Vibha Arora
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vibha Arora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vibha |
| FAMILY NAME | Arora |
| SIGNATURE | ARORA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7620-9909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From the cemetery to the stupa
The Roads (Not) Taken
Roads are bitumen covered concrete metaphors of modernity and development, and they materially represent fantasies, collective hopes, and aspirations of future(s). They symbolize movement, connectivity, transactions and transportation, and eminently reflect governmentality. Our article is about Manipur’s connective infrastructures, and it focuses on internal roads, and a border highway that connects Imphal (Manipur’s capital city) to Dimapur at N…
Citizens, the Smoking Guns of AFSPA and Bare Life in Northeast India
At the heart of ‘Indian nation-state making’ in the post-colonial context is dominant imagery and imaginary of Indian-ness, and there is an uncertain relationship between legitimate and illegitimate violence, and debate on integration and coercion of diverse nationalities in this state-nation. The ethnic nationalities of India’s Northeast have not been well integrated into the Indian imaginary and share a sense of belonging. Insurgency shapes the…
Democratisation in the Himalayas
Demand for Kukiland and Kuki ethnic nationalism 1
This chapter explains the historic rise of Kuki ethnic nationalism in Northeast India, particularly in Manipur, and the emergent demand for an exclusive Kuki homeland. It focuses on key events both in history and in the contemporary period, especially the ethnic violence of the 1990s, which have challenged the pace of democratic development in the state. The chapter highlights the role of chiefs and Kuki political elite and their organisations in…
Democratisation in the Himalayas
We can live without power, but we can’t live without our land’
The Politics of Identifying with and Distancing from Kuki Identity in Manipur
Framing the image of Sikkim
This article highlights the poetics and politics of visual culture and specifically tourist brochures and picture postcards that frame an indigenous Buddhist Sikkim for domestic and international tourists. Located in Northeast India, Himalayan Sikkim is a cultural mosaic constituted by almost 22 Indo-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan groups residing therein. It is argued that visual representations incisively frame Sikkim as a Buddhist landscape by selectiv…
They are All Set to Dam(n) Our Future’
Dams have become political symbols of conquest of nature and representative of development of in India. Impervious to the widespread critique of development through hydraulic gigantism, the planners in Sikkim have identified cascade development of the perennial river waters of Rangit and Teesta as the channel for modernising and developing its economy. This rhetoric has become questionable after three Lepcha youth affiliated to the Affected Citiz…
Assertive Identities, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Recognition as a Tribe
Using the case of the Bhutias, the Lepchas, and the Limbus, who are defined as tribes in contemporary Sikkim, this article discusses the 'politics of identity' and the 'identity politics' of being and becoming tribal in India. The cultural politics transforming a group into a tribe and a 'Scheduled Tribe' reflects its political strength and power to influence the regime of representation in order to appropriate preferential entitlements and resou…
Politics of Class(ness) in the Farmers’ Movement in India
Selon la perspective theorique des nouveaux mouvements sociaux, la Societe civile vient en opposition a l'Etat, afin de garantir les libertes democratiques fondamentales. L'A se propose de tester la validite de ce paradigme a propos du mouvement d'agriculteurs en Inde, en etudiant le cas des Shetkari Sanghatana de Maharashtra, ou quelques sections de la population rurale exercent leur hegemonie sur le reste de la population rurale, mettant en ava…
Asia
India
Assertive Identities, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Recognition as a Tribe
Using the case of the Bhutias, the Lepchas, and the Limbus, who are defined as tribes in contemporary Sikkim, this article discusses the 'politics of identity' and the 'identity politics' of being and becoming tribal in India. The cultural politics transforming a group into a tribe and a 'Scheduled Tribe' reflects its political strength and power to influence the regime of representation in order to appropriate preferential entitlements and resou…
We can live without power, but we can’t live without our land’
They are All Set to Dam(n) Our Future’
Dams have become political symbols of conquest of nature and representative of development of in India. Impervious to the widespread critique of development through hydraulic gigantism, the planners in Sikkim have identified cascade development of the perennial river waters of Rangit and Teesta as the channel for modernising and developing its economy. This rhetoric has become questionable after three Lepcha youth affiliated to the Affected Citiz…
The Roads (Not) Taken
