Manali Desai
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manali Desai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manali |
| FAMILY NAME | Desai |
| SIGNATURE | DESAI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8882-8843 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 117 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Multiple masculinities in City of Men
Negotiating everyday gender-based violence: Reflecting on fieldwork in India and South Africa
India and South Africa are two rapidly transforming economies grappling with social and political transitions - the ongoing consolidation and contestation of Hindu nationalist populism in India and the project of post-apartheid reconstruction and transformation in South Africa. Within these contexts, violence against women remains high, despite a raft of progressive legislation aimed at tackling such violence. In this article, we offer a broad ov…
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa
The rise of neoliberalism in postcolonial contexts such as Brazil, Nigeria, India, and South Africa has meshed with the legacies of colonialism and the deep social inequalities of race, class, and gender to create paradoxical gendered effects. A singular narrative of oppression and inequality, on the one hand, counterposed with aspiration and mobility, on the other, fails to capture the notably different experiences among women during such transi…
Spatiotemporal analysis of HPV vaccination and associated neighborhood-level disparities in Texas—an ecological study
Background: HPV is responsible for most cervical, oropharyngeal, anal, vaginal, and vulvar cancers. The HPV vaccine has decreased cervical cancer incidence, but only 49% of Texas adolescents have initiated the vaccine. Texas shows great variation in HPV vaccination rates. We used geospatial analysis to identify areas with high and low vaccination rates and explored differences in neighborhood characteristics. Methods: Using Anselin's Local Moran'…
An Eventful Critique of Crisis Language in Historical Sociology
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Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society
Going against the prevailing notion that political parties mirror divisions in society, Building Blocs argues that some parties actively structure those divisions. Using international case studies and Gramscian social theory, this volume demonstrates that political articulation is not the work of ambitious politicians or of the state, but primarily of parties. With one foot in society they also control the system of nominations, appointments, and…
Gendered Violence and India’s Body Politic
Falling demand for female labour and rising dowry thresholds as factors behind mounting attacks on women; gang-rape as an instrument of caste-oppression; a culture of impunity in conflict zones; son-preference, girl-aversion and the missing. Manali Desai surveys the modalities of violence against women since Independence
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The construction of Indian nationhood since independence in 1947 has had to contend with various alternative forms of belonging such as caste, religion, region, and language. Given that India was created through the partition of British Indian territory on religious grounds, an ethnic conception of nationhood retained its influence even though India was officially declared a secular nation. The postindependence constitution explicitly prohibited …
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Anand Teltumbde, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE: THE KHAIRLANJI MURDERS AND INDIA'S HIDDEN APARTHEID, London and New York: Zed Books, 2010, 169 pp., £18.99 (paper) In this important book, Teltumbde offer
Colonial Legacies and Repertoires of "Ethnic" Violence: The Case of Western India, 1941-2002
The post-colonial state is held to be a weak state whose ease of capture reduces its capacity to suppress violence. The focus on the state, however, risks neglecting the ways in which violence is deployed to render the state weak in popular perception. This perception in turn legitimates claims for a foundational shift in the basis of power. In this paper, the concept of "repertoire" as first used by Charles Tilly, is used to analyze continuities…
Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey
Political parties do not merely reflect social divisions, they actively construct them. While this point has been alluded to in the literature, surprisingly little attempt has been made to systematically elaborate the relationship between parties and the social, which tend to be treated as separate domains contained by the disciplinary division of labor between political science and sociology. This article demonstrates the constructive role of pa…
The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective
Most scholars argue that states are central to modernization in countries lacking a classic bourgeois social revolution. Through an analysis of Italian fascism and Indian nationalism, this essay explains a form of non-social revolutionary transformation that we call passive revolution, in which parties rather than states are the driving agents of change. We argue that India and Italy shared two conditions that led to a passive revolutionary route…
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of We…
Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957
This article examines the relationship between a strong nineteenth-century welfarist expansion between the 1860s and early 1940s, in Kerala, India, under indirect British rule, and the “exceptional” antipoverty regime that democratically elected Communists implemented during the postcolonial (post 1947) era in the state. While much attention has focused on Kerala as a model of social development and on postindependence state policies in creating …
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
The Relative Autonomy of Party Practices: A Counterfactual Analysis of Left Party Ascendancy in Kerala, India, 1934-1940
This article seeks to modify one of the dominant assumptions in the literature on political parties, namely that parties “reflect” the dominant cleavages of a given society. Instead, drawing on the distinction between the concepts of “class structure” and “class formation,” the main argument of this article is that party practices contribute to the formation of “cleavages” and in the process gain ascendancy and hegemony. A party's practices are, …
Public Rights, Public Rules: Constituting Citizens in the World Polity and National Policy
Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey
Political parties do not merely reflect social divisions, they actively construct them. While this point has been alluded to in the literature, surprisingly little attempt has been made to systematically elaborate the relationship between parties and the social, which tend to be treated as separate domains contained by the disciplinary division of labor between political science and sociology. This article demonstrates the constructive role of pa…
The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective
Most scholars argue that states are central to modernization in countries lacking a classic bourgeois social revolution. Through an analysis of Italian fascism and Indian nationalism, this essay explains a form of non-social revolutionary transformation that we call passive revolution, in which parties rather than states are the driving agents of change. We argue that India and Italy shared two conditions that led to a passive revolutionary route…
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Anand Teltumbde, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE: THE KHAIRLANJI MURDERS AND INDIA'S HIDDEN APARTHEID, London and New York: Zed Books, 2010, 169 pp., £18.99 (paper) In this important book, Teltumbde offer
The Relative Autonomy of Party Practices: A Counterfactual Analysis of Left Party Ascendancy in Kerala, India, 1934-1940
This article seeks to modify one of the dominant assumptions in the literature on political parties, namely that parties “reflect” the dominant cleavages of a given society. Instead, drawing on the distinction between the concepts of “class structure” and “class formation,” the main argument of this article is that party practices contribute to the formation of “cleavages” and in the process gain ascendancy and hegemony. A party's practices are, …
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa
The rise of neoliberalism in postcolonial contexts such as Brazil, Nigeria, India, and South Africa has meshed with the legacies of colonialism and the deep social inequalities of race, class, and gender to create paradoxical gendered effects. A singular narrative of oppression and inequality, on the one hand, counterposed with aspiration and mobility, on the other, fails to capture the notably different experiences among women during such transi…
Gendered Violence and India’s Body Politic
Falling demand for female labour and rising dowry thresholds as factors behind mounting attacks on women; gang-rape as an instrument of caste-oppression; a culture of impunity in conflict zones; son-preference, girl-aversion and the missing. Manali Desai surveys the modalities of violence against women since Independence
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Negotiating everyday gender-based violence: Reflecting on fieldwork in India and South Africa
India and South Africa are two rapidly transforming economies grappling with social and political transitions - the ongoing consolidation and contestation of Hindu nationalist populism in India and the project of post-apartheid reconstruction and transformation in South Africa. Within these contexts, violence against women remains high, despite a raft of progressive legislation aimed at tackling such violence. In this article, we offer a broad ov…
Colonial Legacies and Repertoires of "Ethnic" Violence: The Case of Western India, 1941-2002
The post-colonial state is held to be a weak state whose ease of capture reduces its capacity to suppress violence. The focus on the state, however, risks neglecting the ways in which violence is deployed to render the state weak in popular perception. This perception in turn legitimates claims for a foundational shift in the basis of power. In this paper, the concept of "repertoire" as first used by Charles Tilly, is used to analyze continuities…
Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957
This article examines the relationship between a strong nineteenth-century welfarist expansion between the 1860s and early 1940s, in Kerala, India, under indirect British rule, and the “exceptional” antipoverty regime that democratically elected Communists implemented during the postcolonial (post 1947) era in the state. While much attention has focused on Kerala as a model of social development and on postindependence state policies in creating …
Public Rights, Public Rules: Constituting Citizens in the World Polity and National Policy
The Relative Autonomy of Party Practices: A Counterfactual Analysis of Left Party Ascendancy in Kerala, India, 1934-1940
This article seeks to modify one of the dominant assumptions in the literature on political parties, namely that parties “reflect” the dominant cleavages of a given society. Instead, drawing on the distinction between the concepts of “class structure” and “class formation,” the main argument of this article is that party practices contribute to the formation of “cleavages” and in the process gain ascendancy and hegemony. A party's practices are, …
Engendering Violence: Boundaries, Histories, and the Everyday
Indirect British Rule, State Formation, and Welfarism in Kerala, India, 1860–1957
