symposium participants

  • THE PROBLEM
    Posed by Ankur Datta, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi

  • EXPLORING VICTIMHOOD
    Michael Rothberg, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

  • COLLAPSE OF THE REGIME OF VICTIMHOOD
    Gowhar Fazili, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ambedkar University Delhi

  • VICTIMHOOD AS AN ASSET?
    Sasanka Perera,
    Professor of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi; Editor, 'Society and Culture in South Asia'

  • THE DOMINANT VICTIM?
    Suryakant Waghmore, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  • VICTIMHOOD OF DALITS
    Anand Teltumbde, Senior Professor, Goa Institute of Management; and civil rights activist

  • INTERVIEW
    with Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and British Academy Global Professor, University College London

  • A MODEL MINORITY: JAINS AND THE MUSLIM 'PROBLEM'
    Manisha Sethi, Associate Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi

 

 

 

 

 

#727
March 2020


VICTIMHOOD
a symposium on its politics
in our times


March 2003
cover design by www.designosis.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • POLITICS OF THE POOR
    Tanweer Fazal, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hyderabad

  • TIME PE AYA KARO (PLEASE COME ON TIME!)
    Atreyee Sen, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen

  • MOBILITY, DIASPORA AND VICTIMHOOD
    Divya Vaid, Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi; Ankur Datta, Department of Sociology, South Asian University, Delhi

  • INTERROGATING VICTIMHOOD IN POPULIST TIMES
    Jagat Sohail, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Princeton

  • IN CONVERSATION
    Sanjay Kak, film maker, in conversation with Ankur Datta, South Asian University, Delhi

  • BOOKS
    Reviewed by Sarbani Sharma, Shakya Bose, Bhavneet Kaur, Harsh Sethi and Mahendra Prasad Singh

  • FURTHER READING
    A select and relevant bibliography compiled by Abir Lal Mazumder, Research Scholar, South Asian University, Delhi

  • COMMENT
    on Lutyens' Delhi by Shiv Visvanathan, Social Science nomad; Tuition Culture by Mithun Dey, Journalist, Bongaigaon, Assam; and The ASER Report by Shireen Vakil, Head - Policy and Advocacy, and Jyotsna, Programme Manager - Education, at the Tata Trusts, Delhi