Nitasha Kaul
Biographic Data
| ID | 162618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nitasha Kaul |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nitasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaul |
| SIGNATURE | KAUL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2245-0171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Trump’s new America and the question of fascism
The United States is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. In this article, we offer a novel and original early analysis of New America (Trump 2.0) as a contemporary political project on a protofascist trajectory. Our analysis contributes to scholarly understanding in multiple different ways. First, it grounds present American warnings about fascism in their specific historical tradition, showing how current alarm over Trump 2.0 continues, r…
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Cartographic representations of Kashmir and Taiwan act as sites upon which Indian and Chinese state power is exercised to govern the logics of visibility and legibility for these two regions. Despite the differences in regime type, these major non-Western powers represent Kashmir and Taiwan respectively as internal and integral parts of their sovereign territorial form. In this article, we consider two cases that have not hitherto been studied to…
Introduction. The Himalayas from its edges: Networks, identities and place-making
While the perspectives of sovereign nation-states have tended to dominate how the Tibeto-Himalayan region has been shaped, viewed and lived in the last century, we argue for adoption of multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on flows and interactions rather than the limited frames of state-centred exchanges. Collating empirically grounded studies from different parts of the Himalayas, this special issue highlights the cross-border networks, ne…
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in democracies
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, specifically through sensory repression of dissent. Although accented as non-lethal, NLWs are better conceived of as what we term ‘Weapons of Sensory Repression’ (WSRs). From tear gas to sound cannons to skunk bombs and more, WSRs target the human senses – visual, auditory, …
Misogyny, authoritarianism, and climate change
Globally, democratic politics are under attack from Electorally Legitimated Misogynist Authoritarian (ELMA) leaders who successfully use misogyny as a political strategy and present environmental concern in feminine and inferior terms. The ascendancy of such projects raise questions involving socioeconomic structures, political communication, and the psychological underpinnings of people's attitudes. We offer misogyny, conceptualized in a specifi…
Challenging Nation-Statism: Political Boundaries and Bodies at the Border
Critical scholarship can be a way of enacting insurrections against entrenched and enduring dogmatisms of the nation-state and its inalienable right to systematically deploy violence against selective Others. This article focuses upon the violent bordering practices of the nation-statist system, their connexion to the bordering of knowledges, and their impact upon specific kinds of bodies at the border, which together enforce a systemic vulnerabi…
Himalayan Studies Conference (HSC6), the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), University of Toronto, Canada, 13–16 October 2022
The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) conference – HSC6 or the 6th Himalayan Studies Conference – was held at the University of Toronto on 13–16 October 2022. The ANHS is an academic organisation based in the United States that traces its history half a century back to 1971 when the Nepal Studies Association (NSA) was founded after a meeting of Nepal-focused scholars at the Association for Asian Studies. Supported by a Ford Found…
Friendship and International Relations in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Britain, and the 1910 Treaty of Punakha
This article posits that friendship has been a particularly fertile and creative category against the backdrop of imperial expansion and consolidation in the Himalayas. As a small but strategically perceived sovereign Himalayan country, Bhutan's history through the last centuries has been marked simultaneously by imperial and post-colonial asymmetries of power. The term “friendship” is deployed as a key diplomatic category in Bhutan's most signif…
Beyond India and China: Bhutan as a Small State in International Relations
This article makes a novel contribution to the literature on Bhutan’s International Relations (IR) by shifting the focus away from an exclusively India–China framing. First, it points out how small states are increasingly salient but under-studied in IR and how non-European non-island states like Bhutan are even more so, and why we gain by addressing this. Second, it shows how the conventional study of Bhutan has solely focused on its friendship …
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populism, cultural majoritarianism, new nativism, new nationalism, quasi-fascism, and neo-fascism. While the authoritarian behaviors of several electorally legitimated leaders in these countries have been in focus, their misogyny is seen as merely an incidental part of their personality. This article highlight…
The Persistence of Political Power: A Communist ‘Party Village’ in Kerala and the Paradox of Egalitarian Hierarchies
This article combines political analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to theorise Communist party’s construction of political allegiance and their persistence of power in the democratic context at a local village level in the state of Kerala in India. We provide an inaugural scholarly conceptualisation of an empirical phenomenon, known in Kerala popular parlance as ‘ party gramam ’ or the ‘party village’, as the focus of analysis. As we explain, a…
Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production
Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding the place and people through accounts that combine narratives of travel and strategy. In this article, I interrogate the complexly layered itinerary of such accounts to demonstrate how their imperial ethos has either been ignored or underplayed. I critically analyse the systematicity, selectivity, and the positionality in knowled…
Small state, big example: Covid pandemic management in Bhutan
In a world with drastic and exacerbating inequalities where health and well-being have been supplanted by wealth and hell being, the pandemic is a complex global occurrence that affected different
Coloniality and/as Development in Kashmir: Econonationalism
This article identifies the colonial imperative of 'we must develop them, with or without their consent', which is used by the Indian state in order to dominate Kashmiri Muslims, and argues that this notion of development combines patriarchal silencing of the subjugated as well as a gendered fantasy of liberating oppressed Kashmiri women and minorities. While the colonial nature of Indian rule over Kashmir has been a long-term phenomenon, the foc…
"Where Is Bhutan?" The Production of Bhutan's Asymmetrical Inbetweenness in Geopolitics
In this article, I interrogate the exhaustive "inbetweenness" through which Bhutan is understood and located on a map ("inbetween India and China"). I argue that this understanding naturalizes a contemporary geopolitics with little depth about how this inbetweenness has shifted over the centuries, thereby constructing a timeless, obscure, and remote Bhutan that is "naturally" oriented southward. I trace how the construction of Bhutan's asymmetric…
China: Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir
Kashmir and Xinjiang share a border. Or, more precisely, the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir that is now divided between India, Pakistan, and China (and officially known as Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh; Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan; Aksai Chin, respectively) shares a border with eastern Turkestan and Tibet—currently officially called Xinjiang and Xizang. In addition to this geographic proximity, Kashmir and Xinjiang are marked by a compl…
India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism
This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multifaceted dehumanisation of Kashmiris and, in turn, domesticates dissent on the question of Kashmir within India. This scenario has been enabled by the persuasive appeal of a gendered masculinist nationalist neoli…
Rise of the Political Right in India: Hindutva-Development Mix, Modi Myth, and Dualities
We are witnessing a global phenomenon of the rise of right-wing leaders who combine nationalist rhetoric with a claim to challenge the pernicious effects of neoliberalism. But, upon achieving power, they do not oppose the business elite, instead, while paying lip service to the victims of economic processes, they direct the blame for those structural problems upon the minorities and ‘Others’ within the rightwing nationalist imagination. In the In…
Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar
A disruptive ethnography of Tanzanian-Indians
This paper is a disruptive ethnography of Indians in Tanzania (Tanzanian-Indians). It uses narratives of individuals to challenge the popular ethnographic categories within which the individuals are usually subsumed. This paper analyses three critical questions concerning Category, Homeland and Community. Is the category Mhindi (‘Indian’ in Kiswahili) exhaustive as a cultural identity? What is the relationship of Tanzanian-Indians to their ‘homel…
Elderly single women and urban property: When a room of one's own becomes a curse
In this article, I rely upon the case study of a single, lower-middle-class woman from Delhi, to gain understanding of the everyday experience (rather than the right) of property ownership in an urban setting. The story will show how the right to property is not an end in itself. The actual experience of exercising the right is mediated through gender and socio-cultural interactions within the local community. In a context where the legal and adm…
The House I'll Soon Give Up
The poem seeks to upset conventional common sense about the desirability of property ownership. The root word “property” echoes not only of possession but also deprivation and appropriation, and a mortgage is literally a death-pledge. Not owning a house, if you can, or not wanting to, if you can't, is seen as madness and irrationality. Yet, defying this economic logic can be a way of affirming the temporariness of life and the strangeness of mark…
Unscheduled Halt
Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States
Journal Article Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States Get access By (Paulette I.) Olson and (Zohreh) Emami. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002. US $31.95 paperback, US $120.00 hard back. ISBN 0 415 20556 5, 0 415 20555 7.) Nitasha Kaul Nitasha Kaul University of the West of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issue 485, Febr…
A critical 'post' to critical realism
The aim of this paper is to initiate a dialogue between critical realism (CR) and what is termed a ‘post'ist perspective’. This amalgamated perspective is composed of relatively recent transdisciplinary theoretical approaches such as poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism and postcolonial theory. Such a conversation between CR and post'isms within economics has not been attempted before. I shall argue that this uncommon methodological exchan…
