Thomas Blom Hansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613614 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Blom Hansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Blom |
| FAMILY NAME | Hansen |
| SIGNATURE | HANSEN T B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India
Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The…
Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Melancholia of freedom: Social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Preface vii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat RACE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP Territorializing the Nation and Integrating the Indian: Mestizaje in Mexican Official Discourses and Public Culture by Ana Maria Alonso 39 Violence, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Peru by Finn Stepputat 61 Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political by Partha Chatterjee 82 DEATH, ANXIETY, AND RITUALS OF STATE Co…
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
The saffron wave: Democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Ra…
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Ra…
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Preface vii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat RACE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP Territorializing the Nation and Integrating the Indian: Mestizaje in Mexican Official Discourses and Public Culture by Ana Maria Alonso 39 Violence, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Peru by Finn Stepputat 61 Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political by Partha Chatterjee 82 DEATH, ANXIETY, AND RITUALS OF STATE Co…
Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India
Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The…
The saffron wave: Democracy and Hindu nationalism in modern India
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India
The rise of strong nationalist and religious movements in postcolonial and newly democratic countries alarms many Western observers. In The Saffron Wave, Thomas Hansen turns our attention to recent events in the world's largest democracy, India. Here he analyzes Indian receptivity to the right-wing Hindu nationalist party and its political wing, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which claims to create a polity based on "ancient" Hindu culture. Ra…
States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State
Contents: States of imagination Thomas Blom Hansen University of Edinburgh and Finn Stepputat Centre for Development Research, Copenhagen I State as governance Demonic societies: Liberalism, bio-politics and sovereignty Mitchell Dean Macquarie University Governing population: The integrated child development services program in Indian Akhil Gupta Stanford University The battlefield and the prize: ANC's bid to reform the South African state Steffe…
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World
Preface vii List of Contributors ix Introduction 1 Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat RACE, LAW, AND CITIZENSHIP Territorializing the Nation and Integrating the Indian: Mestizaje in Mexican Official Discourses and Public Culture by Ana Maria Alonso 39 Violence, Sovereignty, and Citizenship in Postcolonial Peru by Finn Stepputat 61 Sovereign Violence and the Domain of the Political by Partha Chatterjee 82 DEATH, ANXIETY, AND RITUALS OF STATE Co…
Melancholia of freedom: Social life in an Indian township in South Africa
Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz
Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India
Majoritarian State traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its agenda is also pursued beyond the formal branches of government, as the new dispensation portrays conventional social hierarchies as intrinsic to Indian culture while condoning communal and caste- and gender-based violence. The…
20th century (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Hinduism (2 works) · India (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Nationalism (2 works) · Political anthropology (2 works) · politics and government (2 works) · Postcolonialism (2 works) · Religious aspects (2 works)