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Papers by Krishna Menon
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021
The inequalities embedded in the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are glaring. Hom... more The inequalities embedded in the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are glaring. Home to 81 percent of the world’s adult population, lowand middle-income countries have been able to purchase only a third of global vaccine production; meanwhile, high-income countries control half of the global supply (Rouw et al. 2021). Pandemic responses continue to reveal and intersect with deep-seated hierarchies within and across countries. Authoritarian regimes are using COVID-19 as a justification for further clampdown on information and freedom of expression. In the very fluid context of the pandemic, societies such as India have seen that the disregard for democratic norms and transparent working has created a sudden and acute shortage of medical oxygen, leaving some countries gasping for breath. Political differences and conflict are being stamped out ruthlessly in the name of public health (International IDEA 2020). As ever, seemingly dramatic shifts – which we long to see in t...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2013
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
This paper handles with current research trends in Indian politics. There are some debates among ... more This paper handles with current research trends in Indian politics. There are some debates among the scholars regarding on the natures of development of democracy. Some issues on development of democracy have been come up and changed from 1960s up to now. For example, in the following year of independence, there was a kind of consensus built around the charismatic presence and leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. But by the end of the 1960s decade. the first cracks in this consensus started to emerge. This breakdown of consensus sped along and by the 1980s through many other problem event of Indian politics, the challenge to the Nehruvian consensus became stronger, louder, and deeper. Current research in the field of Indian politics focuses its attention on this challenge and the emerging question and issues.
In the course MWG-001, in Block I, Unit 1,2,3 and 4 we have already studied about the feminist di... more In the course MWG-001, in Block I, Unit 1,2,3 and 4 we have already studied about the feminist discourse of 19 and 20 centuries, the emergence of the idea of the political and so on. In this Unit, our attempts will be to investigate the historical and contextual underpinnings of the notion of the political. Broadly, it tries to understand and examine the tradition of western political theory. It also examines the categories of state, individual and citizenship. We start with an introduction to the notion of the political that is ingrained within Greek thought. We will then shift to the medieval political thought that linked the political to notions of power and force and detached itself from the realm of ethics. The Unit will then provide debates on the modern understanding of the political and conclude with the feminist departure from these readings.
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021
Studies in Indian Politics, 2013
André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012. 214 pag... more André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012. 214 pages. ₹ 595.
The last two decades have seen the emergence of not just new markets but new market spaces that p... more The last two decades have seen the emergence of not just new markets but new market spaces that provide a visual experience of products and persons that closely approximates the field set up by the global media. Malls represent the concrete representations of unabashed celebration and acknowledgment of desire. Malls are one of the spaces that shape everyday lives suggesting the rightfulness of fulfilling sexual, cultural, social and gastronomic desires. One ‘category’ of persons presumably shaped by these spaces are those who work in them. Our concern is particularly with the negotiation of body and subjectivity as women travel daily, crossing borders of class and caste and neighbourhood -from the lower class world that forms their residences to the space of erotic bodies and hyper real images. The mall is a temple dedicated to the gratification of the body and all its senses. The young nubile woman working in the mall is an ideal conduit for the creation, communication and the cons...
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2019
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021
The inequalities embedded in the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are glaring. Hom... more The inequalities embedded in the international distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are glaring. Home to 81 percent of the world’s adult population, lowand middle-income countries have been able to purchase only a third of global vaccine production; meanwhile, high-income countries control half of the global supply (Rouw et al. 2021). Pandemic responses continue to reveal and intersect with deep-seated hierarchies within and across countries. Authoritarian regimes are using COVID-19 as a justification for further clampdown on information and freedom of expression. In the very fluid context of the pandemic, societies such as India have seen that the disregard for democratic norms and transparent working has created a sudden and acute shortage of medical oxygen, leaving some countries gasping for breath. Political differences and conflict are being stamped out ruthlessly in the name of public health (International IDEA 2020). As ever, seemingly dramatic shifts – which we long to see in t...
Economic and Political Weekly, 2013
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
This paper handles with current research trends in Indian politics. There are some debates among ... more This paper handles with current research trends in Indian politics. There are some debates among the scholars regarding on the natures of development of democracy. Some issues on development of democracy have been come up and changed from 1960s up to now. For example, in the following year of independence, there was a kind of consensus built around the charismatic presence and leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru. But by the end of the 1960s decade. the first cracks in this consensus started to emerge. This breakdown of consensus sped along and by the 1980s through many other problem event of Indian politics, the challenge to the Nehruvian consensus became stronger, louder, and deeper. Current research in the field of Indian politics focuses its attention on this challenge and the emerging question and issues.
In the course MWG-001, in Block I, Unit 1,2,3 and 4 we have already studied about the feminist di... more In the course MWG-001, in Block I, Unit 1,2,3 and 4 we have already studied about the feminist discourse of 19 and 20 centuries, the emergence of the idea of the political and so on. In this Unit, our attempts will be to investigate the historical and contextual underpinnings of the notion of the political. Broadly, it tries to understand and examine the tradition of western political theory. It also examines the categories of state, individual and citizenship. We start with an introduction to the notion of the political that is ingrained within Greek thought. We will then shift to the medieval political thought that linked the political to notions of power and force and detached itself from the realm of ethics. The Unit will then provide debates on the modern understanding of the political and conclude with the feminist departure from these readings.
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2020
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2021
Studies in Indian Politics, 2013
André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012. 214 pag... more André Béteille, Democracy and Its Institutions. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 2012. 214 pages. ₹ 595.
The last two decades have seen the emergence of not just new markets but new market spaces that p... more The last two decades have seen the emergence of not just new markets but new market spaces that provide a visual experience of products and persons that closely approximates the field set up by the global media. Malls represent the concrete representations of unabashed celebration and acknowledgment of desire. Malls are one of the spaces that shape everyday lives suggesting the rightfulness of fulfilling sexual, cultural, social and gastronomic desires. One ‘category’ of persons presumably shaped by these spaces are those who work in them. Our concern is particularly with the negotiation of body and subjectivity as women travel daily, crossing borders of class and caste and neighbourhood -from the lower class world that forms their residences to the space of erotic bodies and hyper real images. The mall is a temple dedicated to the gratification of the body and all its senses. The young nubile woman working in the mall is an ideal conduit for the creation, communication and the cons...