Meera Ashar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 163629 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Meera Ashar |
| PRENOMES | Meera |
| SOBRENOME | Ashar |
| ASSINATURA | ASHAR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0221-2085 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 6 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Thriving on the Margins of History
A diversity of discursive formations in the vernacular flourish on the margins of history, and even outside it. To better understand these formations, particularly in postcolonial societies such as India, I argue that it is important to eschew the sole use of the lens of veracity. I explore alternative lenses through which to more fruitfully examine historical narratives in the vernacular: the contrast between the "historical past" and the "pract…
Public
Show or Tell? Instruction and Representation in Govardhanram'sSaraswatichandra
Govardhanram Tripathi wrote the four-volume novelSaraswatichandraas an 'instruction manual' for a people facing fundamental social and political change during colonial rule. This article examines a shift in the conception of instruction as the text progressed through its instalments-from a notion of learning as a process of deliberation about, and experimentation with, imitable actions, to the idea of education through the representation of actio…
Decolonizing what? Categories, concepts and the enduring 'not yet
What does it mean to decolonize? At one level, decolonization refers to the attainment of political sovereignty. The transfer of power from colonial to regional and indigenous authorities, however, also involves a handover of political forms and institutions. This process leaves behind some of the narratives that accompany coloniality, even if refashioned versions of these. This enduring coloniality resides within and proliferates through the cat…
Delhi At Eleven
Meera AsharAustralian National University© 2015, Meera Ashar
Taking a Step Back
Meera Ashar focuses on the relationship between the terms of political theorization and the concepts that they might embody. Contemporary Indian political language is understood alternately as an indigenous discourse rendered in another language, as a literal translation or direct implantation of the Western political discourse, or as a derivative discourse. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as me…
Decolonizing what? Categories, concepts and the enduring 'not yet
What does it mean to decolonize? At one level, decolonization refers to the attainment of political sovereignty. The transfer of power from colonial to regional and indigenous authorities, however, also involves a handover of political forms and institutions. This process leaves behind some of the narratives that accompany coloniality, even if refashioned versions of these. This enduring coloniality resides within and proliferates through the cat…
Taking a Step Back
Meera Ashar focuses on the relationship between the terms of political theorization and the concepts that they might embody. Contemporary Indian political language is understood alternately as an indigenous discourse rendered in another language, as a literal translation or direct implantation of the Western political discourse, or as a derivative discourse. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as me…
Taking a Step Back
Meera Ashar focuses on the relationship between the terms of political theorization and the concepts that they might embody. Contemporary Indian political language is understood alternately as an indigenous discourse rendered in another language, as a literal translation or direct implantation of the Western political discourse, or as a derivative discourse. The Indian nation-state, democracy and citizenry, which the nationalists recognized as me…
Decolonizing what? Categories, concepts and the enduring 'not yet
What does it mean to decolonize? At one level, decolonization refers to the attainment of political sovereignty. The transfer of power from colonial to regional and indigenous authorities, however, also involves a handover of political forms and institutions. This process leaves behind some of the narratives that accompany coloniality, even if refashioned versions of these. This enduring coloniality resides within and proliferates through the cat…
Delhi At Eleven
Meera AsharAustralian National University© 2015, Meera Ashar
Show or Tell? Instruction and Representation in Govardhanram'sSaraswatichandra
Govardhanram Tripathi wrote the four-volume novelSaraswatichandraas an 'instruction manual' for a people facing fundamental social and political change during colonial rule. This article examines a shift in the conception of instruction as the text progressed through its instalments-from a notion of learning as a process of deliberation about, and experimentation with, imitable actions, to the idea of education through the representation of actio…
Public
Thriving on the Margins of History
A diversity of discursive formations in the vernacular flourish on the margins of history, and even outside it. To better understand these formations, particularly in postcolonial societies such as India, I argue that it is important to eschew the sole use of the lens of veracity. I explore alternative lenses through which to more fruitfully examine historical narratives in the vernacular: the contrast between the "historical past" and the "pract…
Political science (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 obras) · Archaeology (2 obras) · Art (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras)