Neha Thapliyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 807296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neha Thapliyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neha |
| FAMILY NAME | Thapliyal |
| SIGNATURE | THAPLIYAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3081-6310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Quiet Mainstreaming of Transnational Hindutva: Long Distance Nationalism and the Australian State
This article seeks to advance the scholarship on the Indian diasporic mobilisation of Hindutva by organisations linked to the Hindu nationalist movement. It does so by focusing not on typical accounts of civil society coordination, but rather on the case of Australia to explain how states that receive migrants actively facilitate the growth of the nationalist Sangh network’s influence outside of India. Focusing on these pull (rather than push) fa…
Taking ideology out: Finding the diasporic Hindu far-right down under
Common understandings of what the far-right is revolve around ideological commitments to nativism, anti-democratic sentiment and authoritarianism. However, the assumption that the far-right is best comprehended through ideological positions is undermined by extensive evidence that within far-right mobilisation ideological commitment is uneven, ambiguous, and sometimes absent. In this paper, we argue that this tension presents a fundamental obstac…
Understanding the influence of environmental factors on forest composition along the vertical gradient of Northwestern Himalaya
Temperate and alpine ecosystems are considered the most sensitive and vulnerable region towards climate change in the Indian Himalayan region. The current study investigates forest composition in relation to environmental and edaphic factors, which is critical for determining plant community patterns. The impact of climatic and soil properties was studied to better understand species diversity and composition over an elevational gradient (2500–48…
Disinformation and calculated care beyond the Global North: Comparing refugee discourses in Australia and India
This article explores what "care" looks like in the specific context of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers within the dominant discourse of humanitarianism. India and Australia are chosen for this comparative analysis because our aim is to emphasise multidimensional anti-Muslim alliances that are now in place in both contexts between the governments and official and unofficial media that influence humanitarian policies and practice. We argue that…
Ethnobotanical assessment of medicinal plants used in alpine regions of Uttarakhand, west Himalaya
Background: Himalaya, the youngest mountain biodiversity hotspot, embraces a variety of high-value medicinal flora used by the indigenous population to treat various health related ailments. However, this indigenous knowledge is gradually being lost owing to generation gaps and dependency on modern medicine. Thus, documentation of indigenous knowledge and evaluation of the use of plants assume greater significance to preserve the socio-economic a…
Duty, Discipline, and Dreams: Childhood and Time in Hindutva Nation
Childhood and time constitute key sites of regulation for nationalist authoritarian regimes. However, the influence of time on contemporary nationalist discourses of childhood located in the Global South remains an underresearched area. This paper critically analyzes two spectacles involving Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and secondary school students on the occasions of Teachers Day 2014 and 2015. Temporal language, marker…
Unmasking transnational Hindutva: Activist knowledge practices from the Indian diaspora
Activist research that conducts social investigation and analysis can be the key first step in organising at the grassroots and movement building. This paper critically analyses two research reports titled ‘The Foreign Exchange of Hate’ (Sabrang/Coalition against Genocide 2002 Sabrang/Coalition Against Genocide. 2002. The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Founding of Hindutva. Bombay: Sabrang Communications Private Limited. [Google …
Resisting Hindutva in the digital Indian diaspora: Notes from Australia
The study of how ethnonationalists mobilize digital media is not matched in size by an investigation into the progressive activists digitally mobilizing against them. This is especially true in diaspora communities, which form the focus of this work. In this paper, we discuss diasporic online progressive activism against one form of ethnonationalism, Hindutva. Situating our argument in the context of the Indian Australian diaspora, we argue that …
Global Desi: Possibilities and challenges for global citizenship education in India
The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as ‘intensified encounters with difference’ constituted by contradictory and paradoxical movements. A decolonial approach to constructing global imaginaries centres on reconfiguring human relations in ways that unmask complicity and denial and further healing, justice and solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on the possibilities and challenges for alternative approaches…
ThisisanEducationElection: The Changing Role of Media in Education Organizing
In November 2011, a coalition of New York City (NYC) education organizers and advocacy groups launched the PS2013 campaign to place public education at the center of the 2013 mayoral race. Activists developed a complex and situated communications strategy to influence a new space of political engagement, namely mayoral elections. This article is empirically grounded in a qualitative case study of the media strategies of the two-year PS2013 campai…
