Renuka Chaturvedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 177373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renuka Chaturvedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renuka |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaturvedi |
| SIGNATURE | CHATURVEDI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1783-8398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
For a New Humanity: A Conversation . . . in Two Acts
This interview with Makhosazana Xaba, renowned South African feminist poet and writer, centers on Izimpabanga Zomhlaba (2024), Xaba's isiZulu translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Excerpted from a longer conversation, Act 1 of the interview dwells on the practice and politics of translanguaging and the relationship between peace, freedom, and translation among African vernacular languages. The incomplete nature of freedo…
Race and Caste: Crises and Histories of the Postcolonial Contemporary
This essay argues that a new postcolonial critique is necessary in the face of resurgent supremacist ideologies. In order to lay the grounds for such a critique, this article maps the overlapping histories of race and caste across South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It posits that the ongoing crisis and stasis of the postcolonial contemporary calls for reckoning with the long pasts and presents of derogation that inform and precipitate quotidi…
Violence, Democracy, and the Major-Minor Question
This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for elected party and government positions in postapartheid South Africa. The discussion focuses on describing the relationship be…
Agentive Capacities, Democratic Possibilities, and the Urban Poor: Rethinking Recent Popular Protests in West Africa
Political violence, community and its limits in Kannur, Kerala
This article analyses communities that the blue-collar, backward caste, local-level workers of the party Left and the Hindu Right have forged amongst themselves in the Kannur district of Kerala. Its particular focus is on members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). For more than four decades, members of the CPI (M) and the Hindu Right have been involved in an intermittent but occasionally intense conflict. Their conflict highligh…
Somehow It Happened: Violence, Culpability, and the Hindu Nationalist Community
For more than four decades, local-level workers of the Marxist Left and Hindu Right in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been involved in a grievous political conflict. Drawing on my ethnography among members of the two groups, I describe how responsibility for this violence has been elided and effaced especially among members of the Hindu nationalist group, Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS). Crucial to this elision has been the workers' …
The short-term, medium-term, and long-term economic performance of immigrant women in Canada and the United States
Political violence, community and its limits in Kannur, Kerala
This article analyses communities that the blue-collar, backward caste, local-level workers of the party Left and the Hindu Right have forged amongst themselves in the Kannur district of Kerala. Its particular focus is on members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). For more than four decades, members of the CPI (M) and the Hindu Right have been involved in an intermittent but occasionally intense conflict. Their conflict highligh…
Somehow It Happened: Violence, Culpability, and the Hindu Nationalist Community
For more than four decades, local-level workers of the Marxist Left and Hindu Right in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been involved in a grievous political conflict. Drawing on my ethnography among members of the two groups, I describe how responsibility for this violence has been elided and effaced especially among members of the Hindu nationalist group, Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS). Crucial to this elision has been the workers' …
Agentive Capacities, Democratic Possibilities, and the Urban Poor: Rethinking Recent Popular Protests in West Africa
Violence, Democracy, and the Major-Minor Question
This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for elected party and government positions in postapartheid South Africa. The discussion focuses on describing the relationship be…
The short-term, medium-term, and long-term economic performance of immigrant women in Canada and the United States
Somehow It Happened: Violence, Culpability, and the Hindu Nationalist Community
For more than four decades, local-level workers of the Marxist Left and Hindu Right in the southern Indian state of Kerala have been involved in a grievous political conflict. Drawing on my ethnography among members of the two groups, I describe how responsibility for this violence has been elided and effaced especially among members of the Hindu nationalist group, Rashtriya Swayam Sewak Sangh (RSS). Crucial to this elision has been the workers' …
Political violence, community and its limits in Kannur, Kerala
This article analyses communities that the blue-collar, backward caste, local-level workers of the party Left and the Hindu Right have forged amongst themselves in the Kannur district of Kerala. Its particular focus is on members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI (M)). For more than four decades, members of the CPI (M) and the Hindu Right have been involved in an intermittent but occasionally intense conflict. Their conflict highligh…
Agentive Capacities, Democratic Possibilities, and the Urban Poor: Rethinking Recent Popular Protests in West Africa
Violence, Democracy, and the Major-Minor Question
This essay revolves around different types of violence witnessed in political society and their relationship to the democratic form that many postcolonial states have inherited. It especially draws on studies of popular protests, negrophobic and xenophobic violence against lower-income migrants, and deadly competition for elected party and government positions in postapartheid South Africa. The discussion focuses on describing the relationship be…
For a New Humanity: A Conversation . . . in Two Acts
This interview with Makhosazana Xaba, renowned South African feminist poet and writer, centers on Izimpabanga Zomhlaba (2024), Xaba's isiZulu translation of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1961). Excerpted from a longer conversation, Act 1 of the interview dwells on the practice and politics of translanguaging and the relationship between peace, freedom, and translation among African vernacular languages. The incomplete nature of freedo…
Race and Caste: Crises and Histories of the Postcolonial Contemporary
This essay argues that a new postcolonial critique is necessary in the face of resurgent supremacist ideologies. In order to lay the grounds for such a critique, this article maps the overlapping histories of race and caste across South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It posits that the ongoing crisis and stasis of the postcolonial contemporary calls for reckoning with the long pasts and presents of derogation that inform and precipitate quotidi…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Caste (2 works)