Roads are bitumen covered concrete metaphors of modernity and development, and they materially represent fantasies, collective hopes, and aspirations of future(s). They symbolize movement, connectivity, transactions and transportation, and eminently reflect governmentality. Our article is about Manipur’s connective infrastructures, and it focuses on internal roads, and a border highway that connects Imphal (Manipur’s capital city) to Dimapur at N…
The Politics of Identifying with and Distancing from Kuki Identity in Manipur
Citizens, the Smoking Guns of AFSPA and Bare Life in Northeast India
At the heart of ‘Indian nation-state making’ in the post-colonial context is dominant imagery and imaginary of Indian-ness, and there is an uncertain relationship between legitimate and illegitimate violence, and debate on integration and coercion of diverse nationalities in this state-nation. The ethnic nationalities of India’s Northeast have not been well integrated into the Indian imaginary and share a sense of belonging. Insurgency shapes the…
Politics of Class(ness) in the Farmers’ Movement in India
Selon la perspective theorique des nouveaux mouvements sociaux, la Societe civile vient en opposition a l'Etat, afin de garantir les libertes democratiques fondamentales. L'A se propose de tester la validite de ce paradigme a propos du mouvement d'agriculteurs en Inde, en etudiant le cas des Shetkari Sanghatana de Maharashtra, ou quelques sections de la population rurale exercent leur hegemonie sur le reste de la population rurale, mettant en ava…
India
Asia
Politics of Class(ness) in the Farmers’ Movement in India
Selon la perspective theorique des nouveaux mouvements sociaux, la Societe civile vient en opposition a l'Etat, afin de garantir les libertes democratiques fondamentales. L'A se propose de tester la validite de ce paradigme a propos du mouvement d'agriculteurs en Inde, en etudiant le cas des Shetkari Sanghatana de Maharashtra, ou quelques sections de la population rurale exercent leur hegemonie sur le reste de la population rurale, mettant en ava…
Assertive Identities, Indigeneity, and the Politics of Recognition as a Tribe
Using the case of the Bhutias, the Lepchas, and the Limbus, who are defined as tribes in contemporary Sikkim, this article discusses the 'politics of identity' and the 'identity politics' of being and becoming tribal in India. The cultural politics transforming a group into a tribe and a 'Scheduled Tribe' reflects its political strength and power to influence the regime of representation in order to appropriate preferential entitlements and resou…
Framing the image of Sikkim
This article highlights the poetics and politics of visual culture and specifically tourist brochures and picture postcards that frame an indigenous Buddhist Sikkim for domestic and international tourists. Located in Northeast India, Himalayan Sikkim is a cultural mosaic constituted by almost 22 Indo-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan groups residing therein. It is argued that visual representations incisively frame Sikkim as a Buddhist landscape by selectiv…
They are All Set to Dam(n) Our Future’
Dams have become political symbols of conquest of nature and representative of development of in India. Impervious to the widespread critique of development through hydraulic gigantism, the planners in Sikkim have identified cascade development of the perennial river waters of Rangit and Teesta as the channel for modernising and developing its economy. This rhetoric has become questionable after three Lepcha youth affiliated to the Affected Citiz…
We can live without power, but we can’t live without our land’
The Politics of Identifying with and Distancing from Kuki Identity in Manipur
Democratisation in the Himalayas
Demand for Kukiland and Kuki ethnic nationalism 1
This chapter explains the historic rise of Kuki ethnic nationalism in Northeast India, particularly in Manipur, and the emergent demand for an exclusive Kuki homeland. It focuses on key events both in history and in the contemporary period, especially the ethnic violence of the 1990s, which have challenged the pace of democratic development in the state. The chapter highlights the role of chiefs and Kuki political elite and their organisations in…
Democratisation in the Himalayas
The Roads (Not) Taken
Roads are bitumen covered concrete metaphors of modernity and development, and they materially represent fantasies, collective hopes, and aspirations of future(s). They symbolize movement, connectivity, transactions and transportation, and eminently reflect governmentality. Our article is about Manipur’s connective infrastructures, and it focuses on internal roads, and a border highway that connects Imphal (Manipur’s capital city) to Dimapur at N…
Citizens, the Smoking Guns of AFSPA and Bare Life in Northeast India
At the heart of ‘Indian nation-state making’ in the post-colonial context is dominant imagery and imaginary of Indian-ness, and there is an uncertain relationship between legitimate and illegitimate violence, and debate on integration and coercion of diverse nationalities in this state-nation. The ethnic nationalities of India’s Northeast have not been well integrated into the Indian imaginary and share a sense of belonging. Insurgency shapes the…
From the cemetery to the stupa
Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (4 works)