subaltern classes? This dialectical exploration of the political movements that emerge from the suppressed margins of Indian society questions their relationship to the state and its outcomes from the point of view of emancipation. As this special section shows, political ethnographers of "insurgent citizenship" among Dalits and Adivas…
Política contra o grão. O movimento Dalit de Uttar Pradesh em meio à ONG-ização
Desde o final da década de 1990 a sociedade civil transnacional começou a abordar a questão da discriminação de castas na Índia. O que acontece com a"abordagem baseada nos direitos humanos oficiais" e seu corolário, "empoderamento", promovida pelas instituições internacionais, uma vez que adentram no domínio da política subalterna de emancipação? Este artigo é sobre o efeito da ONG-ização na trajetória política dos Dalits("intocáveis"). Depois de…
L'ambedkarisme: Abolir La Société De Castes Depuis Les Marges
Ambedkar 1 , auteur principal de la Constitution indienne et leader historique du mouvement dalit , fut aussi le théoricien radical de l'abolition de la caste, opposé au conservatisme de Gandhi. Nicolas Jaoul présente ici les résistances rencontrées par sa pensée et souligne l'importance des luttes des dalits pour sortir leur grand homme de l'oubli, ainsi que les paradoxes de la ghettoisation de ce mouvement
Politicizing victimhood: The Dalit Panthers' response to caste violence in Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s
In Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s, the Dalit Panthers' radical intervention in the field of dalit politics took place in a context of anti-dalit violence by the dominant castes. While Gandhi's consensual reformism dominated the public discourse on the untouchable question, a new generation of radicalized dalit youngsters sought their emancipation through the symbolic appropriation of violence. Focusing their politics on the dalit proletariat's …
The making of a political stronghold: A Dalit neighbourhood's exit from the Hindu Nationalist riot system
This article highlights the contribution of political competition and people's movements to the dynamics of symbolization of space. In India, the symbolic appropriation of space represents an important yet under-explored local repertoire of collective action that impacts the contemporary reproduction of local subjectivities. This case study narrates the political conflict that occurred in a Dalit (Untouchable) basti of the North Indian city of Ka…
Manju Devi's martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist politics and the rural poor in Bihar
The All India Agricultural Labourers Association (AIALA) was formed in 2003 by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) (CPI-ML Liberation), formerly an 'underground' Naxalite party, which adopted legal and democratic means in the early 1990's. Focusing on its main stronghold in the countryside of Bihar, this article analyses the way the economic struggles, social aspirations and aesthetic values of the rural proletariat are bei…
Grands Hommes vus d'en bas: L’iconographie officielle et ses usages populaires
Cet article propose d'aborder les images des grands hommes sous une perspective inédite. Par contraste avec les analyses déjà nombreuses consacrées à l'iconographie officielle, il s'agit de décaler le regard pour examiner comment la figure des hommes d'État fait l'objet d'appropriations qui échappent au registre de l'officiel tout en prenant appui sur lui. Ce changement de perspective permet de saisir les grands hommes non plus « par le haut », t…
Les statues d'Ambedkar en Inde: Répliques artisanales d’un monument et usages subalternes de l’officialité
Cet article revisite, du point de vue de la culture matérielle, un épisode majeur de l'histoire de la démocratie en Inde. La façon dont sont repris certains attributs typiques d'une stylistique officielle dans les statues d'Ambedkar installées par les militants dalits dans l'État de l'Uttar Pradesh invite à réfléchir aux usages populaires de l'officialité. Les multiples distorsions subies par l'esthétique officielle une fois retranscrite dans une…
Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia
No politics' says the roaring tiger that illustrates this special issue of SAMAJ. This sticker was bought from a street vendor in Kanpur, a city located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a celebration of the Ambedkar jayanti (birthday commemoration) in 2008. It is highly indicative of the way emotions can be valorized as pure and authentic expressions from the body, and pitted against regular politics, stigmatized as the impure realm o…
The 'Righteous Anger' of the PowerlessInvestigating Dalit Outrage over Caste Violence
This contribution brings to our attention a Dalit ('untouchable') protest movement against caste violence (the 2006 Khairlanji massacre). Although anger is supposedly an emotion used in an open and demonstrative manner by the powerful as a means to enact their domination, the Dalit movement engaged in acts of 'emotion work' that upset such a social mapping of emotions. The paper engages critically with the sterile and biased concept of 'axiologic…
Le point de vue des fonctionnaires dalits sur les quotas d’embauche de la fonction publique
