Michael Nijhawan
Biographic Data
| ID | 212999 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Nijhawan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Nijhawan |
| SIGNATURE | NIJHAWAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-8393-392X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Afterword: De- and neotraditionalisation
Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisationOur essays are sharply different in tenor, concepts, vocabulary, disciplines and modes of analysis.This hardly comes as a surprise.It is to be expected that such differences manifest themselves in this broad comparative effort.Each contribution examines historically and culturally divergent forms of Vergesellschaftung as the societal and symbolic context of the processes of de-or neo-traditionalisation analy…
Migrant precarity and religious individualisation
Constructing a genuine religious character: The impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany
Afterword: Practices
How can practices generate, accelerate, or undermine the institutionalisation -or conventionalisation (see the Introduction to Part 2 of this publication) -of religious individualisation? This question, which we initially posed to our authors and which also underlies the first sub-section of this part of the publication, has three conceptual components -'practices', 'institutionalisation', and 'religious individualisation' -, each of which are as…
Haunted by the event: A response
This paper offers a response to contributions by Conerly Casey, Patrick Eisenlohr, Raji S. Soni and Connor VanderBeek in this inaugural theory colloquium in Sikh Formations. By drawing on Derrida’s philosophy of event and eventfulness and Veena Das’ work, I shall rethink some of the critiques and lines of argument emerging from the four contributions gathered here. Couching my response in the contemporary context of migrant precarity and state vi…
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics
And the Diasporic Politics of Aesthetics: Reconfigurations and New Constellations among Toronto’s Sikh Youth
This article explores how Sikh youth in Toronto respond—through personal narratives and performative practices—to past events of violence associated with the Indian Army’s 1984 attack on the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, as well as the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, India. Arguably, the politics of representation around the “Punjab crisis” of 1984 have been considered crucial for conceptualizing Sikh diaspora formations. However, studying how young Sik…
Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations
This editorial introduces and contextualizes five scholarly papers on ‘Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations.’ The topic of this special issue is conceptually organized around theories of postcolonial and diasporic citizenship and probes the extent to which these theories have shaped the discursive field of ‘youth formations’. We outline how an emerging scholarly field on youth cultures, youth activism and youth pol…
Lullabies for Broken Children’: Diasporic Citizenship and the Dissenting Voices of Young Sikhs in Canada
Within transnational networks of diasporic youth identities and formations, how are narratives of migration, memory, and violence rendered intelligible by youth? How are diasporic experiences articulated by Sikh youth in Canada, and what creative means do youth utilize to do so? In this paper we examine personal narratives and the artistic practices of diasporic Sikh youth living in the Greater Toronto Area in order to examine the nexus between y…
Sikhism, Traumatic Repetition, and the Question of Aesthetic Sovereignty
This article provides a detailed discussion of Arvind Mandair’s new work Religion and the Specter of the West. Written from a sociological vantage point, which is informed by a long commitment to Sikh Studies, the argument presented here focuses on three organizing concepts of Mandair’s work: (1) repetition and how it is to be read within the process of subject formation, (2) trauma as a conceptual tool to rethink postcolonial identity, and (3) a…
Today, We Are All Ahmadi’: Configurations of Heretic Otherness between Lahore and Berlin
The Ahmadis are widely regarded as heterodox in Pakistan, where they have moved after the Partition of British India in 1947, and where they have later been declared by the state as being ‘non-Muslim’. Faced with violence and discrimination on a regular basis, they have migrated in large numbers to Europe, including Germany. There, they are free to continue their religious practice, but at the same time have been treated with hostility as they be…
Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh scriptures
And the Diasporic Politics of Aesthetics: Reconfigurations and New Constellations among Toronto’s Sikh Youth
