Nicolas Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5682127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolas Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolas |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asien-Orient-Institut, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1367-4330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Brouillard vert
À partir de la notion de « confusionnisme » proposée par Philippe Corcuff, cette table ronde interroge les brouillages idéologiques qui traversent aujourd’hui l’écologie politique et, au-delà, l’ensemble de la gauche. En croisant expériences militantes, pratiques professionnelles et analyses théoriques, cette table ronde dessine des zones grises dans lesquelles la gauche semble perdre sa boussole, tandis que l’extrême droite y avance ses pions...…
Penser en vert et contre soi
Dans ce kit militant exceptionnel, les militants et militantes ayant participé à la table ronde de ce dossier (Voir dans ce dossier, « Brouillard vert. Quelle boussole pour l’écologie politique ? », p. 39.), explicitent ici le cadre de leurs militantismes respectifs. A quels endroits le confusionnisme se joue-t-il de ces différents points de vue et quelles pistes peut-on envisager pour tenter de s’en défaire individuellement et collectivement
Anthropological Perspectives on Elections
This chapter highlights the contribution of anthropology to studying elections by combining long-term fieldwork with a holistic view of social life. It argues that to shed light on the processes that shape electoral outcomes requires a broader perspective, considering the social and temporal contexts that surround official electoral periods. Along these lines, anthropological research has provided in-depth analysis of the social dynamics that occ…
Zéro artificialisation nette en France
Mafia Raj
Offering ethnographic depth that will be invaluable to students and scholars of politics and anthropology in South Asia, Mafia Raj examines the everyday workings of bosses across seven towns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The authors craft a cogent, but uniquely multifaceted, view of the personal struggles for sovereignty of seven distinct types of strongmen as they ascend the ladder of power
Thana-katcheri politics
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Shandana Khan Mohmand’s book Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters (2019). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by three interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book
Democracy and Discrimination
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indian and Pakistani Punjab, this paper focuses on how, despite membership in or conversion to majority religious communities, former untouchables in both countries continue to experience caste-based discrimination. In India, a rights-based idiom for caste politics is limited by fragmentation within the Dalit community and the compromises required by electoral politics, while the imposition of a totalising Islami…
Special issue
Despite official reports and widespread popular accounts of electoral fraud, manipulation, and violence in India and Pakistan, this topic has not been systematically addressed by the scholarly literature. This special issue explores how electoral malpractices are performed across a variety of settings (villages, small towns and cities) in criminalised political contexts. Our in-depth ethnographic studies of the electoral seasons show how fraud an…
Enforcing political loyalties in local elections
Ethnographic studies from the decades after Indian independence showed how subordinate castes once delivered their votes to upper caste patrons in exchange for patronage, credit and employment, and out of a sense of hierarchical deference. Literature on rural India suggests that such relations of dominance, and the vote banks associated with them, are a thing of the past, not least because the secret vote has enabled the lower castes to vote agai…
Corruption and Factionalism in Contemporary Punjab
Over the length of its current tenure, Punjab's Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has sought to become more a socially inclusive party, more responsive to popular demands, and even to improve service delivery and eradicate corruption. However, despite these lofty goals, it has also presided over what people refer to as 'goonda raj'-a rule of thugs-and has managed to alienate large sections of the population and, in the process, fuelled the rise of the an…
Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
KARACHI, a city of 21,2 million inhabitants, is Pakistan's largest and most important commercial hub, and its politics can impact the stability of national governments.In this fascinating and beautifully crafted political history of post-colonial Karachi, Gayer tells the story of how the city became the violent and fragmented place it is today : a place riven by murderous ethnic, sectarian, and gang related turf-wars.In 2011, a bookseller tells G…
The Dark Side of Political Society