This article examines the relationship between a strong nineteenth-century welfarist expansion between the 1860s and early 1940s, in Kerala, India, under indirect British rule, and the “exceptional” antipoverty regime that democratically elected Communists implemented during the postcolonial (post 1947) era in the state. While much attention has focused on Kerala as a model of social development and on postindependence state policies in creating …
The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India
State Formation and Radical Democracy in India analyzes one of the most important cases of developmental change in the twentieth century, namely, Kerala in southern India and begs the question of whether insurgency among the marginalized poor can use formal representative democracy to create better life chances. Going back to pre-independence, colonial India, Manali Desai takes a long historical view of Kerala and compares it with the state of We…
The Passive Revolutionary Route to the Modern World: Italy and India in Comparative Perspective
Most scholars argue that states are central to modernization in countries lacking a classic bourgeois social revolution. Through an analysis of Italian fascism and Indian nationalism, this essay explains a form of non-social revolutionary transformation that we call passive revolution, in which parties rather than states are the driving agents of change. We argue that India and Italy shared two conditions that led to a passive revolutionary route…
Colonial Legacies and Repertoires of "Ethnic" Violence: The Case of Western India, 1941-2002
The post-colonial state is held to be a weak state whose ease of capture reduces its capacity to suppress violence. The focus on the state, however, risks neglecting the ways in which violence is deployed to render the state weak in popular perception. This perception in turn legitimates claims for a foundational shift in the basis of power. In this paper, the concept of "repertoire" as first used by Charles Tilly, is used to analyze continuities…
Political Articulation: Parties and the Constitution of Cleavages in the United States, India, and Turkey
Political parties do not merely reflect social divisions, they actively construct them. While this point has been alluded to in the literature, surprisingly little attempt has been made to systematically elaborate the relationship between parties and the social, which tend to be treated as separate domains contained by the disciplinary division of labor between political science and sociology. This article demonstrates the constructive role of pa…
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
Anand Teltumbde, THE PERSISTENCE OF CASTE: THE KHAIRLANJI MURDERS AND INDIA'S HIDDEN APARTHEID, London and New York: Zed Books, 2010, 169 pp., £18.99 (paper) In this important book, Teltumbde offer
I ndia
The construction of Indian nationhood since independence in 1947 has had to contend with various alternative forms of belonging such as caste, religion, region, and language. Given that India was created through the partition of British Indian territory on religious grounds, an ethnic conception of nationhood retained its influence even though India was officially declared a secular nation. The postindependence constitution explicitly prohibited …
Gendered Violence and India’s Body Politic
Falling demand for female labour and rising dowry thresholds as factors behind mounting attacks on women; gang-rape as an instrument of caste-oppression; a culture of impunity in conflict zones; son-preference, girl-aversion and the missing. Manali Desai surveys the modalities of violence against women since Independence
Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society
Going against the prevailing notion that political parties mirror divisions in society, Building Blocs argues that some parties actively structure those divisions. Using international case studies and Gramscian social theory, this volume demonstrates that political articulation is not the work of ambitious politicians or of the state, but primarily of parties. With one foot in society they also control the system of nominations, appointments, and…
An Eventful Critique of Crisis Language in Historical Sociology
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Spatiotemporal analysis of HPV vaccination and associated neighborhood-level disparities in Texas—an ecological study
Background: HPV is responsible for most cervical, oropharyngeal, anal, vaginal, and vulvar cancers. The HPV vaccine has decreased cervical cancer incidence, but only 49% of Texas adolescents have initiated the vaccine. Texas shows great variation in HPV vaccination rates. We used geospatial analysis to identify areas with high and low vaccination rates and explored differences in neighborhood characteristics. Methods: Using Anselin's Local Moran'…
Multiple masculinities in City of Men
Negotiating everyday gender-based violence: Reflecting on fieldwork in India and South Africa
India and South Africa are two rapidly transforming economies grappling with social and political transitions - the ongoing consolidation and contestation of Hindu nationalist populism in India and the project of post-apartheid reconstruction and transformation in South Africa. Within these contexts, violence against women remains high, despite a raft of progressive legislation aimed at tackling such violence. In this article, we offer a broad ov…
Buying Safety: Neoliberalism, Gendered Violence, and the Everyday State in South Africa
The rise of neoliberalism in postcolonial contexts such as Brazil, Nigeria, India, and South Africa has meshed with the legacies of colonialism and the deep social inequalities of race, class, and gender to create paradoxical gendered effects. A singular narrative of oppression and inequality, on the one hand, counterposed with aspiration and mobility, on the other, fails to capture the notably different experiences among women during such transi…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (8 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)