Les quotas d’embauche du secteur public ont permis l’émergence d’une classe de fonctionnaires et de hauts fonctionnaires issus des milieux défavorisés et stigmatisés des « intouchables » (dalits). Cette politique a eu à terme un impact politique, puisque c’est par le biais de l’engagement de ces bénéficiaires qu’une revendication dalit a pu trouver une expression démocratique au cours des vingt dernières années. Alors qu’un mouvement d’opinion ho…
L’engagement des émigrés dalits. Idéologie et formation d’une conscience de diaspora
Cet article évoque la façon dont des militants dalits («intouchables») de la diaspora indienne ont transposé l'idéologie d'Ambedkar, leader du mouvement indien d'émancipation des dalits, en contexte diasporique. En revenant sur les grandes étapes et les principaux acteurs de cette mobilisation transnationale, l'auteur souligne le rôle d'une idéologie politique et d'un habitus militant dans l'émergence d’une conscience de diaspora
Learning the use of symbolic means: Dalits, Ambedkar statues and the state in Uttar Pradesh
The Ambedkar statue stands as a major feature of the Dalit movement. In the media, the Dalit emphasis on symbolic politics has been dismissed as mere tokenism, and the Ambedkar icon has been denigrated as Westernised. Despite attempts at studying Dalit politics since the BSP became one of the key players in Uttar Pradesh, there has been a lack of scholarly attention to the deeper social changes involved in the Dalits' relationship with the state.…
Learning the use of symbolic means: Dalits, Ambedkar statues and the state in Uttar Pradesh
The Ambedkar statue stands as a major feature of the Dalit movement. In the media, the Dalit emphasis on symbolic politics has been dismissed as mere tokenism, and the Ambedkar icon has been denigrated as Westernised. Despite attempts at studying Dalit politics since the BSP became one of the key players in Uttar Pradesh, there has been a lack of scholarly attention to the deeper social changes involved in the Dalits' relationship with the state.…
The 'Righteous Anger' of the PowerlessInvestigating Dalit Outrage over Caste Violence
This contribution brings to our attention a Dalit ('untouchable') protest movement against caste violence (the 2006 Khairlanji massacre). Although anger is supposedly an emotion used in an open and demonstrative manner by the powerful as a means to enact their domination, the Dalit movement engaged in acts of 'emotion work' that upset such a social mapping of emotions. The paper engages critically with the sterile and biased concept of 'axiologic…
The making of a political stronghold: A Dalit neighbourhood's exit from the Hindu Nationalist riot system
This article highlights the contribution of political competition and people's movements to the dynamics of symbolization of space. In India, the symbolic appropriation of space represents an important yet under-explored local repertoire of collective action that impacts the contemporary reproduction of local subjectivities. This case study narrates the political conflict that occurred in a Dalit (Untouchable) basti of the North Indian city of Ka…
Politicizing victimhood: The Dalit Panthers' response to caste violence in Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s
In Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s, the Dalit Panthers' radical intervention in the field of dalit politics took place in a context of anti-dalit violence by the dominant castes. While Gandhi's consensual reformism dominated the public discourse on the untouchable question, a new generation of radicalized dalit youngsters sought their emancipation through the symbolic appropriation of violence. Focusing their politics on the dalit proletariat's …
Manju Devi's martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist politics and the rural poor in Bihar
The All India Agricultural Labourers Association (AIALA) was formed in 2003 by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) (CPI-ML Liberation), formerly an 'underground' Naxalite party, which adopted legal and democratic means in the early 1990's. Focusing on its main stronghold in the countryside of Bihar, this article analyses the way the economic struggles, social aspirations and aesthetic values of the rural proletariat are bei…
Politics Against the Grain: The Dalit Movement of Uttar Pradesh in the Throes of NGOization
The 'empowerment' approach to development adopted by international institutions has recently enabled the Indian Dalit movement to avail itself of western funds. This case study of a network of Dalit NGOs in Uttar Pradesh highlights how these funds are being used and to what political effect. It shows that in such a previously politicized context, politicized actors of the NGOization process actively defend a radical agenda that links up caste, cl…
Citizenship in religious clothing
B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) advocated the religious conversion of Dalits to Navayana Buddhism as the pillar of the future struggle against caste. This article examines the implications of this turn to religion for the Dalit movement. As shown by its convergence with Marx's critique of bourgeois citizenship, Navayana exceeds the framework of political liberalism. It is argued, though, that Navayana is neither an orientalized version of liberal poli…
