In 'The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste', John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science, while historic…
"In The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science, while historici…
"In The Political Economy of the Spectacle and Postmodern Caste, John Asimakopoulos analyzes the political economy of the society of the spectacle, a philosophical concept developed by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. Using the analytical tools of social science, while historici…
Practicing Caste attempts a fundamental break from the tradition of caste studies, showing the limits of the historical, sociological, political, and moral categories through which it has usually been discussed. Engaging with the resources that phenomenology, structuralism, and …
5 Excluding themselves? Dalits converting to Buddhism6 Affirmative action and exclusion of the Muslim outcastes in West Bengal; 7 Marginalization and subversive religious rites: worship of Dharmathakur in West Bengal; Part III Ethnicity and politics of inclusion and exclusion in…
"This book provides a radical alternative to prevailing theories of caste which either build on indigenous rationalizations of the Brahman's supremacy or reduce hierarchy to material factors." "Drawing on a wide range of historical and ethnographic sources as well as four years'…
"This book provides a radical alternative to prevailing theories of caste which either build on indigenous rationalizations of the Brahman's supremacy or reduce hierarchy to material factors." "Drawing on a wide range of historical and ethnographic sources as well as four years'…
