Short description:

Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means to set to work today studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds.

Long description:

Subaltern Studies has marked both a major departure in South Asian studies and indexed broader shifts in the critical humanities and social sciences. This volume explores what it means today to set to work studies of subaltern subjects in our rapidly mutating social worlds.

This handbook spans diverse historical, ethnographic, and geopolitical spaces, drawing in the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias ? overlapping arenas in which the ?subaltern? continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. It also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose practices and processes of gender and race; indigeneity and indenture; age and sexuality; slavery and apartheid; the Adivasi and the Dalit; settler-colonialisms and nations; nature and environment; caste and tribe; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and dance; heteronormativity and queerness; state and governance; and politics and justice. In these ways, the study un-frames disciplinary boundaries and maps emergent terrains, exactly articulating pressing subjects and rethinking distinct subalternities.

This book is aimed at researchers, scholars, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the critical human sciences, especially history, anthropology, social theory, and cultural, gender, and literary studies.

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Subalterns and Histories  Formations-Itineraries-Genealogies  2. Subaltern Photography  3. Some Ironies and Anomalies in the History of Subaltern Studies  4. Adivasi Indigeneity: Reframing Subaltern Studies Today  5. ?But Who May Abide??: Reckoning with Ranajit Guha, 1923-2023  6. The Language Twist: Subaltern Studies and After  7. Subaltern, to the Right and to the Left of the Spectrum  8. The Subaltern as a Way of Reading: History Writing and the Colonial Oblivion in Latin America  9. Notes on Subalternity and Combative Decoloniality: In Dialogue with Dipesh Chakrabarty and Frantz Fanon  10. Subaltern Historiography and Post-Apartheid South Africa  11. ?Peeping Through a Chink?: Age, Evidence, and the Sexual Subaltern  12. Science and the Subaltern: A Hairy-Eared History of Nehruvian Science  13. Stretching Subalternity: The Figure of ?The Migrant? in the Postcolonial World Order  14. Property and Subaltern Pasts  Indigeneity-Servitude-Caste-Gender  15. Sovereignty, Anti-Extraction, and the Prose of Insurgency in Mexico  16. Resurgent Indigeneity and Discourses on History in Settler States  17. Subalterns in India?s Wildlife Conservation  18. Captive Transactions: Measures of Violence in the Northeastern Frontier of British India (1872-1919)  19. Ghosts of the Atlantic in South Asian Historiography  20. ?Ameliorating? the Enslaved: Connected Histories of the Abolition of Slavery  21. Can the Subaltern Sweat?  22. Intimations of Dissent: Sexuality, Caste, History  23. Degrees of Smell: Understanding and Resisting Caste  24. When the Subaltern Speaks Supremacy  25. Sex, Caste, and Race: Iterations of the ?Social Question? in Ambedkar?s Castes in India  26. Dalit Womanism-Humanism: Against Caste and Gender Hierarchies  27. Amid the Ruins: Savitribai Phule?s Poetry as Subaltern History  28. Anti-Caste Tamil Cinema Against the Darshanic Gaze  Subjects-Arrangements-Practices  29. Muslim Labourers and Subaltern Religion: Assertions of Faith and Community in Colonial India  30. Catholic Workers and the Mexican Revolution  31. Labouring Lives and Non-Work Moments: Rethinking Histories of Labour, Caste, and the Subaltern  32. Protean Justice: The Law, the Lawgiver, and the Subaltern Antinomies of Mughal and British India  33. Police Constables in Colonial India: From Subaltern Studies to Labour and Life History  34. Elites, Subjects, Citizens: Shifting Statuses of Zoroastrians  35. The Journey of a Word: Media as Name, Concept, Weapon  36. Productions of Injustice: Extra-Legal Credit in Northern India  37. Performance, ?Tradition?, Contestation: The Case of Bhojpuri Nautanki of Bihar  38. Bharatnatyam, Sacred-Eroticism, and Liminality  39. Race, Gender, Reproduction: Malinalli/Marina and Multiple Mestizaje  40. When and Where Do They Enter?: Black Women?s Travel Narratives and the Question of Agency  41. Afterword: The New International