Les statues d'Ambedkar en Inde: Répliques artisanales d’un monument et usages subalternes de l’officialité
Cet article revisite, du point de vue de la culture matérielle, un épisode majeur de l'histoire de la démocratie en Inde. La façon dont sont repris certains attributs typiques d'une stylistique officielle dans les statues d'Ambedkar installées par les militants dalits dans l'État de l'Uttar Pradesh invite à réfléchir aux usages populaires de l'officialité. Les multiples distorsions subies par l'esthétique officielle une fois retranscrite dans une…
Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia
No politics' says the roaring tiger that illustrates this special issue of SAMAJ. This sticker was bought from a street vendor in Kanpur, a city located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a celebration of the Ambedkar jayanti (birthday commemoration) in 2008. It is highly indicative of the way emotions can be valorized as pure and authentic expressions from the body, and pitted against regular politics, stigmatized as the impure realm o…
L’engagement des émigrés dalits. Idéologie et formation d’une conscience de diaspora
Cet article évoque la façon dont des militants dalits («intouchables») de la diaspora indienne ont transposé l'idéologie d'Ambedkar, leader du mouvement indien d'émancipation des dalits, en contexte diasporique. En revenant sur les grandes étapes et les principaux acteurs de cette mobilisation transnationale, l'auteur souligne le rôle d'une idéologie politique et d'un habitus militant dans l'émergence d’une conscience de diaspora
Beyond Diaspora: Ambedkarism, Multiculturalism and Caste in the UK
Based on the accounts of Dalit immigrants from Punjab who settled in the UK in the 1960s, this essay sheds light on the UK Ambedkarite movement’s political trajectory. How did the Anticaste philosophy of political emancipation retain its significance in the context of migration? Beyond the diasporic model of engagement that views the immigrants’ political interests as necessarily oriented towards the homeland, Ambedkarism negotiated and transgres…
Beyond citizenship
Does the dominant, statist conception of citizenship offer a satisfying framework to study the politicization of subaltern classes? This dialectical exploration of the political movements that emerge from the suppressed margins of Indian society questions their relationship to the state and its outcomes from the point of view of emancipation. As this special section shows, political ethnographers of "insurgent citizenship" among Dalits and Adivas…
La politique des images: Entretien de Kassia Aleksic avec Nicolas Jaoul à propos de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte
Cet entretien avec Nicolas Jaoul condense les réflexions qui ont accompagné la réalisation de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte (Sister Productions, 2018) tant sur un plan anthropologique, politique et cinématographique. Tournées au moment d’une enquête de thèse qui a duré 4 années, à la fin des années 90 dans l’Uttar Pradesh, en Inde du Nord, les images replongent les spectateur·trices dans le quotidien militant des « Dalits Panthers » et…
L'ambedkarisme: Abolir La Société De Castes Depuis Les Marges
Ambedkar 1 , auteur principal de la Constitution indienne et leader historique du mouvement dalit , fut aussi le théoricien radical de l'abolition de la caste, opposé au conservatisme de Gandhi. Nicolas Jaoul présente ici les résistances rencontrées par sa pensée et souligne l'importance des luttes des dalits pour sortir leur grand homme de l'oubli, ainsi que les paradoxes de la ghettoisation de ce mouvement
Grands Hommes vus d'en bas: L’iconographie officielle et ses usages populaires
Cet article propose d'aborder les images des grands hommes sous une perspective inédite. Par contraste avec les analyses déjà nombreuses consacrées à l'iconographie officielle, il s'agit de décaler le regard pour examiner comment la figure des hommes d'État fait l'objet d'appropriations qui échappent au registre de l'officiel tout en prenant appui sur lui. Ce changement de perspective permet de saisir les grands hommes non plus « par le haut », t…
L’engagement des émigrés dalits. Idéologie et formation d’une conscience de diaspora
Cet article évoque la façon dont des militants dalits («intouchables») de la diaspora indienne ont transposé l'idéologie d'Ambedkar, leader du mouvement indien d'émancipation des dalits, en contexte diasporique. En revenant sur les grandes étapes et les principaux acteurs de cette mobilisation transnationale, l'auteur souligne le rôle d'une idéologie politique et d'un habitus militant dans l'émergence d’une conscience de diaspora
Learning the use of symbolic means: Dalits, Ambedkar statues and the state in Uttar Pradesh
The Ambedkar statue stands as a major feature of the Dalit movement. In the media, the Dalit emphasis on symbolic politics has been dismissed as mere tokenism, and the Ambedkar icon has been denigrated as Westernised. Despite attempts at studying Dalit politics since the BSP became one of the key players in Uttar Pradesh, there has been a lack of scholarly attention to the deeper social changes involved in the Dalits' relationship with the state.…