Eduresistance: A critical analysis of the role of digital media in collective struggles for public education in the USA
From Facebook-coordinated high-school walkouts to compelling Internet-based protest art that has accompanied recent teacher strikes, grassroots education activism in the USA has gone digital. Despite the proliferation of research on the mediatisation of education policy, few studies have explored the ways in which activists for public education engage with Web 2.0 technologies. This paper makes a contribution to this under-researched area by expl…
‘Let’s hear how students feel …’: Representations of schooling on news television in India
The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of their lives including schooling. This discussion explores the multiplicity of ways in which children actively make meaning about themselves in relation to the actors, institutions and discourses that constitute their lived worlds. It is empirically grounded in critical media analysis of two 2009 prime-time English language television news programmes …
Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
The work of knowledge production, albeit embedded with contradiction and contestation, is intrinsic to the work of organizing and mobilizing masses of people. However, the neoliberal knowledge econ
Percepções e experiências de participação cidadã de crianças e adolescentes no Rio de Janeiro
Este artigo discute os resultados de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com crianças e adolescentes sobre suas percepções e experiências de participação, cidadania, direitos e responsabilidades1. O estudo foi conduzido em escolas públicas e privadas na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e realizado com crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua e do Movimento Sem-Terra (MST). A pesquisa abordou questões relativas às dimensões sociais, econômicas e políticas, assim…
Eduresistance: A critical analysis of the role of digital media in collective struggles for public education in the USA
From Facebook-coordinated high-school walkouts to compelling Internet-based protest art that has accompanied recent teacher strikes, grassroots education activism in the USA has gone digital. Despite the proliferation of research on the mediatisation of education policy, few studies have explored the ways in which activists for public education engage with Web 2.0 technologies. This paper makes a contribution to this under-researched area by expl…
Unmasking transnational Hindutva: Activist knowledge practices from the Indian diaspora
Activist research that conducts social investigation and analysis can be the key first step in organising at the grassroots and movement building. This paper critically analyses two research reports titled ‘The Foreign Exchange of Hate’ (Sabrang/Coalition against Genocide 2002 Sabrang/Coalition Against Genocide. 2002. The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Founding of Hindutva. Bombay: Sabrang Communications Private Limited. [Google …
Global Desi: Possibilities and challenges for global citizenship education in India
The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as ‘intensified encounters with difference’ constituted by contradictory and paradoxical movements. A decolonial approach to constructing global imaginaries centres on reconfiguring human relations in ways that unmask complicity and denial and further healing, justice and solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on the possibilities and challenges for alternative approaches…
Percepções e experiências de participação cidadã de crianças e adolescentes no Rio de Janeiro
Este artigo discute os resultados de uma pesquisa desenvolvida com crianças e adolescentes sobre suas percepções e experiências de participação, cidadania, direitos e responsabilidades1. O estudo foi conduzido em escolas públicas e privadas na cidade do Rio de Janeiro, e realizado com crianças e adolescentes em situação de rua e do Movimento Sem-Terra (MST). A pesquisa abordou questões relativas às dimensões sociais, econômicas e políticas, assim…
‘Let’s hear how students feel …’: Representations of schooling on news television in India
The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of their lives including schooling. This discussion explores the multiplicity of ways in which children actively make meaning about themselves in relation to the actors, institutions and discourses that constitute their lived worlds. It is empirically grounded in critical media analysis of two 2009 prime-time English language television news programmes …
Learning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements
The work of knowledge production, albeit embedded with contradiction and contestation, is intrinsic to the work of organizing and mobilizing masses of people. However, the neoliberal knowledge econ
Eduresistance: A critical analysis of the role of digital media in collective struggles for public education in the USA
From Facebook-coordinated high-school walkouts to compelling Internet-based protest art that has accompanied recent teacher strikes, grassroots education activism in the USA has gone digital. Despite the proliferation of research on the mediatisation of education policy, few studies have explored the ways in which activists for public education engage with Web 2.0 technologies. This paper makes a contribution to this under-researched area by expl…
