Friday, June 19, 2026

Degrowth and Fanonian cautions

 Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra 

Problematizing decolonization: Some Fanonian cautions. 'A response to the papers on Fanon in this special edition'

F Dalal - Group Analysis, 2026
… I agree that some of the ways that Yoga or Buddhist Mindfulness have been
stripped of their spiritual connotations and commodified and instrumentalized as self-improvement
skills are problematic. But is this the case also with food and music? The danger is …

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O my God, MD Trump
… Under such a vast and at the same time, narrow definition of Hinduism, when this
paper speaks of radical Hinduism, it refers to groups that have been brought
together under the Hindutva agenda; an assemblies of Hindu organizations and …

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M un Nisa
… by Hindutva-aligned groups to influence public perception and trigger religious
conflict. … about intelligence reports suggesting that Hindutva activists were
disguising themselves as … To understand this behavior, it is essential to revisit the …

Faith and the people: Hindu nationalism and populist politics in India

S Avni - 2026
… It examines how populist politics incorporates the ideological content of Hindu
nationalism (Hindutva) and how populist strategies, in turn, sustain and
institutionalize the goals of Hindutva. The qualitative research design adopted is …

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T Engineers, VV Bharti
In the contemporary business environment, human capital is widely recognized as a
primary driver of organizational success and long-term sustainability. Unlike
traditional resources, employees contribute not only through operational execution …

Muslim Women in a Hindutva World: Gendered Violence in A Burning and The Lucky Ones

N Iyer - Muslim Women Speaking Persistently, 2026
… In this paper, I approach both these texts as post-Partition narratives in the
Hindutva era2 in India in which the train becomes the site of violence. In both texts,
the monolithic notion of Hindu identity propagated by Hindutva is also reliant on the …

[PDF] Slow Violence, Agrarian Distress and the Liberal Democratic State in Marathwada, India

J Campbell - 2026
Situated within the field of political ecology, this thesis explores the relationship
between liberal democratic governance and the phenomenon of agrarian distress
and farmer suicide in Marathwada, India. Agrarian distress is the result of multiple …

[PDF] The Challenge of Community and Dialogue in a Rational Education

A Madan - Vantage: Journal of Thematic Analysis, 2026
The growth of formal organizations and technical reason over the last few centuries
has given schools and academic institutions their contemporary form. They operate,
in principle, as technically rational institutions, with explicit goals and processes …

Hill Station Tourism, Ramayana Trail and Challenges for Upland Urbanization in Central Sri Lanka

KT Silva, SH Arachchi, A Goreau-Ponceaud - Journal of South Asian Development, 2026
… We must also recognize that the Hindutva ideology in India and the Sinhala
Buddhist ideology in Sri Lanka are dominant ideologies sustaining diverse
Ramayana ontologies that shape developments in the South Asian region …

[PDF] Emotional Atyachar (Trauma): Professional Identity Performance and Emotional Labour of Fact-checkers in India

A Goswami, A Soronen, K Nikunen - Communication & Society, 2026
This study explores the emotional labour incurred by Indian fact-checkers as part of
maintaining their professional identity online. It demonstrates the connection
between the theories of professional identity performance and emotional labour …

[PDF] A Better World Can Exist: Hindu Folklores and the Decolonial Imaginaries of a Degrowth Society.

V Puspanathan - 2026
Degrowth has emerged as a critical framework challenging the dominant
assumption that continuous economic growth is necessary for human progress and
well-being. While degrowth offers important critiques of capitalist accumulation …

[PDF] Between Vernacular and English: Language Debates in India _

K Sunil
in post-colonial India is a highly contradictory entity, on the one hand being ‘a legacy
of British colonialism', and on the other being one of the major means of social
mobility, empowerment, and globalization. Colonial structures are perpetuated in …

The Making of an Indian Company Town: Manufactured Cosmopolitanism, Communal Violence, and Urban Memory in Jamshedpur, India

I Dubey - Critical Asian Studies, 2026
In 1907, after months of prospecting across India, the little-known and remote hamlet
of Sakchi in Singhbhum was chosen by Jamshetji Nusserwanji Tata (1839-1904),
founder of the Tata Group, as the location for India’s first indigenously owned iron …

From World City Dreams to Everyday Struggles: Reading Contemporary Bengaluru

AR Sharma - 2026
In her book The Promise of the Metropolis (2008), Janaki Nair traces Bengaluru’s
transformation into a twentieth-century Information Technology (IT) hub. The city, she
argues, stands at the cusp of modernity as the “nondescript small town” has …

[HTML] Global Inequality, the Climate Emergency and the Global Justice Report

Z Baber
As the world relentlessly careens from one crisis to another–the forever wars, record
breaking temperatures, cyclones, floods, droughts, fires, pandemics etc.–fuelled by
the climate emergency, ongoing attempts to make critical sense of it all have …

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