Le point de vue des fonctionnaires dalits sur les quotas d’embauche de la fonction publique
Les quotas d’embauche du secteur public ont permis l’émergence d’une classe de fonctionnaires et de hauts fonctionnaires issus des milieux défavorisés et stigmatisés des « intouchables » (dalits). Cette politique a eu à terme un impact politique, puisque c’est par le biais de l’engagement de ces bénéficiaires qu’une revendication dalit a pu trouver une expression démocratique au cours des vingt dernières années. Alors qu’un mouvement d’opinion ho…
Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia
No politics' says the roaring tiger that illustrates this special issue of SAMAJ. This sticker was bought from a street vendor in Kanpur, a city located in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, during a celebration of the Ambedkar jayanti (birthday commemoration) in 2008. It is highly indicative of the way emotions can be valorized as pure and authentic expressions from the body, and pitted against regular politics, stigmatized as the impure realm o…
The 'Righteous Anger' of the PowerlessInvestigating Dalit Outrage over Caste Violence
This contribution brings to our attention a Dalit ('untouchable') protest movement against caste violence (the 2006 Khairlanji massacre). Although anger is supposedly an emotion used in an open and demonstrative manner by the powerful as a means to enact their domination, the Dalit movement engaged in acts of 'emotion work' that upset such a social mapping of emotions. The paper engages critically with the sterile and biased concept of 'axiologic…
Grands Hommes vus d'en bas: L’iconographie officielle et ses usages populaires
Cet article propose d'aborder les images des grands hommes sous une perspective inédite. Par contraste avec les analyses déjà nombreuses consacrées à l'iconographie officielle, il s'agit de décaler le regard pour examiner comment la figure des hommes d'État fait l'objet d'appropriations qui échappent au registre de l'officiel tout en prenant appui sur lui. Ce changement de perspective permet de saisir les grands hommes non plus « par le haut », t…
Les statues d'Ambedkar en Inde: Répliques artisanales d’un monument et usages subalternes de l’officialité
Cet article revisite, du point de vue de la culture matérielle, un épisode majeur de l'histoire de la démocratie en Inde. La façon dont sont repris certains attributs typiques d'une stylistique officielle dans les statues d'Ambedkar installées par les militants dalits dans l'État de l'Uttar Pradesh invite à réfléchir aux usages populaires de l'officialité. Les multiples distorsions subies par l'esthétique officielle une fois retranscrite dans une…
Manju Devi's martyrdom: Marxist-Leninist politics and the rural poor in Bihar
The All India Agricultural Labourers Association (AIALA) was formed in 2003 by the Communist Party of India-Marxist Leninist (Liberation) (CPI-ML Liberation), formerly an 'underground' Naxalite party, which adopted legal and democratic means in the early 1990's. Focusing on its main stronghold in the countryside of Bihar, this article analyses the way the economic struggles, social aspirations and aesthetic values of the rural proletariat are bei…
The making of a political stronghold: A Dalit neighbourhood's exit from the Hindu Nationalist riot system
This article highlights the contribution of political competition and people's movements to the dynamics of symbolization of space. In India, the symbolic appropriation of space represents an important yet under-explored local repertoire of collective action that impacts the contemporary reproduction of local subjectivities. This case study narrates the political conflict that occurred in a Dalit (Untouchable) basti of the North Indian city of Ka…
Politicizing victimhood: The Dalit Panthers' response to caste violence in Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s
In Uttar Pradesh in the early 1980s, the Dalit Panthers' radical intervention in the field of dalit politics took place in a context of anti-dalit violence by the dominant castes. While Gandhi's consensual reformism dominated the public discourse on the untouchable question, a new generation of radicalized dalit youngsters sought their emancipation through the symbolic appropriation of violence. Focusing their politics on the dalit proletariat's …
L'ambedkarisme: Abolir La Société De Castes Depuis Les Marges
Ambedkar 1 , auteur principal de la Constitution indienne et leader historique du mouvement dalit , fut aussi le théoricien radical de l'abolition de la caste, opposé au conservatisme de Gandhi. Nicolas Jaoul présente ici les résistances rencontrées par sa pensée et souligne l'importance des luttes des dalits pour sortir leur grand homme de l'oubli, ainsi que les paradoxes de la ghettoisation de ce mouvement
Política contra o grão. O movimento Dalit de Uttar Pradesh em meio à ONG-ização
Desde o final da década de 1990 a sociedade civil transnacional começou a abordar a questão da discriminação de castas na Índia. O que acontece com a"abordagem baseada nos direitos humanos oficiais" e seu corolário, "empoderamento", promovida pelas instituições internacionais, uma vez que adentram no domínio da política subalterna de emancipação? Este artigo é sobre o efeito da ONG-ização na trajetória política dos Dalits("intocáveis"). Depois de…
