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In the Ruins of Political Society – A Response to Partha Chatterjee

Partha Chatterjee’s post, following on Shuddha’s Hazare Khwahishein… is something of an eye-opener for me. I will not enter into a debate with him on his reading of Shuddha’s post as Shuddha and I hav… more →

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Face Palm Moments: Of Harems, Butlers, and Politics

photonassault wrote 1 week ago: Consider this my first post regarding my face palm moments. Why I decided to do posts about it is … more →

Tags: face palm moments, face palm moments, Haven, Harem, Hayate the Combat Butler, AXN, nancy binay, Sonny Angara, Gloc-9

Hunger as politics

Anelise H. Shrout wrote 1 month ago: I’m just back from ACIS’s 2013 meeting, where, inevitably, famine and hunger strikes wer … more →

Tags: Research-2, Philanthropy, Humanitarianism

California's Admission Day: A "Decline of Popular Politics"?

Calhistorian wrote 8 months ago: Citizenship & Civil Religion at the Dawn of the Progressive Era: San Francisco Call image of the … more →

Tags: Western Regional Identity, Historical Musing, gilded empire, Admission Day, Native Sons of the Golden West

Popular politics, populism and the leaders. New e-book from CMCS

mediaresearch wrote 1 year ago: Now available a new short essay in e-book format, published by the Centre for Media and Communicatio … more →

Tags: political studies, Political communication, CMCs, Emiliana De Blasio, Italy, Matthew Hibberd, UK, Michele Sorice, University of Stirling

Three thoughts on #Occupy — 7 comments

piercepenniless wrote 1 year ago: At a time when a banner reading Katalipsi! (Occupied!) flies from the Greek Finance ministry, here a … more →

Tags: occupy, occupations, Résistance

In the Ruins of Political Society – A Response to Partha Chatterjee — 28 comments

Aditya Nigam wrote 1 year ago: Partha Chatterjee’s post, following on Shuddha’s Hazare Khwahishein… is something of an eye-opener f … more →

Tags: bad ideas, Debates, Government, Movements, Politics, Theory, Anna Hazare, Partha Chatterjee, political society

If only there were no people, democracy would be fine... — 85 comments

Nivedita Menon wrote 1 year ago: This post has been jointly written by Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam At Ramlila Maidan We went to R … more →

Tags: Centre watch, Debates, Law, Left watch, Movements, Anna Hazare, Anti-corruption movement, democracy

Tangential (and brief) thoughts on the recent Presidential Election

block2190 wrote 4 years ago: Barack Obama is the first African-American Presential electee.  Literally.   I mean, his father is f … more →

Tags: obama

The May 2008 Pogroms: xenophobia, evictions, liberalism, and democratic grassroots militancy in South Africa

Keep on Keeping On wrote 4 years ago: Sanhati, 27 June 2008 by Richard Pithouse, Durban. 16 June 2008 The battle for land in Harry Gwala s … more →

Tags: Repression, Résistance, land, Analysis, xenophobia, Liberalism

The Pursuit of Popular Opinion: Romney or Obama?

inourwordsblog wrote 10 months ago: by: Jenna Monk  Life, liberty and the pursuit of popular opinion tend to be the driving force of pre … more →

Tags: Politics, Life, media, Mitt Romney, Liberal, Political, Barack Obama, Jenna Monk, election


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