This article explores how Sikh youth in Toronto respond—through personal narratives and performative practices—to past events of violence associated with the Indian Army’s 1984 attack on the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, as well as the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, India. Arguably, the politics of representation around the “Punjab crisis” of 1984 have been considered crucial for conceptualizing Sikh diaspora formations. However, studying how young Sik…
Cultural, Linguistic And Political Translations: Dhadi ‘urban’ music
Deportability, Medicine, and the Law
This paper explores the institutional and everyday conditions that define 'deportability' as a lived experience at the social margin. Focusing on Germany as a paradigmatic case for the new immigration and deportation policies of the new Europe, it investigates state rationales through which certain bodies are produced as 'deportable' and takes a specific look at the role of medicine in this matter. The first part of the text traces a genealogy of…
From Divine Bliss to Ardent Passion: Exploring Sikh Religious Aesthetics through the Ḍhāḍī Genre
Deportability, Medicine, and the Law
This paper explores the institutional and everyday conditions that define 'deportability' as a lived experience at the social margin. Focusing on Germany as a paradigmatic case for the new immigration and deportation policies of the new Europe, it investigates state rationales through which certain bodies are produced as 'deportable' and takes a specific look at the role of medicine in this matter. The first part of the text traces a genealogy of…
Lullabies for Broken Children’: Diasporic Citizenship and the Dissenting Voices of Young Sikhs in Canada
Within transnational networks of diasporic youth identities and formations, how are narratives of migration, memory, and violence rendered intelligible by youth? How are diasporic experiences articulated by Sikh youth in Canada, and what creative means do youth utilize to do so? In this paper we examine personal narratives and the artistic practices of diasporic Sikh youth living in the Greater Toronto Area in order to examine the nexus between y…
Today, We Are All Ahmadi’: Configurations of Heretic Otherness between Lahore and Berlin
The Ahmadis are widely regarded as heterodox in Pakistan, where they have moved after the Partition of British India in 1947, and where they have later been declared by the state as being ‘non-Muslim’. Faced with violence and discrimination on a regular basis, they have migrated in large numbers to Europe, including Germany. There, they are free to continue their religious practice, but at the same time have been treated with hostility as they be…
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh scriptures
Cultural, Linguistic And Political Translations: Dhadi ‘urban’ music
Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations
This editorial introduces and contextualizes five scholarly papers on ‘Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations.’ The topic of this special issue is conceptually organized around theories of postcolonial and diasporic citizenship and probes the extent to which these theories have shaped the discursive field of ‘youth formations’. We outline how an emerging scholarly field on youth cultures, youth activism and youth pol…
Sikhism, Traumatic Repetition, and the Question of Aesthetic Sovereignty
This article provides a detailed discussion of Arvind Mandair’s new work Religion and the Specter of the West. Written from a sociological vantage point, which is informed by a long commitment to Sikh Studies, the argument presented here focuses on three organizing concepts of Mandair’s work: (1) repetition and how it is to be read within the process of subject formation, (2) trauma as a conceptual tool to rethink postcolonial identity, and (3) a…
From Divine Bliss to Ardent Passion: Exploring Sikh Religious Aesthetics through the Ḍhāḍī Genre
From Divine Bliss to Ardent Passion: Exploring Sikh Religious Aesthetics through the Ḍhāḍī Genre
Deportability, Medicine, and the Law
This paper explores the institutional and everyday conditions that define 'deportability' as a lived experience at the social margin. Focusing on Germany as a paradigmatic case for the new immigration and deportation policies of the new Europe, it investigates state rationales through which certain bodies are produced as 'deportable' and takes a specific look at the role of medicine in this matter. The first part of the text traces a genealogy of…
Cultural, Linguistic And Political Translations: Dhadi ‘urban’ music
And the Diasporic Politics of Aesthetics: Reconfigurations and New Constellations among Toronto’s Sikh Youth
This article explores how Sikh youth in Toronto respond—through personal narratives and performative practices—to past events of violence associated with the Indian Army’s 1984 attack on the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, as well as the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, India. Arguably, the politics of representation around the “Punjab crisis” of 1984 have been considered crucial for conceptualizing Sikh diaspora formations. However, studying how young Sik…