Citizenship in religious clothing
B. R. Ambedkar (1891-1956) advocated the religious conversion of Dalits to Navayana Buddhism as the pillar of the future struggle against caste. This article examines the implications of this turn to religion for the Dalit movement. As shown by its convergence with Marx's critique of bourgeois citizenship, Navayana exceeds the framework of political liberalism. It is argued, though, that Navayana is neither an orientalized version of liberal poli…
Beyond citizenship
Does the dominant, statist conception of citizenship offer a satisfying framework to study the politicization of subaltern classes? This dialectical exploration of the political movements that emerge from the suppressed margins of Indian society questions their relationship to the state and its outcomes from the point of view of emancipation. As this special section shows, political ethnographers of "insurgent citizenship" among Dalits and Adivas…
Politics Against the Grain: The Dalit Movement of Uttar Pradesh in the Throes of NGOization
The 'empowerment' approach to development adopted by international institutions has recently enabled the Indian Dalit movement to avail itself of western funds. This case study of a network of Dalit NGOs in Uttar Pradesh highlights how these funds are being used and to what political effect. It shows that in such a previously politicized context, politicized actors of the NGOization process actively defend a radical agenda that links up caste, cl…
Armed Resistance's Self-Defeat? The Predicaments of India's People's War
La politique des réfugié-e-s. Échos de La Chapelle en Lutte, juin-juillet 2015
Après avoir évoqué le concept de la subjectivation politique et la manière dont la subjectivité politique a été abordée dans les études migratoires, l’article se penche sur les réflexions de migrant-e-s acteurs de la mobilisation dans le quartier de la Chapelle à Paris en juin et juillet 2015. Tout en revenant sur le choix des migrant-e-s de se positionner en tant que demandeurs d’asile face à des soutiens les incitant à rejoindre la lutte des sa…
La politique des images: Entretien de Kassia Aleksic avec Nicolas Jaoul à propos de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte
Cet entretien avec Nicolas Jaoul condense les réflexions qui ont accompagné la réalisation de son film Sangharsh, le temps de la lutte (Sister Productions, 2018) tant sur un plan anthropologique, politique et cinématographique. Tournées au moment d’une enquête de thèse qui a duré 4 années, à la fin des années 90 dans l’Uttar Pradesh, en Inde du Nord, les images replongent les spectateur·trices dans le quotidien militant des « Dalits Panthers » et…
Confronting Denials of Casteism: An Interview with Prof. Meena Dhanda, a UK-Based Anti-caste Academic Activist
Punjab
Beyond Diaspora: Ambedkarism, Multiculturalism and Caste in the UK
Based on the accounts of Dalit immigrants from Punjab who settled in the UK in the 1960s, this essay sheds light on the UK Ambedkarite movement’s political trajectory. How did the Anticaste philosophy of political emancipation retain its significance in the context of migration? Beyond the diasporic model of engagement that views the immigrants’ political interests as necessarily oriented towards the homeland, Ambedkarism negotiated and transgres…
Anand Teltumbde, Khairlanji. A Strange and Bitter Crop
The importance of the Khairlanji events lies partly, but not mainly, in the exceptional degree of cruelty displayed by the village mob when it engaged, in broad daylight, in the murder and collective rape of four members of a Dalit family. After all, events of caste-based violence have occurred regularly in Indian villages since the 1970s, when the dynamics of Dalit emancipation threatened to upset the rural traditional order. Khairlanji’s histor…
Élections en Inde: La politique des marges marque un point
Revisiter la démocratie indienne avec « L'Équilibre du Monde » de Rohinton Mistry, entre réalisme et transgressions
Prenant en défaut une posture qui consiste à voir de véritables ethnographes chez les grands écrivains, le roman dont il est question ici ne repose sur aucune enquête. À partir de l'expérience vécue de deux dalits pendant la période de l'état d'urgence, il permet pourtant de sonder les failles de la démocratie indienne et de combler un long silence sur cette période des études indiennes, auxquelles ce témoignage littéraire a même eu tendance à se…
The Indian farmers’ protest of 2020-2021: Agrarian crisis, dissent and identity
Rethinking contemporary India with Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance: Between Realism and Transgression
The novel in question here is not based on any kind of survey, but on the experience of two Dalits during the state of emergency. By imagining their life experience, it does, however, probe certain aspects of this period which Indian studies failed to address until very recently. Considering that literary and scientific writing are increasingly bound to intersect and influence each other, it is useful to consider all the implications of this perm…
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