Archana Prasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3614699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Archana Prasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Archana |
| FAMILY NAME | Prasad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASAD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jawaharlal Nehru University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2287-1240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Proletarian Internationalism in the Contemporary Women's Movement
This article discusses the influence of internationalist perspectives on the women's movement in India. It provides a history of anti-imperialist feminism in general but focuses on some of the major women's organizations in India. The aim is to trace the legacy of anti-imperialist feminist politics as a response to the strategies of Western imperialist powers to counter the influence of radical and socialist politics, particularly after the Russi…
Measuring the effect of sustainability programs on interest in STEM disciplines
The Challenges and Predicaments of Doing Embedded Fieldwork in Sociology
This paper seeks to recount the challenges and predicaments of doing fieldwork in the discipline of sociology with the central focus on ethnographic techniques of data collection. The paper is based on the specific challenges encountered by the researcher while doing the study of Social Compliance Audit (SCA). This paper draws from two bouts of fieldwork; each very different from the other. My first encounter is with the practice of SCA as a grad…
Contested Indigeneities
This article focuses on the development and transformations of adivasi political identity and its articulations with indigenous consciousness in India since the advent of colonial capitalism. The apogee of adivasi politics and the "politics of indigeneity" since the 1970s has coincided with the networking among indigenous groups within the United Nations. The history of such politics will be traced in order to illustrate the forms in which social…
Women's Liberation and the Agrarian Question
This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women's emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions a…
Communal Violence and Informal Labour
Ritual and Cultural Practice Among Indian Adivasis
Recent political developments and the large-scale onslaught of neo-liberal capital through its alliance with the forces of Hindu nationalism has forced scholars to relook at the problem of ritual and cultural practice in adivasi/tribal societies. The articulation of adivasi identity (which embodies within it a celebration of ritual and cultural practice) is not necessarily an alternative to these hegemonic and oppressive forces. Rather, as this e…
Adivasi Women, Agrarian Change and Forms of Labour in Neo-liberal India
This article elaborates the different dimensions of the gendered nature of semi-proletarianization and proletarianization of the adivasi social groups after the period of neo-liberal reforms. It shows that the integration of the adivasis in general, and adivasi women in particular, has been a result of agrarian distress and macro-economic trends that have structured the patterns of dispossession, displacement and urbanization in the last two deca…
Patriarchies of the Community
Debates in environmental and tribal studies have often posited the egalitarian community as a democratic alternative against the modern state. One of the characteristics of these alternatives has been the idea that tribal women enjoy high status and freedom of choice as compared with the women of caste Hindu societies. However, many of these depictions are based on interpretations of earlier anthropological documentation of tribal practices and t…
Unravelling the Forms of ‘Adivasi’ Organization and Resistance in Colonial India
Against Ecological Romanticism
Military Conflict and Forests in Central Provinces, India
In this article I counter the proposition that pre-colonial, caste-based, natural resource management regimes were superior, in terms of stability and coherence, to colonial regimes. By engaging with the English sources of the Gondwana region I show how the question of 'stability' ignores the unequal and oppressive character of pre-colonial societies. This is borne out by the history of the Gondwana, where the social and political marginalisation…
The Baiga
Green Imperialism
Against Ecological Romanticism
Adivasi Women, Agrarian Change and Forms of Labour in Neo-liberal India
This article elaborates the different dimensions of the gendered nature of semi-proletarianization and proletarianization of the adivasi social groups after the period of neo-liberal reforms. It shows that the integration of the adivasis in general, and adivasi women in particular, has been a result of agrarian distress and macro-economic trends that have structured the patterns of dispossession, displacement and urbanization in the last two deca…
Contested Indigeneities
This article focuses on the development and transformations of adivasi political identity and its articulations with indigenous consciousness in India since the advent of colonial capitalism. The apogee of adivasi politics and the "politics of indigeneity" since the 1970s has coincided with the networking among indigenous groups within the United Nations. The history of such politics will be traced in order to illustrate the forms in which social…
Military Conflict and Forests in Central Provinces, India
In this article I counter the proposition that pre-colonial, caste-based, natural resource management regimes were superior, in terms of stability and coherence, to colonial regimes. By engaging with the English sources of the Gondwana region I show how the question of 'stability' ignores the unequal and oppressive character of pre-colonial societies. This is borne out by the history of the Gondwana, where the social and political marginalisation…
The Baiga
Women's Liberation and the Agrarian Question
This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women's emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions a…
Unravelling the Forms of ‘Adivasi’ Organization and Resistance in Colonial India
Green Imperialism
The Baiga
Military Conflict and Forests in Central Provinces, India
In this article I counter the proposition that pre-colonial, caste-based, natural resource management regimes were superior, in terms of stability and coherence, to colonial regimes. By engaging with the English sources of the Gondwana region I show how the question of 'stability' ignores the unequal and oppressive character of pre-colonial societies. This is borne out by the history of the Gondwana, where the social and political marginalisation…
Against Ecological Romanticism
Unravelling the Forms of ‘Adivasi’ Organization and Resistance in Colonial India
Patriarchies of the Community
Debates in environmental and tribal studies have often posited the egalitarian community as a democratic alternative against the modern state. One of the characteristics of these alternatives has been the idea that tribal women enjoy high status and freedom of choice as compared with the women of caste Hindu societies. However, many of these depictions are based on interpretations of earlier anthropological documentation of tribal practices and t…
Adivasi Women, Agrarian Change and Forms of Labour in Neo-liberal India
This article elaborates the different dimensions of the gendered nature of semi-proletarianization and proletarianization of the adivasi social groups after the period of neo-liberal reforms. It shows that the integration of the adivasis in general, and adivasi women in particular, has been a result of agrarian distress and macro-economic trends that have structured the patterns of dispossession, displacement and urbanization in the last two deca…
Communal Violence and Informal Labour
Ritual and Cultural Practice Among Indian Adivasis
Recent political developments and the large-scale onslaught of neo-liberal capital through its alliance with the forces of Hindu nationalism has forced scholars to relook at the problem of ritual and cultural practice in adivasi/tribal societies. The articulation of adivasi identity (which embodies within it a celebration of ritual and cultural practice) is not necessarily an alternative to these hegemonic and oppressive forces. Rather, as this e…
Women's Liberation and the Agrarian Question
This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women's emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions a…
Measuring the effect of sustainability programs on interest in STEM disciplines
The Challenges and Predicaments of Doing Embedded Fieldwork in Sociology
This paper seeks to recount the challenges and predicaments of doing fieldwork in the discipline of sociology with the central focus on ethnographic techniques of data collection. The paper is based on the specific challenges encountered by the researcher while doing the study of Social Compliance Audit (SCA). This paper draws from two bouts of fieldwork; each very different from the other. My first encounter is with the practice of SCA as a grad…
Contested Indigeneities
This article focuses on the development and transformations of adivasi political identity and its articulations with indigenous consciousness in India since the advent of colonial capitalism. The apogee of adivasi politics and the "politics of indigeneity" since the 1970s has coincided with the networking among indigenous groups within the United Nations. The history of such politics will be traced in order to illustrate the forms in which social…
Proletarian Internationalism in the Contemporary Women's Movement
This article discusses the influence of internationalist perspectives on the women's movement in India. It provides a history of anti-imperialist feminism in general but focuses on some of the major women's organizations in India. The aim is to trace the legacy of anti-imperialist feminist politics as a response to the strategies of Western imperialist powers to counter the influence of radical and socialist politics, particularly after the Russi…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (4 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Law (4 works)