Focaal Volume 2016, Issue 76: Adivasi and Dalit political pathways in India

focaal_coverWe are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has recently published and is available online at its new home, www.berghahnjournals.com/focaal.

This issue’s theme section, titled “Adivasi and Dalit political pathways in India” and guest edited by Nicolas Jaoul and Alpa Shah, shows how political ethnographers of “insurgent citizenship” among Dalits and Adivasis offer a view from the suppressed margins of Indian society. The articles illustrate the way political subjectivities are being produced on the ground by confronting, negotiating, but also exceeding the state and its policed frameworks. The editors’ introduction is available to all readers for free.

Focaal 76 also includes a regular articles section, which features articles on informalization and differential subsumption in Thailand’s garment sector, transnational practices of Albanian migrants in Athens, and migrants’ imaginaries in Italy. Two book review articles round out the issue.



Volume 2016, Issue 76: Adivasi and Dalit political pathways in India

Guest Editors: Nicolas Jaoul and Alpa Shah

THEME SECTION

Beyond citizenship: Adivasi and Dalit political pathways in India
Nicolas Jaoul

Emancipation as social equality: Subaltern politics in contemporary India
Indrajit Roy

“Real, practical emancipation”?: Subaltern politics and insurgent citizenship in contemporary India
Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Citizenship in religious clothing?: Navayana Buddhism and Dalit emancipation in late 1990s Uttar Pradesh
Nicolas Jaoul

ARTICLES

Putting-out’s return: Informalization and differential subsumption in Thailand’s garment sector
Stephen Campbell

Migration, residential investment, and the experience of “transition”: Tracing transnational practices of Albanian migrants in Athens
Gera Dalipaj

Moving on: Italy as a stepping stone in migrants’ imaginaries
Anna Tuckett

REVIEW ARTICLES

Engaged anthropology in the time of late liberalism: Activists, anthropologists, and the state in India
Moyukh Chatterjee

Of dispossessions and reclamations: Anthropology in the time of crisis
Elisabeth Schober


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