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populism, cultural majoritarianism, new nativism, new nationalism, quasi-fascism, and neo-fascism. While the authoritarian behaviors of several electorally legitimated leaders in these countries have been in focus, their misogyny is seen as merely an incidental part of their personality. This article highlight…
Rise of the Political Right in India: Hindutva-Development Mix, Modi Myth, and Dualities
We are witnessing a global phenomenon of the rise of right-wing leaders who combine nationalist rhetoric with a claim to challenge the pernicious effects of neoliberalism. But, upon achieving power, they do not oppose the business elite, instead, while paying lip service to the victims of economic processes, they direct the blame for those structural problems upon the minorities and ‘Others’ within the rightwing nationalist imagination. In the In…
India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism
This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multifaceted dehumanisation of Kashmiris and, in turn, domesticates dissent on the question of Kashmir within India. This scenario has been enabled by the persuasive appeal of a gendered masculinist nationalist neoli…
The Persistence of Political Power: A Communist ‘Party Village’ in Kerala and the Paradox of Egalitarian Hierarchies
This article combines political analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to theorise Communist party’s construction of political allegiance and their persistence of power in the democratic context at a local village level in the state of Kerala in India. We provide an inaugural scholarly conceptualisation of an empirical phenomenon, known in Kerala popular parlance as ‘ party gramam ’ or the ‘party village’, as the focus of analysis. As we explain, a…
Coloniality and/as Development in Kashmir: Econonationalism
This article identifies the colonial imperative of 'we must develop them, with or without their consent', which is used by the Indian state in order to dominate Kashmiri Muslims, and argues that this notion of development combines patriarchal silencing of the subjugated as well as a gendered fantasy of liberating oppressed Kashmiri women and minorities. While the colonial nature of Indian rule over Kashmir has been a long-term phenomenon, the foc…
A critical 'post' to critical realism
The aim of this paper is to initiate a dialogue between critical realism (CR) and what is termed a ‘post'ist perspective’. This amalgamated perspective is composed of relatively recent transdisciplinary theoretical approaches such as poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism and postcolonial theory. Such a conversation between CR and post'isms within economics has not been attempted before. I shall argue that this uncommon methodological exchan…
Beyond India and China: Bhutan as a Small State in International Relations
This article makes a novel contribution to the literature on Bhutan’s International Relations (IR) by shifting the focus away from an exclusively India–China framing. First, it points out how small states are increasingly salient but under-studied in IR and how non-European non-island states like Bhutan are even more so, and why we gain by addressing this. Second, it shows how the conventional study of Bhutan has solely focused on its friendship …
China: Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir
Kashmir and Xinjiang share a border. Or, more precisely, the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir that is now divided between India, Pakistan, and China (and officially known as Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh; Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan; Aksai Chin, respectively) shares a border with eastern Turkestan and Tibet—currently officially called Xinjiang and Xizang. In addition to this geographic proximity, Kashmir and Xinjiang are marked by a compl…
Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States
Journal Article Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States Get access By (Paulette I.) Olson and (Zohreh) Emami. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002. US $31.95 paperback, US $120.00 hard back. ISBN 0 415 20556 5, 0 415 20555 7.) Nitasha Kaul Nitasha Kaul University of the West of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issue 485, Febr…
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Cartographic representations of Kashmir and Taiwan act as sites upon which Indian and Chinese state power is exercised to govern the logics of visibility and legibility for these two regions. Despite the differences in regime type, these major non-Western powers represent Kashmir and Taiwan respectively as internal and integral parts of their sovereign territorial form. In this article, we consider two cases that have not hitherto been studied to…
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in democracies
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, specifically through sensory repression of dissent. Although accented as non-lethal, NLWs are better conceived of as what we term ‘Weapons of Sensory Repression’ (WSRs). From tear gas to sound cannons to skunk bombs and more, WSRs target the human senses – visual, auditory, …
Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production
Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding the place and people through accounts that combine narratives of travel and strategy. In this article, I interrogate the complexly layered itinerary of such accounts to demonstrate how their imperial ethos has either been ignored or underplayed. I critically analyse the systematicity, selectivity, and the positionality in knowled…
"Where Is Bhutan?" The Production of Bhutan's Asymmetrical Inbetweenness in Geopolitics
