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About the Author
Jelle P Wouters is a social anthropologist and teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at Royal Thimphu College. He has written on politics, insurgency, capitalism, and identity in Northeast India, and is the author of In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency: Tribes, State, and Violence in Northeast India (OUP, 2018).
Reviews
Jelle Wouters has come of age, both in terms of theoretical insights and writing skills, and with Vernacular Politics he seems fully poised to dominate the scene. This book not only brings together some of the theoretically most topical, portent, and inebriating concepts like counter-sovereignties, ethno-politics, bio-moral politics, prophecy as politics, cosmo-politics, alter-politics, and compressed modernity, but also some of the most promising young and a few but highly accomplished senior scholars. * Tanka B. Subba, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong *
Vernacular Politics challenges the illusion of transparency of the practices and aspirations of contemporary politics. The essays draw out the multiple and complex local meanings attached to voting, running for office, or offering armed resistance and provide fresh perspectives on politics in Northeast India. * Sanjib Baruah, Bard College, New York. *
Book Information
ISBN 9780192863461
Author Jelle J.P. Wouters
Format Hardback
Page Count 426
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 1g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 146mm * 28mm