Can Starving People Go on a Hunger Strike? The Maoist Movement in India and the Global Revolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13043380 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John W Maerhofer (0000-0003-2464-0216, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 507-525 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Critical Thought (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-8312 • E-ISSN: 2159-8312 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21598282.2017.1357492 |
| OpenAlex | W2775223910 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article discusses the relationship between the Maoist Movement in India and the multiple forms of revolt that have taken place across the globe since 2011. While the revolts since the Arab Spring have gained some international attention, it is unclear why the Maoist Movement in India, a militant revolt aimed at achieving social justice and radical change in India, is rarely included in revolutionary discourse. In this sense, my overall objective in this essay is to reconnect the insurrectionary movement that is taking place in the forests of Central/Eastern India to the global insurgency through a comparative critique of resistance discourses, and as a way of understanding the dialectic between insurgent ideology and militant revolt in the contemporary period. Through a rigorous critique of the intensification of unequal development in India and the subsequent reaction by the Maoists, I hope to draw close attention to the conditions of all workers who have suffered as a result of gross inequalities intrinsic to globalized capital and who have taken to the streets in massive protests
Ancient history · Capital (architecture · Development economics · Dialectic · Globe · Ideology · Insurgency · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Social movement · Sociology · Asian Industrial and Economic Development · Gender Studies · History · Indian Economic and Social Development · Law · Political Economy and Marxism
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Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital
The ‘Red Surge’
Rebels from the mud houses
Race and a Transnational Reproductive Caste System
Is the Torch Passing? The Maoist Revolution in India
Counter-Revolution and Revolt
The purification hunt
Bonded Labour, Agrarian Changes and Capitalism
The Maoist Movement in India
The Agrarian Question in a Maoist Guerrilla Zone
The Agrarian Question in Neoliberal India
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |