The Routledge Handbook of Subalterns across History
About this ebook
This handbook spans diverse historical, ethnographic, and geopolitical spaces, drawing in the Antipodes and the Americas, Diasporas and Oceanic worlds, Africa and the Middle East, apart from Europe and many South Asias – overlapping arenas in which the “subaltern” continues to find distinct yet substantive articulations. It also seeks to meaningfully juxtapose practices and processes of gender and race; indigeneity and indenture; age and sexuality; slavery and apartheid; the Adivasi and the Dalit; settler-colonialisms and nations; nature and environment; caste and tribe; diaspora and blackness; capital and property; science and technology; media and cinema; the body and dance; heteronormativity and queerness; state and governance; and politics and justice. In these ways, the study un-frames disciplinary boundaries and maps emergent terrains, exactly articulating pressing subjects and rethinking distinct subalternities.
This book is aimed at researchers, scholars, and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in the critical human sciences, especially history, anthropology, social theory, and cultural, gender, and literary studies.
About the author
Saurabh Dube is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de México; National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico; and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Apart from around 140 essays and book chapters, his authored books include Untouchable Pasts, Stitches on Time, After Conversion, Subjects of Modernity and Disciplines of Modernity, as well as a sextet in historical anthropology in the Spanish language. A 600-page anthology/omnibus of Dube’s Spanish writings was published in 2019. Among his twenty edited volumes are Postcolonial Passages, Historical Anthropology, Enchantments of Modernity, Crime through Time, Unbecoming Modern and Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South. Dube also edits the innovative series, “Routledge Focus on Modern Subjects.” He has been Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, the Institute of Advanced Study, Warwick, the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa, the Max Weber Kolleg, Germany and the Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna. Dube has also held visiting professorships, several times, at institutions such Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, the University of Iowa, and Goa University (where he occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).
Ishita Banerjee is Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, at the Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, National Researcher, Distinguished Category, SNII (National System of Researchers), Mexico and Distinguished Research Fellow, Max Weber Stiftung (Germany-India). Her six authored books include A History of Modern India (2015), Religion, Law, and Power (2007) and Divine Affairs (2001). Among her dozen edited volumes are Cooking Cultures (2016), On Modern Indian Sensibilities (2018) and Caste in History (2008). Banerjee has published articles in a wide range of journals in the English and Spanish languages and edited the book-series “Hinduism.” She has been Fellow of the Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt and of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. Banerjee has held visiting professorships at the Simon Bolivar Andean University, Quito, Syracuse University and Goa University (where she occupied the DD Kosambi Visiting Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies).
