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Choosing Precarity / During, Simon

During, Simon	Article
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This essay argues that global neo-liberalism has undercut the analytic power of the concept of the ‘subaltern’. It has instead produced a new category: the precariat. It makes this case first by examining Carlo Levi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, which helped define the subaltern, and then by showing that the aftermath of the 1968 revolutions slowly overturned the problematic installed by Levi and the Subaltern Studies group. It ends by offering an account of contemporary precarity via a reading of Amit Chaudhuri's novel, The Immortals.

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Philosophical anthropology ; Cultural Studies ; Deconstruction ; Precarity ; 1968 ; Post - Colonial Studies ;
Subaltern Studies ; Amit Chaudhuri

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ID: 103140

Imagining Uyghurstan: re-evaluating the birth of the modern Uyghur nation / Roberts, Sean R

Roberts, Sean R	Journal Article
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2009.

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The generally accepted narrative for the birth of the modern Uyghur nation suggests that a national ideal for the Uyghur people and the use of the 'Uyghur' ethnonym in the modern context were creations of Soviet bureaucrats in the 1920s that were later promoted among Uyghurs in Xinjiang by Chinese authorities with Soviet sympathies. This article challenges this view by drawing on Uyghur language sources, which demonstrate the agency of Uyghur intellectuals in the creation of the concept of a modern Uyghur nation during the early twentieth century. In examining the activities of Uyghur intellectuals in fostering a modern Uyghur national identity, the article emphasizes the role of anti-colonial sentiments in this movement, thus linking the Uyghur example to post-colonial scholarly arguments about the development of modern national consciousness among formerly colonized peoples around the world.

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Nationalism ; Colonialism ; Uyghur ; Modernism ; Identity ; Post - Colonial Studies ;
Taranchi ; Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

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Subaltern struggles and the global media in Koodankulam and Kashmir / Chemmencheri, Sudheesh Ramapurath

Chemmencheri, Sudheesh Ramapurath	Article
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This paper analyses the interactions between subaltern struggles and the global media, with special reference to the ways in which subalterns find opportunities in the media to make their voices heard. The paper argues that rather than losing their state of subalternity in the process of gaining a voice through media exposure, media representation reinforces the subaltern identity of the marginalised. Scrutinising the politics of representation in the media representation of the Koodankulam anti-nuclear protests and the Kashmir conflict in India, this essay draws on insights from post-colonial studies to explore new ways to read the work of the global media in their coverage of the subaltern.

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Kashmir ; Social Movements ; Subaltern ; Post - Colonial Studies ; Media Studies ; Koodankulam

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