Purnima Bose
Biographic Data
| ID | 177657 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Purnima Bose |
| GIVEN NAMES | Purnima |
| FAMILY NAME | Bose |
| SIGNATURE | BOSE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0791-2008 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Special issue: Forest science navigating sustainable development—A third task
Equitable land-use policy? Indigenous peoples’ resistance to mining-induced deforestation
India's centralized mining of sub-soil minerals is rapidly changing the forested landscapes. This empirical research examines two interrelated questions: how do Indigenous Peoples perceive centralized mining affecting their traditional forest rights, and what are some of the community-led initiatives to address mining governance and forest policy? Two aspects of the rights-based approach on the extreme continuum – Free Prior and Informed Consent …
Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir
In this article, we analyze contemporary discourses of counterinsurgency in relation to dogs in Kashmir, the disputed northernmost Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the site of a prolonged military occupation. We are interested in the widespread presence of street dogs in Kashmir as both embodiments and instruments of military terror. We consider the competing narratives of how canines function variously in Kashmiri perceptions of cou…
Oil palm plantations vs. shifting cultivation for indigenous peoples: Analyzing Mizoram's New Land Use Policy
Postcoloniality
The term “postcolonialism” emerged in the late twentieth century, signifying an impulse among scholars to periodize history and to identify colonialism as central to an understanding of international/global configurations of power. Postcolonial theory has involved a series of engagements with concepts such as colonialism, the state, nationalism, colonial and native subjectivity, development, and subalternity. It has been marked by a tension betwe…
Land tenure and forest rights of rural and indigenous women in Latin America: Empirical evidence
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of personhood in various environmental and animal rights campaigns
Individual tenure rights, citizenship, and conflicts: Outcomes from tribal India's forest governance
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University Purnima Bose (bio) What are the prospects for progressive faculty activism in the academy today? My comments are based on my experiences at a large, public research institution and should not be generalized for the professoriate as a whole. Indeed, we must be mindful of the different kinds of institutions that blanket the larger academic landscape, from community colleges to for-profit un…
Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement
This article traces the biographies of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and Somerset Maugham to map a global network of Indian nationalist resistance to the British Empire. Maugham and Smedley fictionalized their experiences with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Ghadar Party, respectively. I analyse the representation of Chattopadhyaya in Smedley's autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth and Somerset Maugham's short stor…
Forest governmentality: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent 'scheduled tribes' in India
Hindutva Abroad: The California Textbook Controversy
This essay traces the ideological transformations that accompany Hinduism’s passage to the United States. Specifically, the essay analyzes the 2005-2006 California textbook controversy in which some members of two diasporic groups, the Vedic Foundation and the Hindu Educational Foundation, lobbied to change the content of the sections on Hinduism and ancient Indian in sixth-grade history-social science textbooks. Their intervention in the textboo…
Nehru: A Political Life
The first prime minister of India after independence from British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a major architect of India as a nation state. His dedication to politics led to imprisonment under British rule, a deeply disturbed family life, and eventually to nearly two decades in power during which he ceaselessly pursued his vision of a transformed and democratic India. This biography depicts the phases of Nehru's life and shows how each…
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India
1. Rogue-Colonial Individualism: General Dyer, Colonial Masculinity, Intentionality, and the Amritsar Massacre -- 2. Feminist-Nationalist Individualism: Margaret Cousins, Activism, and Witnessing -- 3. Heroic-Nationalist Individualism: Kalpana Dutt, Gender, and the Bengali "Terrorist" Movement -- 4. Heroic-Colonial Individualism: Raj Nostalgia and the Recuperation of Colonial History
Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Forest governmentality: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent 'scheduled tribes' in India
Nehru: A Political Life
The first prime minister of India after independence from British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a major architect of India as a nation state. His dedication to politics led to imprisonment under British rule, a deeply disturbed family life, and eventually to nearly two decades in power during which he ceaselessly pursued his vision of a transformed and democratic India. This biography depicts the phases of Nehru's life and shows how each…
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Hindutva Abroad: The California Textbook Controversy
This essay traces the ideological transformations that accompany Hinduism’s passage to the United States. Specifically, the essay analyzes the 2005-2006 California textbook controversy in which some members of two diasporic groups, the Vedic Foundation and the Hindu Educational Foundation, lobbied to change the content of the sections on Hinduism and ancient Indian in sixth-grade history-social science textbooks. Their intervention in the textboo…
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India
1. Rogue-Colonial Individualism: General Dyer, Colonial Masculinity, Intentionality, and the Amritsar Massacre -- 2. Feminist-Nationalist Individualism: Margaret Cousins, Activism, and Witnessing -- 3. Heroic-Nationalist Individualism: Kalpana Dutt, Gender, and the Bengali "Terrorist" Movement -- 4. Heroic-Colonial Individualism: Raj Nostalgia and the Recuperation of Colonial History
Land tenure and forest rights of rural and indigenous women in Latin America: Empirical evidence
Individual tenure rights, citizenship, and conflicts: Outcomes from tribal India's forest governance
Equitable land-use policy? Indigenous peoples’ resistance to mining-induced deforestation
India's centralized mining of sub-soil minerals is rapidly changing the forested landscapes. This empirical research examines two interrelated questions: how do Indigenous Peoples perceive centralized mining affecting their traditional forest rights, and what are some of the community-led initiatives to address mining governance and forest policy? Two aspects of the rights-based approach on the extreme continuum – Free Prior and Informed Consent …
Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir
