Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia

Blom, Amélie; Jaoul, Nicolas

doi:10.4000/samaj.1912

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“…I find it appropriate to apply AT to this analysis because it is concerned with alternative discourses in which dominant attitudes are challenged and renegotiated. Furthermore, it is more susceptible to textual analysis than other recent approaches which address the role of affect and emotions in collective identities and actions (see Blom and Jaoul 2008;Laclau 2005). Thus, AT focuses on interpersonal dimensions and offers a different perspective than CDA since the latter first and foremost underlines dominant representations or (re)productions of reality.…”

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confidence: 98%

Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies

Agustín

2012

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

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This article analyses the discursive construction of solidarity regarding immigration and integration in two European countries: Spain and Denmark. The study is based on interviews with representatives of 10 Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and it focuses on the affective and evaluative dimensions of language aimed at achieving alignment with civil society. The analytical approach combines Positive Discourse Analysis and Appraisal Theory, since these perspectives deal from a discourse analytic point of view with social change promoted by community and interpersonal relations. The discourses on solidarity are framed with reference to their respective national policies and debates. Therefore, different approaches exist between the two countries, albeit that all the NGOs aim to show new dimensions of integration in order to promote empathy towards immigrants. The goal of the NGOs is to contribute positively to social change and combating the current unfair situation. In the article it is argued that solidarity is built on affect and evaluative language at the national level, challenging in this way dominant policies on immigration. Furthermore, the findings show that a European discourse which would be able to solve contradictions related to the scope of human rights, politics of asylum and inclusion of irregular immigrants is still missing.

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Section: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 98%

Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies

Agustín

2012

Journal of Multicultural Discourses

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“…Reflecting on the centrality of moral values in structuring political mobilization (Blom and Jaoul 2008), Kristina Garalytė's article shows the emerging tensions between the Dalit movement's ethics and divergent individual moralities among the Scheduled Caste (SC) students at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She presents a case study of a debate between two SC students, in which they argue over the moral demand of the Dalit movement to "pay back to society," and over their differing social mobility imaginaries.…”

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Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia

Martelli¹,

Garalytė²

2019

samaj

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The wide resonance of the aphorism, "from shadows to the stars," closing the 2016 suicide letter of lower caste student activist Rohith Vemula 1 suggests broken hopes for South Asian educated youth. It points at the tragic obstacles to political change and social upliftment experienced by many young people, reflecting a characteristic desire for individual and collective change. The astounding protests that ensued from Rohith's suicide in India are now contributing to the revival of scholarly interest in the formation of political attitudes among educated youth, subjecting the question of students' socialization into politics to academic scrutiny. Indeed, amidst the uncertain social, economic and political promises of the South Asian educational bulge, 2 contemporary politics in university spaces in South Asia has the potential of shaping youth as idiosyncratic generations. They are characterized not only by their aspirations for a better future, but also by their ability to experience collectively, yet in their own way, major political and social events. 2Making sense of this research agenda revival is core to this special issue's enquiry, which runs through ethnographic and historical insights of eight contributions, covering youths' experiments with politics in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. This introduction questions the relevance of student politics as an object of inquiry by asking whether it truly constitutes a field that is autonomous from wider organized politics. By interpreting student politics as political becoming, this collection of articles indicates that everyday campus-based activism is a potent vehicle for the (re)production of contemporary South Asian polity. Interrogations over the meaning of this "(re)"sprinkle the issue, as authors debate how student politics, understood as an experimental learning process of politics within a given educational space (Loader, Vromen and Xenos 2014) both produces and reproduces political imaginaries, cultural tropes and social hierarchies. While party politics is not always central in the conduct Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in So...

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“…Through these increasingly wrenching debates, the capacity of hindutva politics to mobilize varying degrees of outrage also becomes progressively more evident. Blom and Jaoul hold the processes of framing “discontent into the vocabulary of moral outrage” to “constitute specific dimensions of South Asia’s political culture [of] public dissent” (Blom & Jaoul 2008, p. 8)—but such reactions are hardly limited to the subcontinent. Quite the contrary, outrage as a distinctive mode of expressing public dissent finds tremendous play in Indian/Hindu diasporic contests over representation, further elaborating the logics by which hindutva is invoked in local praxis, in this case within parameters set by state‐sponsored multiculturalism.…”

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Hindutva as Praxis

Reddy

2011

Religion Compass

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This article is the third and last in a series of three surveying research on Hindutva (Hindu nationalism or political Hinduism), focusing on praxis: processes by which hindutva is mobilized, operationalized, and made relatable to specific contexts. As hindutva’s influences expand to grassroots and diasporic contexts, mediated by discourses of rights, development, and cultures of multiculturalist ethnic assertions, hindutva becomes a mediating discourse in its own right. As such, it is sometimes a diffused logic and sometimes a clear point of reference, but always undeniably central to contemporary political practice at all levels. (The first essay in this series of three surveyed literature on seminal ideological articulations of hindutva, both historical and contemporary; the second examined prominent rhetorical constructions deployed to politically oppose hindutva).

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Introduction. The Moral and Affectual Dimension of Collective Action in South Asia

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies

Enhancing solidarity: Discourses of voluntary organizations on immigration and integration in multicultural societies

Generational Communities: Student Activism and the Politics of Becoming in South Asia

Hindutva as Praxis

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