Ajit Maan
Biographic Data
| ID | 8754326 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ajit Maan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ajit |
| FAMILY NAME | Maan |
| SIGNATURE | MAAN A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Counter-Terrorism
Understanding and harnessing the persuasive powers of narrative is central to U.S. and international counter-terrorism efforts. There is an urgent need to understand the narrative tactics of terrorist recruitment and an equal if not greater need to destabilize and exploit the weaknesses of those narratives. Maan makes a connection, unique to terrorism studies, between the mechanisms of colonizing narratives and psychological warfare aimed at the …
Narrative Authority
Postcolonial displacement and resulting cultural nomadism of second generation diasporia is often associated with loss, lack, exile. This author's position is that the cultural and linguistic margins that nomads inhabit are places of abundance and possibility. Establishing decolonized autobiographical authority necessitates the type of recognition, deconstruction, and re-association that second generation diasporic populations are uniquely positi…
Post-Colonial practices and narrative nomads
I begin by assuming three things. First, I assume that the institutions of colonization continue to function in a colonized culture even after the withdrawal of a physical colonial presence. Second, I assume a particular type of colonization phenomenon among indigenous elites which involves appropriating the Master Narrative. My third assumption is that human experience, cognition and identity are fundamentally narrative in nature. Having made si…
Narrative Authority
Postcolonial displacement and resulting cultural nomadism of second generation diasporia is often associated with loss, lack, exile. This author's position is that the cultural and linguistic margins that nomads inhabit are places of abundance and possibility. Establishing decolonized autobiographical authority necessitates the type of recognition, deconstruction, and re-association that second generation diasporic populations are uniquely positi…
Post-Colonial practices and narrative nomads
I begin by assuming three things. First, I assume that the institutions of colonization continue to function in a colonized culture even after the withdrawal of a physical colonial presence. Second, I assume a particular type of colonization phenomenon among indigenous elites which involves appropriating the Master Narrative. My third assumption is that human experience, cognition and identity are fundamentally narrative in nature. Having made si…
Post-Colonial practices and narrative nomads
I begin by assuming three things. First, I assume that the institutions of colonization continue to function in a colonized culture even after the withdrawal of a physical colonial presence. Second, I assume a particular type of colonization phenomenon among indigenous elites which involves appropriating the Master Narrative. My third assumption is that human experience, cognition and identity are fundamentally narrative in nature. Having made si…
Narrative Authority
Postcolonial displacement and resulting cultural nomadism of second generation diasporia is often associated with loss, lack, exile. This author's position is that the cultural and linguistic margins that nomads inhabit are places of abundance and possibility. Establishing decolonized autobiographical authority necessitates the type of recognition, deconstruction, and re-association that second generation diasporic populations are uniquely positi…
Counter-Terrorism
Understanding and harnessing the persuasive powers of narrative is central to U.S. and international counter-terrorism efforts. There is an urgent need to understand the narrative tactics of terrorist recruitment and an equal if not greater need to destabilize and exploit the weaknesses of those narratives. Maan makes a connection, unique to terrorism studies, between the mechanisms of colonizing narratives and psychological warfare aimed at the …
Aesthetics (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works)