Manjusha Nair
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685642 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manjusha Nair |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manjusha |
| FAMILY NAME | Nair |
| SIGNATURE | NAIR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9715-4812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Interweaving Afro-Asian Solidarity: A Global Textile Factory Floor in Ethiopia
Between land and the market: Farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh
In this article, I seek to understand the subnational variations in protests against land acqusition in India by comparing Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh (UP). Current scholarship explains these subnational variations through an analysis of subnational state policies of land acquisition. I suggest a people-centered approach that pays more attention to how the regional forms of mobilization have been shaped by the historical trajectories o…
Regimes, Resistance and Reforms: Comparing Workers' Politics in the Automobile Industry in China and India
The automobile industry in China was shaken by an unprecedented upsurge of labour unrest in 2010, beginning with the much-discussed wildcat strike at the Nanhai Honda transmission plant in Guangdong province. While worker activism in auto plants in India was not as concentrated as in China’s 2010 strike wave, the period 2009–2017 witnessed twenty-seven strikes nationwide, indicating a significant uptick after the global recession. The optimism th…
Land as a Transactional Asset: Moral Economy and Market Logic in Contested Land Acquisition in India
The state seizure of land from farmers for development projects has triggered numerous protests in India. How far can these protests be characterized as a Polanyian countermovement to reclaim rights on land, resisting the encroachment of neoliberal market forces on society? Based on field research conducted in 2013-17 in two villages in prosperous western Uttar Pradesh that were host to a series of dramatic and violent protests in 2011, this arti…
Against the Market: Local Communities and Polanyian Contention in India and Turkey
The widening reach of neoliberal reforms, global production chains, and market relations has been displacing the means of livelihood for many social groups around the world. In contrast to what the proponents of globalization contend, such displacements have jeopardized the livelihood of social groups that were sidelined by market-friendly reforms. A large body of scholarship suggests that such conditions are likely to generate popular protest ag…
Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
Global Agenda for Social Justice: Volume One
The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems, and issues concerning sexualities and gender.
State-Embedded Villages: Rural Protests and Rights Awareness in India and China
Theorizing Digital Divides
The Internet's rapid growth and its uptake in almost every aspect of daily life have delivered countless social benefits. But the cybersphere's self-publishing opportunities and networked design are offering people new ways to attack each other with unprecedented venom and impunity. This chapter focuses on cyberhate that is directed at women and that is gendered in nature. It focuses on feminist theory, legal scholarship, and philosophical consid…
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective
Christiane Brosius (2010) India’s Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
Differences in Workers' Narratives of Contention in Two Central Indian Towns
Contract work in India, though legally regulated by a 1970 Act, is widespread and mostly unrecognized. With the implementation of neoliberal policies in India since the 1990s, contract work has become the norm. There are now few spaces in which contract workers can get redress through the legal system. Using oral history narratives of contract workers' participation in a labor movement, this article shows how narratives of contention differ in th…
Mixed Repertoire of an Indian Labor Movement, 1990-2006
This article analyzes the protest repertoire of an Indian labor movement between 1990 and 2006. Chhattisgarh Liberation Front led a seventeen year struggle against the industrialists and state in central India for the recognition of contract workers' entitlements. During this long contentious history, the movement deployed disruptive repertoire, ranging from relatively legitimate "wild-cat strikes" (illegal stoppage of work) to extreme physical a…
Economic comparison of two strategies of oral cancer screening
Cancer is an important public health problem and new strategies are needed for its prevention and control. Due to socioeconomic constraints, a lack of adequate health care infrastructure and other competing health priorities in Trivandrum, there is a pressing need to evaluate locally feasible and cost-effective cancer control strategies. The Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram (RCCT), therefore developed and tested two innovative strategie…
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
Land as a Transactional Asset: Moral Economy and Market Logic in Contested Land Acquisition in India
The state seizure of land from farmers for development projects has triggered numerous protests in India. How far can these protests be characterized as a Polanyian countermovement to reclaim rights on land, resisting the encroachment of neoliberal market forces on society? Based on field research conducted in 2013-17 in two villages in prosperous western Uttar Pradesh that were host to a series of dramatic and violent protests in 2011, this arti…
Mixed Repertoire of an Indian Labor Movement, 1990-2006
This article analyzes the protest repertoire of an Indian labor movement between 1990 and 2006. Chhattisgarh Liberation Front led a seventeen year struggle against the industrialists and state in central India for the recognition of contract workers' entitlements. During this long contentious history, the movement deployed disruptive repertoire, ranging from relatively legitimate "wild-cat strikes" (illegal stoppage of work) to extreme physical a…
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
Differences in Workers' Narratives of Contention in Two Central Indian Towns
Contract work in India, though legally regulated by a 1970 Act, is widespread and mostly unrecognized. With the implementation of neoliberal policies in India since the 1990s, contract work has become the norm. There are now few spaces in which contract workers can get redress through the legal system. Using oral history narratives of contract workers' participation in a labor movement, this article shows how narratives of contention differ in th…
