I showcase here textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The repository gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics. I have a growing interest in text analysis and the study of populist speeches. Content is open access.
§︎ Research foci
• Youth activism as political self-fashioning
• Political archives and the pamphleteers
• Populist style as political representation
• Political intermediaries, elites and subalterns
• Ethnography of political ambition in India
• Text analysis, speeches and lifeworlds
§︎ Contents
• Publications: articles · preprints · op-eds
• Collaborations: ceri · iiit-d · icas-mp
• Datasets: parcha · dips
• Curation: memories of change
• Syllabi: sciences po · king's · cemis
• Code: r · python
• Photography: fieldword photos
• E-library: nonfiction
In a paradoxical turn of events, the brutal invasion of the democratic state of Ukraine by Russia has, despite its many international condemnations, fostered a certain convergence of views in India between the government, opposition, and various sections of the intelligentsia.
The management of the coronavirus spread is not only a global rupture, it also signals the consolidation of the personalistic and intimate rapport between Modi and the people, which routinizes direct populist appeals through disfiguring democratic institutions.
Les 17emes elections generales de la Lok Sabha, la chambre basse du Parlement indien, se sont deroulees du 11 avril au 19 mai 2019 et ont abouti a un triomphe du parti nationaliste hindou…
Rohan D’Souza is currently a professor at the Kyoto University, Japan. A student activist during his college days, he was a General Secretary of JNUSU during his time at JNU.This material is exhibited…
Chepal Sherpa is a PhD scholar at JNU. He’s a member of the Bhagat Singh Student Organisation (BASO), a social justice student political organisation. He played an active role in the Justice for…
Geeta Kumari is currently an MPhil student at Jawaharal Nehru University and the President of the JNUSU, belonging to the All India Students’ Association (AISA), a student wing of the CPI-ML. She played…
In his Independence Day speeches, Narendra Modi has repeatedly used the words ‘sister’, ‘brother’ and ‘team’. The Prime Minister’s rhetorical technique is inherent in populism, a version of politics that crystallises when a leader…
A decade after its first round, the results of a survey on Indian youth attitudes, conducted jointly by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), prompted…
It was an eventful day in New Delhi as its sidewalks were filled with soldiers returning to the national capital after a victory in war with Pakistan. An early autumn cheered returning war heroes….
Les universités sont-elles toujours des lieux de contestations sociales et politiques ? Où sont les nouveaux foyers de protestations ? Quels sont les liens entre mouvements étudiants et partis politiques ? Lieux d’enseignement, les…