Leela Fernandes
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leela Fernandes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leela |
| FAMILY NAME | Fernandes |
| SIGNATURE | FERNANDES L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia
Gendered nationalism : from women to gender and back again? / Mrinalini Sinha -- Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal : the writings of Nawab / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan -- Gender, women and partition : literary representations, refugee women and partition studies / Paulomi Chakraborty -- The contact zones of intersectionality : inequality and knowledge production on India / Leela Fernand…
Scarcity and the State in the Midst of Climate and Economic Crises
My talk today draws on my new book, Governing Water in India.11 All examples and quotes in this talk are from Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Pr
Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”
No Permanent Waves
No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today. A respec…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Disciplinary Quandaries
20 A & Q Kuhonta, Erik Martinez. 2011. The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, eds. 2008. Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis. Stanford , Calif.: Stanford University Press. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, C…
Intersectionality and Disciplinarity
The concept of intersectionality generates much debate amongst interdisciplinary feminist scholars. The paradigm has become a central disciplinary device for feminist scholarship. Indeed, the Natio
Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics
Unsettled Territories
The article argues that the secular Indian state and the Hindu nationalist movement are invested in restricting changes in religious membership in ways that intensify religious and caste-based inequalities. The secular state and the Hindu nationalist movement attempt to enforce a shared model of religion that takes the form of a fixed territory. In this model, changes in religious membership through conversion are restricted. An analysis of state…
The Violence of Forgetting
This introduction to two field reports on specific cases of poverty in rural and urban India argues that poverty is produced and mediated through intersecting structures of inequality such as caste, religion, tribe, and gender. The reports, the author notes, remind us that understanding the macro processes and current effects of globalization requires a practice of knowledge that values the details, specificities, and immersion in particular plac…
Hegemonic Aspirations
This article uses an analysis of the rise of India's New Middle Class (NMC) to develop a class analytics of democratic politics in India. The article locates the politics of India's democracy within the framework of comparative class analytics and integrates class analysis with the politics of caste, religion, and language. The article develops two central arguments. The first is that the dominant fraction of the middle class plays a central role…
The Politics of Forgetting
Policies of economic liberalisation have been accompanied by discourses on the rise of the new middle class in India. The newness of this Indian middle class is marked by changing consumption practices and lifestyles. The visibility of the urban middle classes sets into motion a politics of forgetting with regard to social groups that are marginalised by India's policies of liberalisation. The politics of forgetting refers to a political-discursi…
Class, Space, and the State in India
Local spatial politics in metropolitan cities in India provide important arenas for an analysis of the dynamics of middle-class consumer-based forms of cultural citizenship that emerge in the context of economic liberalization. This chapter argues that the politics of spatial purification reconstitutes historical hierarchies of class inequality and produces new alliances of the new Indian middle class, the state, and capital. Consider the ways in…
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
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Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India
The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set of public discourses that have increasingly begun to debate the character of the Indian middle class. On
Nationalizing `the global
The article intervenes in the debate over the effects of globalization on the nation-state by exploring the ways in which meanings of the global are produced through the nationalist imagination in India. Globalization in India has unfolded in the context of the `new economic policies' of liberalization initiated in the 1990s. Both television and print media images increasingly contribute to the reproduction of a hegemonic political culture, one t…
Reading 'India's Bandit Queen
Activities and Appointments
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program contributes to the intellectual life of the campus by
Beyond Public Spaces and Private Spheres
Contesting class
This article is based on a detailed ethnographic study of Calcutta jute mill workers, with the argument drawing on interviews and observations of everyday politics and conflicts at the factory level. In an attempt to transcend the problem of essentialism in the study of working class politics, the article presents a theoretical reconceptualization of class, arguing that class is a contested category, one that is constituted by conflict, exclusion…
Producing Workers
The Politics of Forgetting
Policies of economic liberalisation have been accompanied by discourses on the rise of the new middle class in India. The newness of this Indian middle class is marked by changing consumption practices and lifestyles. The visibility of the urban middle classes sets into motion a politics of forgetting with regard to social groups that are marginalised by India's policies of liberalisation. The politics of forgetting refers to a political-discursi…
Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India
The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set of public discourses that have increasingly begun to debate the character of the Indian middle class. On
Producing Workers
Nationalizing `the global
The article intervenes in the debate over the effects of globalization on the nation-state by exploring the ways in which meanings of the global are produced through the nationalist imagination in India. Globalization in India has unfolded in the context of the `new economic policies' of liberalization initiated in the 1990s. Both television and print media images increasingly contribute to the reproduction of a hegemonic political culture, one t…
Unsettled Territories
The article argues that the secular Indian state and the Hindu nationalist movement are invested in restricting changes in religious membership in ways that intensify religious and caste-based inequalities. The secular state and the Hindu nationalist movement attempt to enforce a shared model of religion that takes the form of a fixed territory. In this model, changes in religious membership through conversion are restricted. An analysis of state…
