Browsing Sosialantropologisk institutt by Author "Nielsen, Kenneth Bo"
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Bennike, Rune Bolding; Rasmussen, Mattias Borg; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Aspirations bring different versions of the future into the present. This introductory essay asks what we can learn by attending to the myriad ways in which rural subjects and collectivities articulate and institutionalise ...
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Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are ...
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Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding ...
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Sen, Moumita; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article proposes the idea of ‘political deification’ as a useful analytical concept to theorize the efficacy of religious icons, symbols, and objects in the political field of social movements and electoral politics ...
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Hindu Nationalist Statecraft, Dog-whistle Legislation and the Vigilante State in Contemporary India Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The ideology and politics of Hindu nationalism has always been predicated on an antagonistic discursive construction of ‘dangerous others,’ notably Muslims but also Christians. This construct has served to define India as ...
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Oskarsson, Patrik; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala; Roy, Brototi (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The advance of renewable energy around the world has kindled hopes that coal-based energy is on the way out. Recent data, however, make it clear that growing coal consumption in India coupled with its continued use in China ...
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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)What do the protests against the farm laws of the Modi regime tell us about the trajectory of neoliberalisation in India? In this article, we address this question through a comparative analysis of the farm law protests ...
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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Bedi, Heather P.; Da Silva, Solano Jose Savio (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the state of Goa, we view planning processes ...
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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)What role does the Islamophobic theory of “love jihad” play in the politics of Hindu nationalist statecraft—the legal codification of Hindu nationalist ideology—in India today? In this article, we address this question ...
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Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article uses the concepts of orchestration and spectacle to analyse the work of leaders of an anti-dispossession movement in rural West Bengal. It examines what being a movement leader entails and argues for the ...
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Sareen, Siddharth; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Oskarsson, Patrik; Remme, Devyn Helen Avhild (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)How a country responds to a rupture such as the COVID-19 pandemic can be revelatory of its governance. Governance entails not only the exercise but also the constitution of authority. The pandemic response thus presents a ...