In this article, I interrogate the exhaustive "inbetweenness" through which Bhutan is understood and located on a map ("inbetween India and China"). I argue that this understanding naturalizes a contemporary geopolitics with little depth about how this inbetweenness has shifted over the centuries, thereby constructing a timeless, obscure, and remote Bhutan that is "naturally" oriented southward. I trace how the construction of Bhutan's asymmetric…
A critical 'post' to critical realism
The aim of this paper is to initiate a dialogue between critical realism (CR) and what is termed a ‘post'ist perspective’. This amalgamated perspective is composed of relatively recent transdisciplinary theoretical approaches such as poststructuralism, deconstruction, feminism and postcolonial theory. Such a conversation between CR and post'isms within economics has not been attempted before. I shall argue that this uncommon methodological exchan…
Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States
Journal Article Engendering Economics: Conversations with Women Economists in the United States Get access By (Paulette I.) Olson and (Zohreh) Emami. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002. US $31.95 paperback, US $120.00 hard back. ISBN 0 415 20556 5, 0 415 20555 7.) Nitasha Kaul Nitasha Kaul University of the West of England Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 113, Issue 485, Febr…
Unscheduled Halt
Elderly single women and urban property: When a room of one's own becomes a curse
In this article, I rely upon the case study of a single, lower-middle-class woman from Delhi, to gain understanding of the everyday experience (rather than the right) of property ownership in an urban setting. The story will show how the right to property is not an end in itself. The actual experience of exercising the right is mediated through gender and socio-cultural interactions within the local community. In a context where the legal and adm…
The House I'll Soon Give Up
The poem seeks to upset conventional common sense about the desirability of property ownership. The root word “property” echoes not only of possession but also deprivation and appropriation, and a mortgage is literally a death-pledge. Not owning a house, if you can, or not wanting to, if you can't, is seen as madness and irrationality. Yet, defying this economic logic can be a way of affirming the temporariness of life and the strangeness of mark…
Cultural econo-mixes of the bazaar
A disruptive ethnography of Tanzanian-Indians
This paper is a disruptive ethnography of Indians in Tanzania (Tanzanian-Indians). It uses narratives of individuals to challenge the popular ethnographic categories within which the individuals are usually subsumed. This paper analyses three critical questions concerning Category, Homeland and Community. Is the category Mhindi (‘Indian’ in Kiswahili) exhaustive as a cultural identity? What is the relationship of Tanzanian-Indians to their ‘homel…
Rise of the Political Right in India: Hindutva-Development Mix, Modi Myth, and Dualities
We are witnessing a global phenomenon of the rise of right-wing leaders who combine nationalist rhetoric with a claim to challenge the pernicious effects of neoliberalism. But, upon achieving power, they do not oppose the business elite, instead, while paying lip service to the victims of economic processes, they direct the blame for those structural problems upon the minorities and ‘Others’ within the rightwing nationalist imagination. In the In…
India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism
This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multifaceted dehumanisation of Kashmiris and, in turn, domesticates dissent on the question of Kashmir within India. This scenario has been enabled by the persuasive appeal of a gendered masculinist nationalist neoli…
China: Xinjiang :: India : Kashmir
Kashmir and Xinjiang share a border. Or, more precisely, the erstwhile princely state of Kashmir that is now divided between India, Pakistan, and China (and officially known as Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh; Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan; Aksai Chin, respectively) shares a border with eastern Turkestan and Tibet—currently officially called Xinjiang and Xizang. In addition to this geographic proximity, Kashmir and Xinjiang are marked by a compl…
Beyond India and China: Bhutan as a Small State in International Relations
This article makes a novel contribution to the literature on Bhutan’s International Relations (IR) by shifting the focus away from an exclusively India–China framing. First, it points out how small states are increasingly salient but under-studied in IR and how non-European non-island states like Bhutan are even more so, and why we gain by addressing this. Second, it shows how the conventional study of Bhutan has solely focused on its friendship …
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populism, cultural majoritarianism, new nativism, new nationalism, quasi-fascism, and neo-fascism. While the authoritarian behaviors of several electorally legitimated leaders in these countries have been in focus, their misogyny is seen as merely an incidental part of their personality. This article highlight…
The Persistence of Political Power: A Communist ‘Party Village’ in Kerala and the Paradox of Egalitarian Hierarchies
This article combines political analysis with ethnographic fieldwork to theorise Communist party’s construction of political allegiance and their persistence of power in the democratic context at a local village level in the state of Kerala in India. We provide an inaugural scholarly conceptualisation of an empirical phenomenon, known in Kerala popular parlance as ‘ party gramam ’ or the ‘party village’, as the focus of analysis. As we explain, a…
Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production
Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding the place and people through accounts that combine narratives of travel and strategy. In this article, I interrogate the complexly layered itinerary of such accounts to demonstrate how their imperial ethos has either been ignored or underplayed. I critically analyse the systematicity, selectivity, and the positionality in knowled…
Small state, big example: Covid pandemic management in Bhutan
In a world with drastic and exacerbating inequalities where health and well-being have been supplanted by wealth and hell being, the pandemic is a complex global occurrence that affected different
Coloniality and/as Development in Kashmir: Econonationalism
This article identifies the colonial imperative of 'we must develop them, with or without their consent', which is used by the Indian state in order to dominate Kashmiri Muslims, and argues that this notion of development combines patriarchal silencing of the subjugated as well as a gendered fantasy of liberating oppressed Kashmiri women and minorities. While the colonial nature of Indian rule over Kashmir has been a long-term phenomenon, the foc…
"Where Is Bhutan?" The Production of Bhutan's Asymmetrical Inbetweenness in Geopolitics
In this article, I interrogate the exhaustive "inbetweenness" through which Bhutan is understood and located on a map ("inbetween India and China"). I argue that this understanding naturalizes a contemporary geopolitics with little depth about how this inbetweenness has shifted over the centuries, thereby constructing a timeless, obscure, and remote Bhutan that is "naturally" oriented southward. I trace how the construction of Bhutan's asymmetric…
Himalayan Studies Conference (HSC6), the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS), University of Toronto, Canada, 13–16 October 2022
The Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) conference – HSC6 or the 6th Himalayan Studies Conference – was held at the University of Toronto on 13–16 October 2022. The ANHS is an academic organisation based in the United States that traces its history half a century back to 1971 when the Nepal Studies Association (NSA) was founded after a meeting of Nepal-focused scholars at the Association for Asian Studies. Supported by a Ford Found…
Friendship and International Relations in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Britain, and the 1910 Treaty of Punakha
This article posits that friendship has been a particularly fertile and creative category against the backdrop of imperial expansion and consolidation in the Himalayas. As a small but strategically perceived sovereign Himalayan country, Bhutan's history through the last centuries has been marked simultaneously by imperial and post-colonial asymmetries of power. The term “friendship” is deployed as a key diplomatic category in Bhutan's most signif…
Misogyny, authoritarianism, and climate change
Globally, democratic politics are under attack from Electorally Legitimated Misogynist Authoritarian (ELMA) leaders who successfully use misogyny as a political strategy and present environmental concern in feminine and inferior terms. The ascendancy of such projects raise questions involving socioeconomic structures, political communication, and the psychological underpinnings of people's attitudes. We offer misogyny, conceptualized in a specifi…
Challenging Nation-Statism: Political Boundaries and Bodies at the Border
Critical scholarship can be a way of enacting insurrections against entrenched and enduring dogmatisms of the nation-state and its inalienable right to systematically deploy violence against selective Others. This article focuses upon the violent bordering practices of the nation-statist system, their connexion to the bordering of knowledges, and their impact upon specific kinds of bodies at the border, which together enforce a systemic vulnerabi…
Introduction. The Himalayas from its edges: Networks, identities and place-making
While the perspectives of sovereign nation-states have tended to dominate how the Tibeto-Himalayan region has been shaped, viewed and lived in the last century, we argue for adoption of multidisciplinary perspectives that focus on flows and interactions rather than the limited frames of state-centred exchanges. Collating empirically grounded studies from different parts of the Himalayas, this special issue highlights the cross-border networks, ne…
Non-lethal weapons and the sensory repression of dissent in democracies
This article examines the use of ‘non-lethal’ weapons (NLWs) by liberal democracies to govern dissent in non-war contexts. We argue that NLWs can enable sensorial governance, specifically through sensory repression of dissent. Although accented as non-lethal, NLWs are better conceived of as what we term ‘Weapons of Sensory Repression’ (WSRs). From tear gas to sound cannons to skunk bombs and more, WSRs target the human senses – visual, auditory, …
Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: Kashmir and Taiwan
Cartographic representations of Kashmir and Taiwan act as sites upon which Indian and Chinese state power is exercised to govern the logics of visibility and legibility for these two regions. Despite the differences in regime type, these major non-Western powers represent Kashmir and Taiwan respectively as internal and integral parts of their sovereign territorial form. In this article, we consider two cases that have not hitherto been studied to…
Trump’s new America and the question of fascism
The United States is undergoing a revolutionary transformation. In this article, we offer a novel and original early analysis of New America (Trump 2.0) as a contemporary political project on a protofascist trajectory. Our analysis contributes to scholarly understanding in multiple different ways. First, it grounds present American warnings about fascism in their specific historical tradition, showing how current alarm over Trump 2.0 continues, r…
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