ThisisanEducationElection: The Changing Role of Media in Education Organizing
In November 2011, a coalition of New York City (NYC) education organizers and advocacy groups launched the PS2013 campaign to place public education at the center of the 2013 mayoral race. Activists developed a complex and situated communications strategy to influence a new space of political engagement, namely mayoral elections. This article is empirically grounded in a qualitative case study of the media strategies of the two-year PS2013 campai…
Global Desi: Possibilities and challenges for global citizenship education in India
The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as ‘intensified encounters with difference’ constituted by contradictory and paradoxical movements. A decolonial approach to constructing global imaginaries centres on reconfiguring human relations in ways that unmask complicity and denial and further healing, justice and solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on the possibilities and challenges for alternative approaches…
Resisting Hindutva in the digital Indian diaspora: Notes from Australia
The study of how ethnonationalists mobilize digital media is not matched in size by an investigation into the progressive activists digitally mobilizing against them. This is especially true in diaspora communities, which form the focus of this work. In this paper, we discuss diasporic online progressive activism against one form of ethnonationalism, Hindutva. Situating our argument in the context of the Indian Australian diaspora, we argue that …
Duty, Discipline, and Dreams: Childhood and Time in Hindutva Nation
Childhood and time constitute key sites of regulation for nationalist authoritarian regimes. However, the influence of time on contemporary nationalist discourses of childhood located in the Global South remains an underresearched area. This paper critically analyzes two spectacles involving Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and secondary school students on the occasions of Teachers Day 2014 and 2015. Temporal language, marker…
Unmasking transnational Hindutva: Activist knowledge practices from the Indian diaspora
Activist research that conducts social investigation and analysis can be the key first step in organising at the grassroots and movement building. This paper critically analyses two research reports titled ‘The Foreign Exchange of Hate’ (Sabrang/Coalition against Genocide 2002 Sabrang/Coalition Against Genocide. 2002. The Foreign Exchange of Hate: IDRF and the American Founding of Hindutva. Bombay: Sabrang Communications Private Limited. [Google …
Understanding the influence of environmental factors on forest composition along the vertical gradient of Northwestern Himalaya
Temperate and alpine ecosystems are considered the most sensitive and vulnerable region towards climate change in the Indian Himalayan region. The current study investigates forest composition in relation to environmental and edaphic factors, which is critical for determining plant community patterns. The impact of climatic and soil properties was studied to better understand species diversity and composition over an elevational gradient (2500–48…
Disinformation and calculated care beyond the Global North: Comparing refugee discourses in Australia and India
This article explores what "care" looks like in the specific context of Muslim refugees and asylum seekers within the dominant discourse of humanitarianism. India and Australia are chosen for this comparative analysis because our aim is to emphasise multidimensional anti-Muslim alliances that are now in place in both contexts between the governments and official and unofficial media that influence humanitarian policies and practice. We argue that…
Ethnobotanical assessment of medicinal plants used in alpine regions of Uttarakhand, west Himalaya
Background: Himalaya, the youngest mountain biodiversity hotspot, embraces a variety of high-value medicinal flora used by the indigenous population to treat various health related ailments. However, this indigenous knowledge is gradually being lost owing to generation gaps and dependency on modern medicine. Thus, documentation of indigenous knowledge and evaluation of the use of plants assume greater significance to preserve the socio-economic a…
Taking ideology out: Finding the diasporic Hindu far-right down under
Common understandings of what the far-right is revolve around ideological commitments to nativism, anti-democratic sentiment and authoritarianism. However, the assumption that the far-right is best comprehended through ideological positions is undermined by extensive evidence that within far-right mobilisation ideological commitment is uneven, ambiguous, and sometimes absent. In this paper, we argue that this tension presents a fundamental obstac…
The Quiet Mainstreaming of Transnational Hindutva: Long Distance Nationalism and the Australian State
This article seeks to advance the scholarship on the Indian diasporic mobilisation of Hindutva by organisations linked to the Hindu nationalist movement. It does so by focusing not on typical accounts of civil society coordination, but rather on the case of Australia to explain how states that receive migrants actively facilitate the growth of the nationalist Sangh network’s influence outside of India. Focusing on these pull (rather than push) fa…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Hindutva (5 works) · Nationalism (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)