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Talk:David Mosse

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By Sachi Anjunkar

David Mosse is Professor of Social Anthropology at SOAS, University of London[1]. He is also Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute; Member, SOAS Food Studies Centre and Member, Centre for Water and Development. According to his university profile, his research spans interests in the anthropology of mental health and cultural psychiatry, caste and Dalit rights, development and activism, environmental history and water resources, the anthropology of Christianity, South Asian society and popular religion.

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."[2]

Publications related to India[edit]

Books[edit]

  1. Mosse, David. The Saint in the Banyan Tree: Christianity and Caste Society in India. University of California Press, 2012.
  2. Mosse, David. Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice. Pluto Press, 2005.
  3. Mosse, David. The Rule of Water. Statecraft, Ecology and Collective Action in South India. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Monographs[edit]

  1. Dhanda, M, et al. Caste in Britain: Socio-legal Review: Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 91. Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2014.
  2. Dhanda, M, et al. Caste in Britain: Experts' Seminar and Stakeholders' Workshop: Equality and Human Rights Commission Research Report no. 92. Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2014.
  3. Mosse, David. Power and the Durability of Poverty: A Critical Exploration of the Links Between Culture, Marginality and Chronic Poverty. CPRC Working Paper 107, 2007.

Edited Books[edit]

  1. Mosse, David, editor. Adventures in Aidland: The Anthropology of Professionals in International Development. Berghahn Press, 2011.
  2. Mosse, David, and David Lewis, editors. Development Brokers and Translators. The Ethnography of Aid and Agencies. Kumarian Press, 2006.
  3. Mosse, David, and David Lewis, editors. The Aid Effect: Giving and Governing in International Development. Pluto Press, 2005.

Book Sections[edit]

  1. Mosse, David. "Reflections on Open Dialogue in Mental Health Clinical and Ethnographic Practice." Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges, edited by Emma Gilberthorpe, Routledge, 2022, pp. 1-28.
  2. Mosse, David. "Caste, Religion and Nation: The Relationship Between Christianity and Caste Society in India and Its Misconstrual." Contested Hierarchies, Persisting Influence: Caste and Power in Twenty-First-Century India, edited by Surinder Jodhka and James Manor, Orient Blackswan, 2018, pp. 261-290.

Journal Articles[edit]

  1. Marsh, Ian, et al. "First-Person Accounts of the Processes and Planning Involved in a Suicide Attempt on the Railway." BJPsych Open, vol. 7, 2021, pp. 1-7.
  2. Mosse, David, and Sundara Babu Nagappan. "NGOs as Social Movements: Policy Narratives, Networks and the Performance of Dalit Rights in South India." Development and Change, vol. 52, no. 1, 2020, pp. 134-167.

The author writes about how international human rights organizations, NGOs, and Dalit activists are approaching the issue of caste discrimination, the author further argues that it is linked to certain historical aspects of Hinduism and Brahmanic Social Structures. According to the author, Hindus have neglected and failed to address the discrimination and violence against Dalits. The author uses his made-up word "Brahminic Social Structure" to portray the seriousness of his articles but fails to do so and makes the following unsubstantiated statements:

    • “India’s NGO Dalit activists could use the idea that theirs was part of a universal struggle against the violation of human rights, unbound to the particularities of India, Hinduism or Brahmanic domination.”
    • “So one presents himself as Christian, another arrives with forehead marked with sandal paste in a typical middle-class Hindu manner; the point being: when you go with a file on a caste question you emphasize religion.”

Conference Papers[edit]

  1. Mosse, David. "The Anthropology of International Development." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, 19 November 2015, Denver, Colorado. Conference Presentation.

Reports[edit]

  1. Dhanda, M, et al. "Caste-Based Discrimination in the UK: A Review." Equality and Human Rights Commission, 2015.
  2. Mosse, David. "Caste and Development: Contemporary Perspectives on a Structure of Discrimination and Advantage." World Development Report, 2010.

References[edit]

  1. ↑ David Mosse page on SOAS, University of London accessed October 10, 2022
  2. ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022
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