Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha
Biographic Data
| ID | 117642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anindya Sekhar |
| FAMILY NAME | Purakayastha |
| SIGNATURE | PURAKAYASTHA A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kazi Nazrul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4287-9108 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Engage-wl-4219-Critique in Dark Times
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Frankfurt School Critical Theory and being besieged today with ongoing sectarian violence, rising authoritarianism, crisis of liberal democracy and brutal economic Darwinism, how much do we gain by revisiting the fundamentals of Frankfurt School social critique which brilliantly explained ethnocentrism, the Second World War and global capitalism? Along with its founding fathers, how do we approach contempo…
Special Issue Introduction
on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
Virus as a figure of geontopower or how to practice Foucault now
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor at Columbia University, is a philosopher and anthropologist who has critically engaged with Michel Foucault's ideas as well as scholarship inspired by his works. Povinelli has been dedicated to research on colonialism within liberalism and is also a filmmaker and founding member of The Karrabing Film Collective. The film collective is part of a larger organization of Aboriginal peoples and artists livi…
Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India
Deleuze and Guattari and Terror
Considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror Contains a new philosophical analysis of global terror and state reactions, as well as military aggression Argues for a micro-level understanding of terror and counter-terror from the perspective of axiomatic thinking on power, violence and structures of dominations Considers different aspects of terror and analyses t…
Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India
Historicizing Social Conflicts, Its Major Strands
New Grammar of Protests in Contemporary India
Occupying political science
A large number of works on the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) already exist. By the editors’ own admission, the present book under review is an addition to that burgeoning list. What makes this
Scatologising Hindu Eschatology
The Indian prime minister’s clarion call for a ‘Swachh Bharat’ or ‘transparent India’ officially seeks to cleanse the image of a ‘squatting’ nation through building ‘toilets first, temples later’ (‘Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya’)—a laudable slogan that sounds bizarre when heard from the member of a nationalist ‘Hindutvavadi’ political group that usually prioritises hardcore religious sentiments over civic issues. Keeping in mind the traditional H…
Death Penalty
Being Muslim in South Asia
Countering naxalism with development
Countering naxalism with development: challenges of social justice and state security." Contemporary South Asia, 24(2), pp. 215–216
After the end of conceit and theory
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism: South Asian readings in postcolonialism." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 236–237
South Asia from the margins
Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy
Envisioning strategies of the formation of political agency born out of the dynamics of domination, conflict, and emancipation occupies the central focus of Massimo Modonesi's Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy: Constructing the Political Subject. It attempts a recuperation of Marxian analytical tools built around the conceptual categorical triad of subalternity, antagonism, and autonomy. These theoretical categories are analyzed through a ri…
Postcolonial Agonistic Demo-crazy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnindya Sekhar PurakayasthaAnindya Sekhar Purakayastha teaches in the Department of English, SKB University, Purulia, India. He has contributed to the journals Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Historical Materialism, Journal of Post-colonial Cultures & Societies and History and Sociology of South Asia, among others. His book Arcana Imperri. Recolonisation and the Dissidence of Arund…
India today
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(3), pp. 369–370
Absolutist Democracy, Homo Sacer and the Resistance of Bare Life
The pathologies or aberrations of democracy demand critical analysis and the growing incidents of human rights violation and the repressive mechanisms of statecraft/marketocracy in the name of democracy call for a radical reformulation of existing democratic paradigms. Democracy in its existing avatar is flawed and it needs some restructuring or philosophic radicalisation. Continental thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have betr…
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism: South Asian readings in postcolonialism." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 236–237
India today
Scatologising Hindu Eschatology
The Indian prime minister’s clarion call for a ‘Swachh Bharat’ or ‘transparent India’ officially seeks to cleanse the image of a ‘squatting’ nation through building ‘toilets first, temples later’ (‘Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya’)—a laudable slogan that sounds bizarre when heard from the member of a nationalist ‘Hindutvavadi’ political group that usually prioritises hardcore religious sentiments over civic issues. Keeping in mind the traditional H…
Special Issue Introduction
on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
Being Muslim in South Asia
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(3), pp. 369–370
Absolutist Democracy, Homo Sacer and the Resistance of Bare Life
The pathologies or aberrations of democracy demand critical analysis and the growing incidents of human rights violation and the repressive mechanisms of statecraft/marketocracy in the name of democracy call for a radical reformulation of existing democratic paradigms. Democracy in its existing avatar is flawed and it needs some restructuring or philosophic radicalisation. Continental thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have betr…
Postcolonial Agonistic Demo-crazy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnindya Sekhar PurakayasthaAnindya Sekhar Purakayastha teaches in the Department of English, SKB University, Purulia, India. He has contributed to the journals Postcolonial Studies, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Historical Materialism, Journal of Post-colonial Cultures & Societies and History and Sociology of South Asia, among others. His book Arcana Imperri. Recolonisation and the Dissidence of Arund…
India today
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital
Postcolonial theory and the specter of capital." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 50(3), pp. 369–370
South Asia from the margins
Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy
Envisioning strategies of the formation of political agency born out of the dynamics of domination, conflict, and emancipation occupies the central focus of Massimo Modonesi's Subalternity, Antagonism, and Autonomy: Constructing the Political Subject. It attempts a recuperation of Marxian analytical tools built around the conceptual categorical triad of subalternity, antagonism, and autonomy. These theoretical categories are analyzed through a ri…
Scatologising Hindu Eschatology
The Indian prime minister’s clarion call for a ‘Swachh Bharat’ or ‘transparent India’ officially seeks to cleanse the image of a ‘squatting’ nation through building ‘toilets first, temples later’ (‘Devalaya Se Pehle Shauchalaya’)—a laudable slogan that sounds bizarre when heard from the member of a nationalist ‘Hindutvavadi’ political group that usually prioritises hardcore religious sentiments over civic issues. Keeping in mind the traditional H…
Death Penalty
Being Muslim in South Asia
Countering naxalism with development
Countering naxalism with development: challenges of social justice and state security." Contemporary South Asia, 24(2), pp. 215–216
After the end of conceit and theory
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism
Orientalism, terrorism, indigenism: South Asian readings in postcolonialism." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 236–237
Occupying political science
A large number of works on the Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) already exist. By the editors’ own admission, the present book under review is an addition to that burgeoning list. What makes this
Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India
Deleuze and Guattari and Terror
Considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror Contains a new philosophical analysis of global terror and state reactions, as well as military aggression Argues for a micro-level understanding of terror and counter-terror from the perspective of axiomatic thinking on power, violence and structures of dominations Considers different aspects of terror and analyses t…
Social Movements, Media and Civil Society in Contemporary India
Historicizing Social Conflicts, Its Major Strands
New Grammar of Protests in Contemporary India
Special Issue Introduction
on-covid-19-final-report.pdf
Virus as a figure of geontopower or how to practice Foucault now
Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Franz Boas Professor at Columbia University, is a philosopher and anthropologist who has critically engaged with Michel Foucault's ideas as well as scholarship inspired by his works. Povinelli has been dedicated to research on colonialism within liberalism and is also a filmmaker and founding member of The Karrabing Film Collective. The film collective is part of a larger organization of Aboriginal peoples and artists livi…
Engage-wl-4219-Critique in Dark Times
The year 2023 marks the centenary of the Frankfurt School Critical Theory and being besieged today with ongoing sectarian violence, rising authoritarianism, crisis of liberal democracy and brutal economic Darwinism, how much do we gain by revisiting the fundamentals of Frankfurt School social critique which brilliantly explained ethnocentrism, the Second World War and global capitalism? Along with its founding fathers, how do we approach contempo…
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