Gunjan Wadhwa
Biographic Data
| ID | 846599 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gunjan Wadhwa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gunjan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wadhwa |
| SIGNATURE | WADHWA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1821-1415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities
The official discourse in India constitutes the indigenous Adivasis as Indian nationals in need of education and protection. In this paper, I emphasise the dominance of a temporally framed view of development that singularly focuses on progress and change in the discursive production of Adivasi identities in a local village community. I signal the centrality of education within this view, as integral to modernisation discourse and crucial in the …
Ethics of Youth Work Practice in the Twenty-First Century
Blurring belongings
This paper is based on empirical research on the discursive production and marginalisation of Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence and civil unrest in India. We examine the historical naming of the Adivasis in national and local discourses and the ways it is circumscribed contemporarily by the regulative Indian state and its efforts to document all citizens. We highlight systematic exclusions related to the location, livelihood an…
Open Access
This paper draws on recent empirical research into indigenous Adivasi identities in India to explore Adivasi participation and demands for community rights within local structures of governance in a village context. I examine the multiple articulations of rights by the Adivasis that they consider crucial for community development in the backdrop of protracted violence and conflict. This paper engages with the local context of civil unrest by draw…
(Un)Doing rights
This paper draws on recent empirical research into indigenous Adivasi identities in India to explore Adivasi participation and demands for community rights within local structures of governance in a village context. I examine the multiple articulations of rights by the Adivasis that they consider crucial for community development in the backdrop of protracted violence and conflict. This paper engages with the local context of civil unrest by draw…
(Un)Doing rights
This paper draws on recent empirical research into indigenous Adivasi identities in India to explore Adivasi participation and demands for community rights within local structures of governance in a village context. I examine the multiple articulations of rights by the Adivasis that they consider crucial for community development in the backdrop of protracted violence and conflict. This paper engages with the local context of civil unrest by draw…
Blurring belongings
This paper is based on empirical research on the discursive production and marginalisation of Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence and civil unrest in India. We examine the historical naming of the Adivasis in national and local discourses and the ways it is circumscribed contemporarily by the regulative Indian state and its efforts to document all citizens. We highlight systematic exclusions related to the location, livelihood an…
(Un)Doing rights
This paper draws on recent empirical research into indigenous Adivasi identities in India to explore Adivasi participation and demands for community rights within local structures of governance in a village context. I examine the multiple articulations of rights by the Adivasis that they consider crucial for community development in the backdrop of protracted violence and conflict. This paper engages with the local context of civil unrest by draw…
Open Access
This paper draws on recent empirical research into indigenous Adivasi identities in India to explore Adivasi participation and demands for community rights within local structures of governance in a village context. I examine the multiple articulations of rights by the Adivasis that they consider crucial for community development in the backdrop of protracted violence and conflict. This paper engages with the local context of civil unrest by draw…
Ethics of Youth Work Practice in the Twenty-First Century
Blurring belongings
This paper is based on empirical research on the discursive production and marginalisation of Adivasi identities in an area of protracted violence and civil unrest in India. We examine the historical naming of the Adivasis in national and local discourses and the ways it is circumscribed contemporarily by the regulative Indian state and its efforts to document all citizens. We highlight systematic exclusions related to the location, livelihood an…
Negotiating difference, (un)contesting temporalities
The official discourse in India constitutes the indigenous Adivasis as Indian nationals in need of education and protection. In this paper, I emphasise the dominance of a temporally framed view of development that singularly focuses on progress and change in the discursive production of Adivasi identities in a local village community. I signal the centrality of education within this view, as integral to modernisation discourse and crucial in the …
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Law (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Civil society (2 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)