Veena DasThinkers

Agency is not to be searched for in great and transgressive moments of history, it is in the everyday scripts of resistance that it is thought to be located.

Caste is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

The Colonial riot narrative is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Culture is a matter of shared ways of life as well as of bequeathing and inheriting capabilities and habits as members of society.

Descent of violence into the realm of the ordinary is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

The Double life of culture is the potential of culture to give radical recognition to the humanity of its subjects as well as its potential to keep the individual within such tightly defined bounds that the capacity to experiment with selfhood.

The Force of the local is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Healing is a matter, on the one hand, of endurance (I.C. Recognizing how pain enduringly writes a person's relationships and how to remain open to an adjacent self) and on the other the capacity to establish a particular relationship to death (i.e. Rejecting the trauma of, say, dying in a crowd in favor of the acceptance of the possibility of a normal death).

Living death is on our radar. Try again later or consider contributing!

Otherness is within postmodern theory, recognized without predetermined criteria for the evaluation of divergent claims.