Shalini Randeria
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 123808 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shalini Randeria |
| PRENOMES | Shalini |
| SOBRENOME | Randeria |
| ASSINATURA | RANDERIA S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1330-5025 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 243 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Locating the State
If anthropology once concerned itself with politics in stateless societies outside Euro-America over and against prevailing Euro-American political theory, today anthropologists see the state at work everywhere. Anthropologists have sought to trouble spatial metaphors of state power that assumed, among other things, its centralization and the unitary character of sovereignty. Locating the state through an attendant question of region, we explore …
Anthropology Now and Next
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges f…
Policy Worlds
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, c…
Dissociation and Appropriation
Para além da sociologia e da antropologia sociocultural
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Unfreezing unspent social special-purpose funds for the Covid-19 crisis
The Migrant Position
The lives and labour of migrants are increasingly shaped by political precarity and rightlessness in an unevenly globalized world. We argue that 'undesirableness' rather than mobility is constitutive of the 'migrant' position. Besides underscoring the asymmetrical power relations that define the position of the 'migrant' vis-à-vis the receiving state and society, an optic of 'undesirableness' also foregrounds the governmental techniques deployed …
Keeping seeds in our hands
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the JPS Special Forum on Seed Activism, we explore the surge of mobilizations the world over in response to processes of seed enclosures and loss of agrobiodiversity. A historical overview of the evolution of seed activism over the past three decades traces a paradigm shift from farm…
Taking Monsanto to court
This article analyzes legal disputes involving Monsanto's patents and royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in two important GM-crop producing countries. It argues that Monsanto implemented private royalty collection systems adapted to the specificities of crops and agrarian conditions in Brazil and India. The corporation thus enjoyed in practice the same extraordinary degree of IP rights in these countries as in the Uni…
Social Science at the Crossroads
The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do efforts to map the social and political world interact with that world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we say about relationships between scient…
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
Locations and locutions
This chapter focuses on a small slice of the work done in universities and research institutions in India in order to understand how national public preoccupations continue to structure anthropological/sociological knowledge production and its reception within a pluri-centric academic world. It shows that there are very strong ties between Indian scholars and their counterparts in the diasporic communities from South Asia. The reception of schola…
Colonial Complicities and Hidden Imperial Entanglements
Colonial Complicities and Imperial Entanglements
Europe is literally a product of the Third World, wrote Frantz Fanon provocatively in The Wretched of the Earth.1 This brilliant insight into the mutually constitutive relationship between colonizing and colonized societies formulates a key theme of postcolonial scholarship avant la lettre. Of what possible relevance, however, could postcolonial theories be for an understanding of the past or present of Switzerland, a landlocked country in the he…
Social sciences and public debates
This article focuses on a small slice of scholarly work in India (on democracy and dispossession, on myth, history and historiography) in order to understand how national public preoccupations continue to structure anthropological/sociological knowledge production and its reception within a pluri-centric academic world. We argue that though loci of enunciation affect processes of both knowledge production and consumption, global flows of ideas a…
Politics of the Urban Poor
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work, the authors of this special issue on the politics of the urban poor examine how regional events as well as scholarly traditions in these places have influenced the way the categories of the urban poor and of politics have emerged in both scholarly and public discourse. As the discussions that follow make clear, the relation between urban processes and city forms is a volatile one, and this volatility in tu…
Anthropology Now and Next
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges f…
Anthropology Now and Next
Democratic Strivings, Social Sciences, and Public Debates
Critical Mobilities
The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people, information). This book engages critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of fl…
Bibliographie / Bibliography
Erstellen und Weitergeben von Kopien dieses PDFs ist nicht zulssig
Verflochtene Schweiz
Historiographie und Anthropologie. Zur Kritik hegemonialer Wissensproduktion bei Talal Asad, Bernard S. Cohn und der Subaltern Studies Group
Die Schlüsselwerke und Autoren, die in diesem Kapitel über den Beitrag der Anthropologie zur postkolonialen Theorie behandelt werden, befassen sich entweder mit Fragen über die koloniale Bedingtheit der Anthropologie (Asad), oder sie wenden eine anthropologische Perspektive auf historische Untersuchungsgegenstände an (Cohn, Subaltern Studies). Ihnen gemeinsam ist die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der – bis dahin nicht oder unzulänglich behande…
Comment l'État et la Banque mondiale gèrent les déplacements de populations à Mumbai
The new architecture of governance in countries that have borrowed from the IMF and the World Bank entails, on the one hand, an increasing transnationalisation of the state and, on the other, the involvement of supranational as well as subnational non-state actors in the making and implementation of soft law and policy. Among its consequences are a diffusion of power, a dilution of accountability and legal uncertainty as a result of a plurality o…
Kulturimperialismus