Economic comparison of two strategies of oral cancer screening
Cancer is an important public health problem and new strategies are needed for its prevention and control. Due to socioeconomic constraints, a lack of adequate health care infrastructure and other competing health priorities in Trivandrum, there is a pressing need to evaluate locally feasible and cost-effective cancer control strategies. The Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram (RCCT), therefore developed and tested two innovative strategie…
Mixed Repertoire of an Indian Labor Movement, 1990-2006
This article analyzes the protest repertoire of an Indian labor movement between 1990 and 2006. Chhattisgarh Liberation Front led a seventeen year struggle against the industrialists and state in central India for the recognition of contract workers' entitlements. During this long contentious history, the movement deployed disruptive repertoire, ranging from relatively legitimate "wild-cat strikes" (illegal stoppage of work) to extreme physical a…
Differences in Workers' Narratives of Contention in Two Central Indian Towns
Contract work in India, though legally regulated by a 1970 Act, is widespread and mostly unrecognized. With the implementation of neoliberal policies in India since the 1990s, contract work has become the norm. There are now few spaces in which contract workers can get redress through the legal system. Using oral history narratives of contract workers' participation in a labor movement, this article shows how narratives of contention differ in th…
Christiane Brosius (2010) India’s Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity
The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective
Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions for 2016
The Agenda for Social Justice: Solutions 2016 provides accessible insights into some of the most pressing social problems in the United States and proposes public policy responses to those problems. It offers recommendations for action around key issues for social justice
Globalization and Its Countermovement: Marxian Contention or Polanyian Resistance
This article surveys the scholarship on the countermovement against the diffusion of capitalism and market economy in the Global South. We identify two streams of analysis in the literature. On the one hand, scholars observe contentious politics instances where the spread of capitalist production relations enables the associational capacity and bargaining power of social classes. On the other hand, there are voluminous studies on contentious poli…
Theorizing Digital Divides
The Internet's rapid growth and its uptake in almost every aspect of daily life have delivered countless social benefits. But the cybersphere's self-publishing opportunities and networked design are offering people new ways to attack each other with unprecedented venom and impunity. This chapter focuses on cyberhate that is directed at women and that is gendered in nature. It focuses on feminist theory, legal scholarship, and philosophical consid…
Global Agenda for Social Justice: Volume One
The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world's most pressing social problems and proposes international public policy responses to those problems. Chapters examine topics such as criminal justice, media concerns, environmental problems, economic problems, and issues concerning sexualities and gender.
State-Embedded Villages: Rural Protests and Rights Awareness in India and China
Against the Market: Local Communities and Polanyian Contention in India and Turkey
The widening reach of neoliberal reforms, global production chains, and market relations has been displacing the means of livelihood for many social groups around the world. In contrast to what the proponents of globalization contend, such displacements have jeopardized the livelihood of social groups that were sidelined by market-friendly reforms. A large body of scholarship suggests that such conditions are likely to generate popular protest ag…
Dispossession without Development: Land Grabs in Neoliberal India
Precarization and Labor Resistance: Canada, the USA, India and China
Precarization, in its form and consequences, varies across workers, sectors and geographies. The five articles in this special issue examine ways that workers have struggled with and against precarious labor in different contexts, from low-wage retail and service workers in Canada and the USA, to manufacturing and construction workers in India and China. In particular, they show that the role of the state has been crucial in shaping the terrain o…
Land as a Transactional Asset: Moral Economy and Market Logic in Contested Land Acquisition in India
The state seizure of land from farmers for development projects has triggered numerous protests in India. How far can these protests be characterized as a Polanyian countermovement to reclaim rights on land, resisting the encroachment of neoliberal market forces on society? Based on field research conducted in 2013-17 in two villages in prosperous western Uttar Pradesh that were host to a series of dramatic and violent protests in 2011, this arti…
Regimes, Resistance and Reforms: Comparing Workers' Politics in the Automobile Industry in China and India
The automobile industry in China was shaken by an unprecedented upsurge of labour unrest in 2010, beginning with the much-discussed wildcat strike at the Nanhai Honda transmission plant in Guangdong province. While worker activism in auto plants in India was not as concentrated as in China’s 2010 strike wave, the period 2009–2017 witnessed twenty-seven strikes nationwide, indicating a significant uptick after the global recession. The optimism th…
Global Agenda for Social Justice 2
Interweaving Afro-Asian Solidarity: A Global Textile Factory Floor in Ethiopia
Between land and the market: Farmers’ mobilizations in Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh
In this article, I seek to understand the subnational variations in protests against land acqusition in India by comparing Chhattisgarh and western Uttar Pradesh (UP). Current scholarship explains these subnational variations through an analysis of subnational state policies of land acquisition. I suggest a people-centered approach that pays more attention to how the regional forms of mobilization have been shaped by the historical trajectories o…
Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South
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