Development optimists in South Asia have argued that electoral politics and the reduced role of villages as centres of economic activity have largely put an end to exploitation by dominant castes. Although the political arrangements that have emerged out of these changes fall short of the idealized standards of civil society, various commentators have argued that they nevertheless benefit subordinate classes. Partha Chatterjee even argues that th…
The political economy of bonded labour in the Pakistani Punjab
This article examines economic and social relations in order to understand political assertion and mobilisation among rural bonded labourers in the Pakistan Punjab. Bonded labour, characterised by economic and extra-economic forms of compulsion together with vertical ties of patronage, remains widespread in the region. I propose that the perpetuation of these relations is largely explained by the capture of state institutions by a traditional lan…
The Wild East
The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regul…
The political economy of bonded labour in the Pakistani Punjab
This article examines economic and social relations in order to understand political assertion and mobilisation among rural bonded labourers in the Pakistan Punjab. Bonded labour, characterised by economic and extra-economic forms of compulsion together with vertical ties of patronage, remains widespread in the region. I propose that the perpetuation of these relations is largely explained by the capture of state institutions by a traditional lan…
Corruption and Factionalism in Contemporary Punjab
Over the length of its current tenure, Punjab's Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has sought to become more a socially inclusive party, more responsive to popular demands, and even to improve service delivery and eradicate corruption. However, despite these lofty goals, it has also presided over what people refer to as 'goonda raj'-a rule of thugs-and has managed to alienate large sections of the population and, in the process, fuelled the rise of the an…
The Dark Side of Political Society
Development optimists in South Asia have argued that electoral politics and the reduced role of villages as centres of economic activity have largely put an end to exploitation by dominant castes. Although the political arrangements that have emerged out of these changes fall short of the idealized standards of civil society, various commentators have argued that they nevertheless benefit subordinate classes. Partha Chatterjee even argues that th…
Democracy and Discrimination
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indian and Pakistani Punjab, this paper focuses on how, despite membership in or conversion to majority religious communities, former untouchables in both countries continue to experience caste-based discrimination. In India, a rights-based idiom for caste politics is limited by fragmentation within the Dalit community and the compromises required by electoral politics, while the imposition of a totalising Islami…
Special issue
Despite official reports and widespread popular accounts of electoral fraud, manipulation, and violence in India and Pakistan, this topic has not been systematically addressed by the scholarly literature. This special issue explores how electoral malpractices are performed across a variety of settings (villages, small towns and cities) in criminalised political contexts. Our in-depth ethnographic studies of the electoral seasons show how fraud an…
Thana-katcheri politics
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Shandana Khan Mohmand’s book Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters (2019). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by three interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book
Enforcing political loyalties in local elections
Ethnographic studies from the decades after Indian independence showed how subordinate castes once delivered their votes to upper caste patrons in exchange for patronage, credit and employment, and out of a sense of hierarchical deference. Literature on rural India suggests that such relations of dominance, and the vote banks associated with them, are a thing of the past, not least because the secret vote has enabled the lower castes to vote agai…
The political economy of bonded labour in the Pakistani Punjab
This article examines economic and social relations in order to understand political assertion and mobilisation among rural bonded labourers in the Pakistan Punjab. Bonded labour, characterised by economic and extra-economic forms of compulsion together with vertical ties of patronage, remains widespread in the region. I propose that the perpetuation of these relations is largely explained by the capture of state institutions by a traditional lan…
The Dark Side of Political Society
Development optimists in South Asia have argued that electoral politics and the reduced role of villages as centres of economic activity have largely put an end to exploitation by dominant castes. Although the political arrangements that have emerged out of these changes fall short of the idealized standards of civil society, various commentators have argued that they nevertheless benefit subordinate classes. Partha Chatterjee even argues that th…
Karachi. Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