Politics of the Urban Poor
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work, the authors of this special issue on the politics of the urban poor examine how regional events as well as scholarly traditions in these places have influenced the way the categories of the urban poor and of politics have emerged in both scholarly and public discourse. As the discussions that follow make clear, the relation between urban processes and city forms is a volatile one, and this volatility in tu…
The State of Globalization
The successful global diffusion of formal democracy has gone hand in hand with the hollowing out of its substance. Ever more realms of domestic public policy are removed from the purview of national legislative deliberation and insulated from popular scrutiny. Rhetoric of accountability has accompanied the increasing unaccountability of international financial and trade organizations, transnational corporations as well as of states and NGOs. The …
Keeping seeds in our hands
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of what may be termed as seed activism. In this opening paper of the JPS Special Forum on Seed Activism, we explore the surge of mobilizations the world over in response to processes of seed enclosures and loss of agrobiodiversity. A historical overview of the evolution of seed activism over the past three decades traces a paradigm shift from farm…
Global Designs and Local Lifeworlds
The new language and practices of globalized environmental governance have a complex colonial genealogy. This case study delineates postcolonial continuities and shifts in regulatory, documentary and enforcement practices of biodiversity conservation and wildlife protection in India. Based on ethnographic material from the Gir forest, it analyses the twin processes of nature-making and state-building from the social and territorial margins of the…
Cunning States and Unaccountable International Institutions
The paper analyses the new architecture of global governance which is characterised by unaccountable international institutions and scattered sovereignties. It examines the dilemmas of civil society actors (social movements and NGOs) involved in protecting the rights of local communities through strategic issue-based alliances with the state or the World Bank, whose legitimacy they question in other contexts. The cunning state remains a central a…
Glocalization of Law
This article delineates trajectories of the glocalization of law and maps the changing contours of legal pluralism using empirical material on World Bank financed infrastructure and biodiversity projects in India. The role of international institutions, social movements and NGOs, which challenge the monopoly of the state over the production of law and the definition of the common good, is analysed with reference to conflicts over privatization of…
De-politicization of Democracy and Judicialization of Politics
Democratic Strivings, Social Sciences, and Public Debates
Taking Monsanto to court
This article analyzes legal disputes involving Monsanto's patents and royalties for Roundup Ready soybeans, Bt cotton and Bt eggplant in two important GM-crop producing countries. It argues that Monsanto implemented private royalty collection systems adapted to the specificities of crops and agrarian conditions in Brazil and India. The corporation thus enjoyed in practice the same extraordinary degree of IP rights in these countries as in the Uni…
Rechtspluralismus und überlappende Souveränitäten
SozW Soziale Welt , page 229 - 258
Carrion and corpses
Death is the most potent of all the sources of impurity and inauspiciousness in the life of a Hindu. This paper explores the different discourses on the nature of untouchability in Gujarat in order to delineate the relationship between the collective, permanent pollution of the lowest castes in the caste hierarchy, the so-called 'Untouchables', and their occupational specialization involving the disposal of dead animals and human corpses. It also…
The Migrant Position
The lives and labour of migrants are increasingly shaped by political precarity and rightlessness in an unevenly globalized world. We argue that 'undesirableness' rather than mobility is constitutive of the 'migrant' position. Besides underscoring the asymmetrical power relations that define the position of the 'migrant' vis-à-vis the receiving state and society, an optic of 'undesirableness' also foregrounds the governmental techniques deployed …
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
Locating the State
If anthropology once concerned itself with politics in stateless societies outside Euro-America over and against prevailing Euro-American political theory, today anthropologists see the state at work everywhere. Anthropologists have sought to trouble spatial metaphors of state power that assumed, among other things, its centralization and the unitary character of sovereignty. Locating the state through an attendant question of region, we explore …
Unfreezing unspent social special-purpose funds for the Covid-19 crisis
Social sciences and public debates
This article focuses on a small slice of scholarly work in India (on democracy and dispossession, on myth, history and historiography) in order to understand how national public preoccupations continue to structure anthropological/sociological knowledge production and its reception within a pluri-centric academic world. We argue that though loci of enunciation affect processes of both knowledge production and consumption, global flows of ideas a…
Carrion and corpses
Death is the most potent of all the sources of impurity and inauspiciousness in the life of a Hindu. This paper explores the different discourses on the nature of untouchability in Gujarat in order to delineate the relationship between the collective, permanent pollution of the lowest castes in the caste hierarchy, the so-called 'Untouchables', and their occupational specialization involving the disposal of dead animals and human corpses. It also…
Die sozio-ökonomische Einbettung reproduktiver Rechte
Cunning States and Unaccountable International Institutions
The paper analyses the new architecture of global governance which is characterised by unaccountable international institutions and scattered sovereignties. It examines the dilemmas of civil society actors (social movements and NGOs) involved in protecting the rights of local communities through strategic issue-based alliances with the state or the World Bank, whose legitimacy they question in other contexts. The cunning state remains a central a…
