Hannah Carlan
Biographic Data
| ID | 266146 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannah Carlan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannah |
| FAMILY NAME | Carlan |
| SIGNATURE | CARLAN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0777-9913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No One is Poor in Himachal: Cultivating Stateless Agency in an Indian Village Assembly
This article examines the bedrock of rural governance in India-the village assembly, orgram sabha-and the deliberative process whereby citizens are designated as 'below the poverty line' (BPL). I examine onegram sabhain Himachal Pradesh wherein BPL status was eradicated altogether, leaving hundreds of people ineligible for a vast array of state aid programs. I argue that this outcome relied on an interactional achievement whereby state actors (bu…
Everyday Creativity: Singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills, by Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan’s Everyday Creativity explores women’s devotional songs as affective and aesthetic labour in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. Having first heard upper-caste Kangra women’s songs as a teenager in 1975, Narayan draws on over three decades of fieldwork in the region and pays homage to the women who brought her into their lifeworlds and into the field of anthropology, some of whom did not live to see the fruits of her labou…
In the mouth of an aborigine: Language ideologies and logics of racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India
TheLinguistic Survey of India(LSI), edited and compiled by George Abraham Grierson, was the first systematic effort by the British colonial government to document the spoken languages and dialects of India. While Grierson advocated an approach to philology that dismissed the affinity of language to race, theLSImobilizes a complex, intertextual set of racializing discourses that form the ideological ground upon which representations of language we…
No One is Poor in Himachal: Cultivating Stateless Agency in an Indian Village Assembly
This article examines the bedrock of rural governance in India-the village assembly, orgram sabha-and the deliberative process whereby citizens are designated as 'below the poverty line' (BPL). I examine onegram sabhain Himachal Pradesh wherein BPL status was eradicated altogether, leaving hundreds of people ineligible for a vast array of state aid programs. I argue that this outcome relied on an interactional achievement whereby state actors (bu…
In the mouth of an aborigine: Language ideologies and logics of racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India
TheLinguistic Survey of India(LSI), edited and compiled by George Abraham Grierson, was the first systematic effort by the British colonial government to document the spoken languages and dialects of India. While Grierson advocated an approach to philology that dismissed the affinity of language to race, theLSImobilizes a complex, intertextual set of racializing discourses that form the ideological ground upon which representations of language we…
In the mouth of an aborigine: Language ideologies and logics of racialization in the Linguistic Survey of India
TheLinguistic Survey of India(LSI), edited and compiled by George Abraham Grierson, was the first systematic effort by the British colonial government to document the spoken languages and dialects of India. While Grierson advocated an approach to philology that dismissed the affinity of language to race, theLSImobilizes a complex, intertextual set of racializing discourses that form the ideological ground upon which representations of language we…
Everyday Creativity: Singing goddesses in the Himalayan foothills, by Kirin Narayan
Kirin Narayan’s Everyday Creativity explores women’s devotional songs as affective and aesthetic labour in the Kangra Valley of Himachal Pradesh, India. Having first heard upper-caste Kangra women’s songs as a teenager in 1975, Narayan draws on over three decades of fieldwork in the region and pays homage to the women who brought her into their lifeworlds and into the field of anthropology, some of whom did not live to see the fruits of her labou…
No One is Poor in Himachal: Cultivating Stateless Agency in an Indian Village Assembly
This article examines the bedrock of rural governance in India-the village assembly, orgram sabha-and the deliberative process whereby citizens are designated as 'below the poverty line' (BPL). I examine onegram sabhain Himachal Pradesh wherein BPL status was eradicated altogether, leaving hundreds of people ineligible for a vast array of state aid programs. I argue that this outcome relied on an interactional achievement whereby state actors (bu…
Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cartography (1 works) · Colonialism (1 works)