| dc.contributor |
SturtzSreetharan, Cindi |
en_US |
| dc.contributor |
Moni, Sujatha |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.advisor |
Trichur, Raghuraman |
en_US |
| dc.contributor.author |
Henry, Joseph Robert |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-02-25T20:02:28Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2011-02-25T20:02:28Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2011-02-25 |
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| dc.date.submitted |
2010-05-06 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10211.9/1007 |
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| dc.description |
Thesis (M.A., Anthropology) -- California State University, Sacramento, 2010. |
en_US |
| dc.description.abstract |
This work is a critique of neoliberalism, and approaches the subject from the political economic crisis developing in late capitalism. I contend that the expansion of neoliberal policies during the 1980s and 1990s was a contributing factor to the rise of new forms of nationalist struggle that emerged in a variety of countries around the world. The deregulation of the national economy and the privatization of many state sponsored services have eroded the authority of the modernist nation-state, creating a space where the emergence of neonationalist discourse becomes a possibility.
The following work will develop a theoretically informed framework that contextualizes the conflict in neoliberalism within the broader crisis existing in capitalism. A discursive analysis of the Hindu Right-wing nationalist party, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is provided as a case study to demonstrate how the crisis in neoliberalism has affected the political economic development in India. While the discourse of Hindu fundamentalism has always existed as a marginal discourse since the colonial period, it did not gain traction as a movement until the beginning of the 1980s, a period marking the start of large-scale political economic transformation in India. |
en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship |
Anthropology |
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| dc.language.iso |
en_US |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Neo-nationalism |
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| dc.subject |
Postcolonial India |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
Crisis in late capitalism |
en_US |
| dc.title |
The crisis in neoliberalism: a case study of Hindu right-wing nationalism in India |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Thesis |
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