Teachings of the Sikh Gurus: Selections from the Sikh scriptures
Today, We Are All Ahmadi’: Configurations of Heretic Otherness between Lahore and Berlin
The Ahmadis are widely regarded as heterodox in Pakistan, where they have moved after the Partition of British India in 1947, and where they have later been declared by the state as being ‘non-Muslim’. Faced with violence and discrimination on a regular basis, they have migrated in large numbers to Europe, including Germany. There, they are free to continue their religious practice, but at the same time have been treated with hostility as they be…
Sikhism, Traumatic Repetition, and the Question of Aesthetic Sovereignty
This article provides a detailed discussion of Arvind Mandair’s new work Religion and the Specter of the West. Written from a sociological vantage point, which is informed by a long commitment to Sikh Studies, the argument presented here focuses on three organizing concepts of Mandair’s work: (1) repetition and how it is to be read within the process of subject formation, (2) trauma as a conceptual tool to rethink postcolonial identity, and (3) a…
Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations
This editorial introduces and contextualizes five scholarly papers on ‘Violence, Memory, and the Dynamics of Transnational Youth Formations.’ The topic of this special issue is conceptually organized around theories of postcolonial and diasporic citizenship and probes the extent to which these theories have shaped the discursive field of ‘youth formations’. We outline how an emerging scholarly field on youth cultures, youth activism and youth pol…
Lullabies for Broken Children’: Diasporic Citizenship and the Dissenting Voices of Young Sikhs in Canada
Within transnational networks of diasporic youth identities and formations, how are narratives of migration, memory, and violence rendered intelligible by youth? How are diasporic experiences articulated by Sikh youth in Canada, and what creative means do youth utilize to do so? In this paper we examine personal narratives and the artistic practices of diasporic Sikh youth living in the Greater Toronto Area in order to examine the nexus between y…
Suffering, Art, and Aesthetics
And the Diasporic Politics of Aesthetics: Reconfigurations and New Constellations among Toronto’s Sikh Youth
This article explores how Sikh youth in Toronto respond—through personal narratives and performative practices—to past events of violence associated with the Indian Army’s 1984 attack on the “Golden Temple” in Amritsar, as well as the anti-Sikh riots in Delhi, India. Arguably, the politics of representation around the “Punjab crisis” of 1984 have been considered crucial for conceptualizing Sikh diaspora formations. However, studying how young Sik…
Haunted by the event: A response
This paper offers a response to contributions by Conerly Casey, Patrick Eisenlohr, Raji S. Soni and Connor VanderBeek in this inaugural theory colloquium in Sikh Formations. By drawing on Derrida’s philosophy of event and eventfulness and Veena Das’ work, I shall rethink some of the critiques and lines of argument emerging from the four contributions gathered here. Couching my response in the contemporary context of migrant precarity and state vi…
Introduction: Contesting memory and citizenship in Canada
The commemorative events marking the 150th anniversary of Canada’s 1867 confederation prompt us to reconsider the nexus between citizenship and memory. In the introduction to this special issue, we explore how the past continues to inform debates on Canadian identity in relation to the legacy of settler colonialism and its enduring impacts on Indigenous peoples, immigration and the transnationalization of Canadian society. Government responses to…
Afterword: De- and neotraditionalisation
Afterword: de-and neotraditionalisationOur essays are sharply different in tenor, concepts, vocabulary, disciplines and modes of analysis.This hardly comes as a surprise.It is to be expected that such differences manifest themselves in this broad comparative effort.Each contribution examines historically and culturally divergent forms of Vergesellschaftung as the societal and symbolic context of the processes of de-or neo-traditionalisation analy…
Migrant precarity and religious individualisation
Constructing a genuine religious character: The impact of the asylum court on the Ahmadiyya community in Germany
Afterword: Practices
How can practices generate, accelerate, or undermine the institutionalisation -or conventionalisation (see the Introduction to Part 2 of this publication) -of religious individualisation? This question, which we initially posed to our authors and which also underlies the first sub-section of this part of the publication, has three conceptual components -'practices', 'institutionalisation', and 'religious individualisation' -, each of which are as…
Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · History (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Law (6 works)