Talk:Dag-Erik Berg

By Anirudha patel

Dag-Erik Berg is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business Administration and Social Sciences at Molde University College as of August 2023. According to his university profile, his research interests are caste and legal change in India’s constitutional democracy and international human rights politics; particularly the history of Dalit movements, articulations, and the social and political thought of Bhimrao Ambedkar.

In 2021, he endorsed the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" conference and made the allegation

"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."

Publications related to India

Journal Articles

1. Berg, Dag-Erik. “Foregrounding contingency in caste-based dominance: Ambedkar, hegemony, and the Pariah concept.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, vol. 44, no. 8, 2018, pp. 843-864, doi: 10.1177/0191453717744007.
2. Berg, Dag-Erik. “Race as a political frontier against caste: WCAR, Dalits and India’s foreign policy.” Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 21, no. 4, 2018, pp. 990-1013, doi: 10.1057/s41268-017-0091-3.
3. Berg, Dag-Erik. “Caste, hierarchy and race in a world-historical perspective: Louis Dumont and his critique of Max Weber.” Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol. 36, no. 4, 2015, pp. 413-430, doi: 10.1080/07256868.2015.1049982.
4. Berg, Dag Erik. “Structural mechanism, law, and the Dalit question in India.” Asian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 2, no. 1, 2015, pp. 21-33, doi: 10.1017/als.2014.14.
5. Berg, Dag-Erik. “Karamchedu and the Dalit subject in Andhra Pradesh.” Contributions to Indian sociology, vol. 48, no. 3, 2014, pp. 383-408, doi: 10.1177/0069966714540242.
6. Berg, Dag-Erik. “Scheduled castes policies in interstate perspective: Constitutional power, argumentative practices, and governance in India.” India Review, vol. 13, no. 3, 2014, pp. 235-250, doi: 10.1080/14736489.2014.937269.
7. Berg, Dag Erik. “Dalit between caste and democracy.” International Politics, vol. 67, no. 2, 2009, pp. 199-219.
8. Berg, Dag Erik. “Sovereignties, the World Conference against Racism 2001 and the Formation of a Dalit Human Rights Campaign.” Questions de Recherche / Research in Question, 2007.
9. Berg, Dag Erik. “Marginale grupper og domstolens hegemoniske status: Erfaringer fra Dalitene i India.” Nordisk tidsskrift for menneskerettigheter, vol. 22, no. 1, 2004, pp. 62-69.