Rajgopal Saikumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6055592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajgopal Saikumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajgopal |
| FAMILY NAME | Saikumar |
| SIGNATURE | SAIKUMAR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University, New York, NY, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading in the absolute night
In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ra…
Jurisdictional Crisis in the Kashmir Novel
The India-Pakistan relationship and its hold over Kashmir is often described by words such as deadlock, intractability , and stalemate ; conveying a geopolitics of “stuckness.” Within conditions of postcolonial era colonialism, and at the intersection of constitutional law and literature, this article explores this stuckness as a jurisdictional crisis. A constitution first and foremost constitutes jurisdictions. Appropriation of land by delimitin…
To Shock the Conscience’
The dominant paradigm in scholarship on death penalty law in India is doctrinal and empirical. There is an equally indispensable need for a third approach that focuses on the rhetoric of and in death penalty judgements. In the first part of the paper I argue why such an approach is necessary, and in the second part I instantiate this by a close reading of narrative techniques and rhetorical devices deployed in two recent Supreme Court judgements.…
Reading in the absolute night
In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ra…
Jurisdictional Crisis in the Kashmir Novel
The India-Pakistan relationship and its hold over Kashmir is often described by words such as deadlock, intractability , and stalemate ; conveying a geopolitics of “stuckness.” Within conditions of postcolonial era colonialism, and at the intersection of constitutional law and literature, this article explores this stuckness as a jurisdictional crisis. A constitution first and foremost constitutes jurisdictions. Appropriation of land by delimitin…
To Shock the Conscience’
The dominant paradigm in scholarship on death penalty law in India is doctrinal and empirical. There is an equally indispensable need for a third approach that focuses on the rhetoric of and in death penalty judgements. In the first part of the paper I argue why such an approach is necessary, and in the second part I instantiate this by a close reading of narrative techniques and rhetorical devices deployed in two recent Supreme Court judgements.…
Reading in the absolute night
In this article, I engage with Manav Ratti’s book The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature (2013) through three frameworks. First, I consider the book within two historical phases, 1989–2014 and post-2014. I argue that reading Ratti’s book through the latter phase has implications for the problem of enchantment in populism. Second, although postsecularism is the central concept in his book, I draw attention to how Ra…
Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Absolute (philosophy (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work)