In this article, we analyze contemporary discourses of counterinsurgency in relation to dogs in Kashmir, the disputed northernmost Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the site of a prolonged military occupation. We are interested in the widespread presence of street dogs in Kashmir as both embodiments and instruments of military terror. We consider the competing narratives of how canines function variously in Kashmiri perceptions of cou…
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University Purnima Bose (bio) What are the prospects for progressive faculty activism in the academy today? My comments are based on my experiences at a large, public research institution and should not be generalized for the professoriate as a whole. Indeed, we must be mindful of the different kinds of institutions that blanket the larger academic landscape, from community colleges to for-profit un…
Oil palm plantations vs. shifting cultivation for indigenous peoples: Analyzing Mizoram's New Land Use Policy
Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement
This article traces the biographies of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and Somerset Maugham to map a global network of Indian nationalist resistance to the British Empire. Maugham and Smedley fictionalized their experiences with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Ghadar Party, respectively. I analyse the representation of Chattopadhyaya in Smedley's autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth and Somerset Maugham's short stor…
Pioneers and Homemakers: Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Organizing Empire: Individualism, Collective Agency, and India
1. Rogue-Colonial Individualism: General Dyer, Colonial Masculinity, Intentionality, and the Amritsar Massacre -- 2. Feminist-Nationalist Individualism: Margaret Cousins, Activism, and Witnessing -- 3. Heroic-Nationalist Individualism: Kalpana Dutt, Gender, and the Bengali "Terrorist" Movement -- 4. Heroic-Colonial Individualism: Raj Nostalgia and the Recuperation of Colonial History
Nehru: A Political Life
The first prime minister of India after independence from British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was a major architect of India as a nation state. His dedication to politics led to imprisonment under British rule, a deeply disturbed family life, and eventually to nearly two decades in power during which he ceaselessly pursued his vision of a transformed and democratic India. This biography depicts the phases of Nehru's life and shows how each…
Hindutva Abroad: The California Textbook Controversy
This essay traces the ideological transformations that accompany Hinduism’s passage to the United States. Specifically, the essay analyzes the 2005-2006 California textbook controversy in which some members of two diasporic groups, the Vedic Foundation and the Hindu Educational Foundation, lobbied to change the content of the sections on Hinduism and ancient Indian in sixth-grade history-social science textbooks. Their intervention in the textboo…
Transnational resistance and fictive truths: Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and the Indian nationalist movement
This article traces the biographies of Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Agnes Smedley and Somerset Maugham to map a global network of Indian nationalist resistance to the British Empire. Maugham and Smedley fictionalized their experiences with the British Secret Intelligence Service and the Ghadar Party, respectively. I analyse the representation of Chattopadhyaya in Smedley's autobiographical novel Daughter of Earth and Somerset Maugham's short stor…
Forest governmentality: A genealogy of subject-making of forest-dependent 'scheduled tribes' in India
Individual tenure rights, citizenship, and conflicts: Outcomes from tribal India's forest governance
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University
Faculty Activism and the Corporatization of the University Purnima Bose (bio) What are the prospects for progressive faculty activism in the academy today? My comments are based on my experiences at a large, public research institution and should not be generalized for the professoriate as a whole. Indeed, we must be mindful of the different kinds of institutions that blanket the larger academic landscape, from community colleges to for-profit un…
Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
This introduction outlines different manifestations of corporate personhood, including advertising, skinvertising, activist corporate impersonation, and the equation of corporations with celebrity CEOs. We contextualize corporate personhood in relation to recent attempts to claim rights for fetuses, along with more progressive articulations of personhood in various environmental and animal rights campaigns
Land tenure and forest rights of rural and indigenous women in Latin America: Empirical evidence
Women's rights to land and communal forest tenure: A way forward for research and policy agenda in Latin America
In this synthesis paper, the authors of this Special Section contribute towards a collective research and policy agenda on rural and indigenous women's forest and land rights in Latin America. Based on the key lessons from the empirical evidence, we map out a way forward for the research agenda and suggest a few key institutional and policy priorities for rural Latin America
Postcoloniality
The term “postcolonialism” emerged in the late twentieth century, signifying an impulse among scholars to periodize history and to identify colonialism as central to an understanding of international/global configurations of power. Postcolonial theory has involved a series of engagements with concepts such as colonialism, the state, nationalism, colonial and native subjectivity, development, and subalternity. It has been marked by a tension betwe…
Oil palm plantations vs. shifting cultivation for indigenous peoples: Analyzing Mizoram's New Land Use Policy
Canine counterinsurgency in Indian-occupied Kashmir
In this article, we analyze contemporary discourses of counterinsurgency in relation to dogs in Kashmir, the disputed northernmost Himalayan territory of Jammu and Kashmir, and the site of a prolonged military occupation. We are interested in the widespread presence of street dogs in Kashmir as both embodiments and instruments of military terror. We consider the competing narratives of how canines function variously in Kashmiri perceptions of cou…
Equitable land-use policy? Indigenous peoples’ resistance to mining-induced deforestation
India's centralized mining of sub-soil minerals is rapidly changing the forested landscapes. This empirical research examines two interrelated questions: how do Indigenous Peoples perceive centralized mining affecting their traditional forest rights, and what are some of the community-led initiatives to address mining governance and forest policy? Two aspects of the rights-based approach on the extreme continuum – Free Prior and Informed Consent …
Special issue: Forest science navigating sustainable development—A third task
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Nationalism (6 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)