Asha Varadharajan
Biographic Data
| ID | 640461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asha Varadharajan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asha |
| FAMILY NAME | Varadharajan |
| SIGNATURE | VARADHARAJAN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”
This essay reflects on the connection between the Humanities and democracy with the aim of formulating an alternative critique that does not confuse democracy with nor concedes it to oligarchy, that does not exclusively reside in academic culture, and that does not elide cultural difference and translation. While agreeing with Martha Nussbaum that there should be strong ties between humanistic inquiry and democratic sensibilities, this essay conc…
Half-Sick of Shadows
This essay moves the category of the subaltern out of the exclusive domain of colonial historiography and resituates it in the context of contemporaneity. Taking my cue from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s insistence on the dream of postcoloniality in the realm of the global, I examine two ‘empirical anomalies’ that redefine subaltern insurgency, cultivate democratic reflexes, and defeat the expectations of their moment and milieu. Vivek Chibber’s P…
Afterword
This essay deploys a bricolage of the reflections of Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, William E. Connolly, and Achille Mbembe in order to construct a phenomenology of violence. While much of the essay is a response to the collection's trenchant analysis of the historicity of violence and of the conditions of its representability and narration, its effort is to supplement the conversation about the violence of our contemporaneity with philosophica…
Half-Sick of Shadows
This essay moves the category of the subaltern out of the exclusive domain of colonial historiography and resituates it in the context of contemporaneity. Taking my cue from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s insistence on the dream of postcoloniality in the realm of the global, I examine two ‘empirical anomalies’ that redefine subaltern insurgency, cultivate democratic reflexes, and defeat the expectations of their moment and milieu. Vivek Chibber’s P…
Afterword
This essay deploys a bricolage of the reflections of Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, William E. Connolly, and Achille Mbembe in order to construct a phenomenology of violence. While much of the essay is a response to the collection's trenchant analysis of the historicity of violence and of the conditions of its representability and narration, its effort is to supplement the conversation about the violence of our contemporaneity with philosophica…
Afterword
This essay deploys a bricolage of the reflections of Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, William E. Connolly, and Achille Mbembe in order to construct a phenomenology of violence. While much of the essay is a response to the collection's trenchant analysis of the historicity of violence and of the conditions of its representability and narration, its effort is to supplement the conversation about the violence of our contemporaneity with philosophica…
Half-Sick of Shadows
This essay moves the category of the subaltern out of the exclusive domain of colonial historiography and resituates it in the context of contemporaneity. Taking my cue from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s insistence on the dream of postcoloniality in the realm of the global, I examine two ‘empirical anomalies’ that redefine subaltern insurgency, cultivate democratic reflexes, and defeat the expectations of their moment and milieu. Vivek Chibber’s P…
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me”
This essay reflects on the connection between the Humanities and democracy with the aim of formulating an alternative critique that does not confuse democracy with nor concedes it to oligarchy, that does not exclusively reside in academic culture, and that does not elide cultural difference and translation. While agreeing with Martha Nussbaum that there should be strong ties between humanistic inquiry and democratic sensibilities, this essay conc…
Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)