Talk:Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Professor in the Department of Sociology at University of Pretoria as of October 2022. According to his bio, his research interests include Social movements, development studies, Marxism, postcolonialism, political economy, historical sociology, neoliberalism, critical ethnography, subaltern studies, adivasi studies, state theory.

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

Monograph

1. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. Dispossession and Resistance in India: The River and the Rage. Routledge, 2010.

Edited Volumes

1. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen, editors. Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy? Palgrave, 2016.
2. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Srila Roy, editors. New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India. Oxford University Press, 2015.

Journal Articles

1. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "'Real’ Practical Emancipation? Subaltern Politics and Insurgent Citizenship in Contemporary India." Focaal, special issue on “Beyond Citizenship: Dalit and Adivasi Politics in India,” 2016.
2. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "Against the Current; From Below: Resisting Dispossession in the Narmada Valley, India." Journal of Poverty, vol. 17, no. 4, 2013, pp. 460-92.
3. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "Adivasi Mobilization in Contemporary India: Democratizing the Local State." Critical Sociology, vol. 39, no. 4, 2013, pp. 615-33.
4. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "Adivasis in and against the State: Subaltern Politics and State Power in Contemporary India." Critical Asian Studies, vol. 44, no. 2, 2012, pp. 251-82.
5. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "Political Economy, Social Movements and State Power: A Marxian Perspective on Two Decades of Resistance to the Narmada Dams." Journal of Historical Sociology, vol. 21, no. 2-3, 2008, pp. 303-330.
6. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald. "On New Social Movements and ‘the Reinvention of India’." Forum for Development Studies, vol. 34, no. 2, 2007, pp. 271-93.

Co-authored Articles

1. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, et al. "New Social Movements." Keywords in Modern Indian Studies, edited by Gita Dharampal-Frick et al., Oxford University Press, 2015.
2. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, et al. "Contesting the Postcolonial Development Project: A Marxist Perspective on Popular Resistance in the Narmada Valley." Marxism and Social Movements, edited by Colin Barker et al., Brill Academic Publishers, 2013.
3. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Sara Motta, editors. Social Movements in the Global South: Dispossession, Development and Resistance. Palgrave, 2011.

Co-authored Books

1. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen. "Law-Struggles, Law-making and the Politics of Hegemony in Neoliberal India: Towards a Critical Perspective on the 2013 Land Acquisition Act." The Land Question in India: State, Dispossession, and Capitalist Transition, edited by Anthony D’Costa and Achin Chakraborty, Oxford University Press, 2017, forthcoming.
2. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen. "Social Movements, State Formation and Democracy in India: An Introduction." Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?, edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen and Alf Gunvald Nilsen, Palgrave, forthcoming.
3. Nilsen, Alf Gunvald, and Srila Roy. "Reconceptualizing Subaltern Politics in Contemporary India." New Subaltern Politics: Reconceptualizing Hegemony and Resistance in Contemporary India, edited by Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Srila Roy, Oxford University Press, 2015.