Glocalization of Law
This article delineates trajectories of the glocalization of law and maps the changing contours of legal pluralism using empirical material on World Bank financed infrastructure and biodiversity projects in India. The role of international institutions, social movements and NGOs, which challenge the monopoly of the state over the production of law and the definition of the common good, is analysed with reference to conflicts over privatization of…
Malthus contra Condorcet
Rechtspluralismus und überlappende Souveränitäten
SozW Soziale Welt , page 229 - 258
Global Designs and Local Lifeworlds
The new language and practices of globalized environmental governance have a complex colonial genealogy. This case study delineates postcolonial continuities and shifts in regulatory, documentary and enforcement practices of biodiversity conservation and wildlife protection in India. Based on ethnographic material from the Gir forest, it analyses the twin processes of nature-making and state-building from the social and territorial margins of the…
De-politicization of Democracy and Judicialization of Politics
The State of Globalization
The successful global diffusion of formal democracy has gone hand in hand with the hollowing out of its substance. Ever more realms of domestic public policy are removed from the purview of national legislative deliberation and insulated from popular scrutiny. Rhetoric of accountability has accompanied the increasing unaccountability of international financial and trade organizations, transnational corporations as well as of states and NGOs. The …
Kulturimperialismus
Verflochtene Schweiz
Historiographie und Anthropologie. Zur Kritik hegemonialer Wissensproduktion bei Talal Asad, Bernard S. Cohn und der Subaltern Studies Group
Die Schlüsselwerke und Autoren, die in diesem Kapitel über den Beitrag der Anthropologie zur postkolonialen Theorie behandelt werden, befassen sich entweder mit Fragen über die koloniale Bedingtheit der Anthropologie (Asad), oder sie wenden eine anthropologische Perspektive auf historische Untersuchungsgegenstände an (Cohn, Subaltern Studies). Ihnen gemeinsam ist die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der – bis dahin nicht oder unzulänglich behande…
Comment l'État et la Banque mondiale gèrent les déplacements de populations à Mumbai
The new architecture of governance in countries that have borrowed from the IMF and the World Bank entails, on the one hand, an increasing transnationalisation of the state and, on the other, the involvement of supranational as well as subnational non-state actors in the making and implementation of soft law and policy. Among its consequences are a diffusion of power, a dilution of accountability and legal uncertainty as a result of a plurality o…
Critical Mobilities
The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as they are shaped by a series of mobile entities (capital, people, information). This book engages critically with many of the claims and challenges of mobility studies by providing empirically rich reports of mobilities and their limitations. Instead of assuming a seamless world of fl…
Bibliographie / Bibliography
Erstellen und Weitergeben von Kopien dieses PDFs ist nicht zulssig
Anthropology Now and Next
The scholarship of Ulf Hannerz is characterized by its extraordinary breadth and visionary nature. He has contributed to the understanding of urban life and transnational networks, and the role of media, paradoxes of identity and new forms of community, suggesting to see culture in terms of flows rather than as bounded entities. Contributions honor Hannerz’ legacy by addressing theoretical, epistemological, ethical and methodological challenges f…
Anthropology Now and Next
Democratic Strivings, Social Sciences, and Public Debates
Colonial Complicities and Hidden Imperial Entanglements
Colonial Complicities and Imperial Entanglements
Europe is literally a product of the Third World, wrote Frantz Fanon provocatively in The Wretched of the Earth.1 This brilliant insight into the mutually constitutive relationship between colonizing and colonized societies formulates a key theme of postcolonial scholarship avant la lettre. Of what possible relevance, however, could postcolonial theories be for an understanding of the past or present of Switzerland, a landlocked country in the he…
Social sciences and public debates
This article focuses on a small slice of scholarly work in India (on democracy and dispossession, on myth, history and historiography) in order to understand how national public preoccupations continue to structure anthropological/sociological knowledge production and its reception within a pluri-centric academic world. We argue that though loci of enunciation affect processes of both knowledge production and consumption, global flows of ideas a…
Politics of the Urban Poor
Based on longitudinal ethnographic work, the authors of this special issue on the politics of the urban poor examine how regional events as well as scholarly traditions in these places have influenced the way the categories of the urban poor and of politics have emerged in both scholarly and public discourse. As the discussions that follow make clear, the relation between urban processes and city forms is a volatile one, and this volatility in tu…
Locations and locutions
This chapter focuses on a small slice of the work done in universities and research institutions in India in order to understand how national public preoccupations continue to structure anthropological/sociological knowledge production and its reception within a pluri-centric academic world. It shows that there are very strong ties between Indian scholars and their counterparts in the diasporic communities from South Asia. The reception of schola…
Social Science at the Crossroads
The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do efforts to map the social and political world interact with that world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we say about relationships between scient…
JPS special forum on seed activism
Semantic innovations like seed commons, peasant seeds and seed sovereignty are a powerful expression of the rise of what may be termed as seed activism. Indeed, over the past two decades, there has
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