Reading 'India's Bandit Queen
Beyond Public Spaces and Private Spheres
Intersectionality and Disciplinarity
The concept of intersectionality generates much debate amongst interdisciplinary feminist scholars. The paradigm has become a central disciplinary device for feminist scholarship. Indeed, the Natio
The Violence of Forgetting
This introduction to two field reports on specific cases of poverty in rural and urban India argues that poverty is produced and mediated through intersecting structures of inequality such as caste, religion, tribe, and gender. The reports, the author notes, remind us that understanding the macro processes and current effects of globalization requires a practice of knowledge that values the details, specificities, and immersion in particular plac…
Contesting class
This article is based on a detailed ethnographic study of Calcutta jute mill workers, with the argument drawing on interviews and observations of everyday politics and conflicts at the factory level. In an attempt to transcend the problem of essentialism in the study of working class politics, the article presents a theoretical reconceptualization of class, arguing that class is a contested category, one that is constituted by conflict, exclusion…
Activities and Appointments
The Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program contributes to the intellectual life of the campus by
Beyond Public Spaces and Private Spheres
Reading 'India's Bandit Queen
Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India
The policies of economic liberalization, initiated in India in the 1990s,1 have been accompanied by a set of public discourses that have increasingly begun to debate the character of the Indian middle class. On
Nationalizing `the global
The article intervenes in the debate over the effects of globalization on the nation-state by exploring the ways in which meanings of the global are produced through the nationalist imagination in India. Globalization in India has unfolded in the context of the `new economic policies' of liberalization initiated in the 1990s. Both television and print media images increasingly contribute to the reproduction of a hegemonic political culture, one t…
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Politics of Forgetting
Policies of economic liberalisation have been accompanied by discourses on the rise of the new middle class in India. The newness of this Indian middle class is marked by changing consumption practices and lifestyles. The visibility of the urban middle classes sets into motion a politics of forgetting with regard to social groups that are marginalised by India's policies of liberalisation. The politics of forgetting refers to a political-discursi…
Class, Space, and the State in India
Local spatial politics in metropolitan cities in India provide important arenas for an analysis of the dynamics of middle-class consumer-based forms of cultural citizenship that emerge in the context of economic liberalization. This chapter argues that the politics of spatial purification reconstitutes historical hierarchies of class inequality and produces new alliances of the new Indian middle class, the state, and capital. Consider the ways in…
Hegemonic Aspirations
This article uses an analysis of the rise of India's New Middle Class (NMC) to develop a class analytics of democratic politics in India. The article locates the politics of India's democracy within the framework of comparative class analytics and integrates class analysis with the politics of caste, religion, and language. The article develops two central arguments. The first is that the dominant fraction of the middle class plays a central role…
The Violence of Forgetting
This introduction to two field reports on specific cases of poverty in rural and urban India argues that poverty is produced and mediated through intersecting structures of inequality such as caste, religion, tribe, and gender. The reports, the author notes, remind us that understanding the macro processes and current effects of globalization requires a practice of knowledge that values the details, specificities, and immersion in particular plac…
Unsettled Territories
The article argues that the secular Indian state and the Hindu nationalist movement are invested in restricting changes in religious membership in ways that intensify religious and caste-based inequalities. The secular state and the Hindu nationalist movement attempt to enforce a shared model of religion that takes the form of a fixed territory. In this model, changes in religious membership through conversion are restricted. An analysis of state…
Wendy Hesford. Spectacular Rhetorics
Intersectionality and Disciplinarity
The concept of intersectionality generates much debate amongst interdisciplinary feminist scholars. The paradigm has become a central disciplinary device for feminist scholarship. Indeed, the Natio
Disciplinary Quandaries
20 A & Q Kuhonta, Erik Martinez. 2011. The Institutional Imperative: The Politics of Equitable Development in Southeast Asia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. Kuhonta, Erik Martinez, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu, eds. 2008. Southeast Asia in Political Science: Theory, Region, and Qualitative Analysis. Stanford , Calif.: Stanford University Press. Scott, James C. 1985. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance. New Haven, C…
Precarious Rhetorics
OUR COLLEC TION has come together in the midst of the rise of the global Right.It will likely be received and circulate in a global context wherein this ascendency has been consolidated through an entrenched hard-right populism, marked by xenophobia and racialized social orderings, and characterized by nativist, heteronormative, hypermasculine, and heteropatriarchal leadership styles and structures.Such structures are apparent in the authoritaria…
Unsettling “Third Wave Feminism”
No Permanent Waves
No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women's rights by offering fresh perspectives on the diverse movements that comprise U.S. feminism, past and present. Seventeen essays--both original and reprinted--address continuities, conflicts, and transformations among women's movements in the United States from the early nineteenth century through today. A respec…
Routledge Handbook of Gender in South Asia
Gendered nationalism : from women to gender and back again? / Mrinalini Sinha -- Construction of gender in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Muslim Bengal : the writings of Nawab / Firdous Azim and Perween Hasan -- Gender, women and partition : literary representations, refugee women and partition studies / Paulomi Chakraborty -- The contact zones of intersectionality : inequality and knowledge production on India / Leela Fernand…
Scarcity and the State in the Midst of Climate and Economic Crises
My talk today draws on my new book, Governing Water in India.11 All examples and quotes in this talk are from Governing Water in India: Inequality, Reform and the State (University of Washington Pr
Producing Workers
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works)