KARACHI, a city of 21,2 million inhabitants, is Pakistan's largest and most important commercial hub, and its politics can impact the stability of national governments.In this fascinating and beautifully crafted political history of post-colonial Karachi, Gayer tells the story of how the city became the violent and fragmented place it is today : a place riven by murderous ethnic, sectarian, and gang related turf-wars.In 2011, a bookseller tells G…
Corruption and Factionalism in Contemporary Punjab
Over the length of its current tenure, Punjab's Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) has sought to become more a socially inclusive party, more responsive to popular demands, and even to improve service delivery and eradicate corruption. However, despite these lofty goals, it has also presided over what people refer to as 'goonda raj'-a rule of thugs-and has managed to alienate large sections of the population and, in the process, fuelled the rise of the an…
Special issue
Despite official reports and widespread popular accounts of electoral fraud, manipulation, and violence in India and Pakistan, this topic has not been systematically addressed by the scholarly literature. This special issue explores how electoral malpractices are performed across a variety of settings (villages, small towns and cities) in criminalised political contexts. Our in-depth ethnographic studies of the electoral seasons show how fraud an…
Enforcing political loyalties in local elections
Ethnographic studies from the decades after Indian independence showed how subordinate castes once delivered their votes to upper caste patrons in exchange for patronage, credit and employment, and out of a sense of hierarchical deference. Literature on rural India suggests that such relations of dominance, and the vote banks associated with them, are a thing of the past, not least because the secret vote has enabled the lower castes to vote agai…
Mafia Raj
Offering ethnographic depth that will be invaluable to students and scholars of politics and anthropology in South Asia, Mafia Raj examines the everyday workings of bosses across seven towns in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. The authors craft a cogent, but uniquely multifaceted, view of the personal struggles for sovereignty of seven distinct types of strongmen as they ascend the ladder of power
Thana-katcheri politics
This article is part of a Book Forum review of Shandana Khan Mohmand’s book Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters (2019). The Book Forum consists of individual commentaries on this text by three interested scholars, followed by a response by the author. The article may be read individually or alongside the other contributions to the Forum, which together constitute a comprehensive discussion of the themes and arguments in the book
Democracy and Discrimination
Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Indian and Pakistani Punjab, this paper focuses on how, despite membership in or conversion to majority religious communities, former untouchables in both countries continue to experience caste-based discrimination. In India, a rights-based idiom for caste politics is limited by fragmentation within the Dalit community and the compromises required by electoral politics, while the imposition of a totalising Islami…
Anthropological Perspectives on Elections
This chapter highlights the contribution of anthropology to studying elections by combining long-term fieldwork with a holistic view of social life. It argues that to shed light on the processes that shape electoral outcomes requires a broader perspective, considering the social and temporal contexts that surround official electoral periods. Along these lines, anthropological research has provided in-depth analysis of the social dynamics that occ…
Zéro artificialisation nette en France
Brouillard vert
À partir de la notion de « confusionnisme » proposée par Philippe Corcuff, cette table ronde interroge les brouillages idéologiques qui traversent aujourd’hui l’écologie politique et, au-delà, l’ensemble de la gauche. En croisant expériences militantes, pratiques professionnelles et analyses théoriques, cette table ronde dessine des zones grises dans lesquelles la gauche semble perdre sa boussole, tandis que l’extrême droite y avance ses pions...…
Penser en vert et contre soi
Dans ce kit militant exceptionnel, les militants et militantes ayant participé à la table ronde de ce dossier (Voir dans ce dossier, « Brouillard vert. Quelle boussole pour l’écologie politique ? », p. 39.), explicitent ici le cadre de leurs militantismes respectifs. A quels endroits le confusionnisme se joue-t-il de ces différents points de vue et quelles pistes peut-on envisager pour tenter de s’en défaire individuellement et collectivement
The Wild East
The Wild East bridges political economy and anthropology to examine a variety of il/legal economic sectors and businesses such as red sanders, coal, fire, oil, sand, air spectrum, land, water, real estate, procurement and industrial labour. The 11 case studies, based across India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, explore how state regulative law is often ignored and/or selectively manipulated. The emerging collective narrative shows the workings of regul…
Political science (9 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (7 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (4 works)