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Scripting Defiance
Four Sociological Vignettes ARI SITAS, SUMANGALA DAMODARAN, F O R SA L E T H R O U G H O U T T H E WO R L D, E XC LU D I N G S O U T H A S I A
AMRITA PANDE, WIEBKE KEIM, AND
Gujarat, Cradle and Harbinger of Identity Politics
India’s Injurious Frame of Communalism JAN BREMAN AND GHANSHYAM SHAH
NICOS TRIMIKLINIOTIS
This book attempts to uncover scripts through which notions of deviance as well as acts of defiance unravel. It considers the narratives of defiance that endure through subaltern people’s cultural formations despite and in response to dominant ideas and ideologies. Such scripts will help sociology reconstitute itself away from its original mandate: to help the maintenance of social order. The chapters look at specific figures of discontent: the worker, the woman, the student, the artist, the migrant and refugee, the prisoner, and, as a counter-voice, the movements of reaction to their discontent. ARI SITAS,
a South African writer and a sociologist, teaches
at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. SUMANGALA DAMODARAN , an economist and a musician, teaches at
Ambedkar University Delhi. AMRITA PANDE , a sociologist and feminist ethnographer, teaches at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. WIEBKE KEIM is a sociologist at
Gujarat is one of the leading industrially developed states of the Indian Union. It has also been seen as a laboratory of Hindutva in contemporary Indian politics, having been ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for more than twenty-five years. This book is a collection of essays written over the last five decades to document the communal politics that have flourished in the region. It features chapters on the historical aspects of communalism and the growth of the BJP in Gujarat, particularly focusing on its electoral politics. JAN BREMAN
is professor emeritus at the Amsterdam Insti-
tute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, and honorary fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. GHANSHYAM SHAH
is retired professor, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, and former director of the Centre for Social Studies, Surat.
CRNS in Strasbourg, France. NICOS TRIMIKLINIOTIS is a sociologist and lawyer associated with the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
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