Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Alf Gunvald Nilsen is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Bergen. His research focuses on social movements in the global South. He is the author of Dispossession and Resistance in India (2012) and co-editor of Social Movements in the Global South (2011) and Marxism and Social Movements (2013).
Dispossession and Resistance in India
This book deals with the controversies on developmental aspects of large dams, with a particular focus on the Narmada Valley projects in India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and researc...
How is subalternity constituted and contested in Indian society? This is the question at the centre of this collection of essays, which draws on Antonio Gramsci's work to investigate the dynamics o...

Bhagwan Das
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Rejina Marandi
Rejina Marandi (1987) is a Santal, born and brought up in Gossaigaon, Kolkrajhar district, Assam. Her schooling and college education has been completed in Assam, West Bengal, and Meghalaya.
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Raosaheb K. Kale
Prof. Raosaheb K. Kale is an eminent scientist. He has taught at the School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is a prominent recipient of the ICMR Award (1996) for his or

Denzil Saldanha
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Social Research Collective
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D.N. Jha
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Manisha Sethi
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Revati Laul
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Suleiman Mourad
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Shaswati Mazumdar
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Dwaipayan Banerjee
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Patricia Jeffery
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Charles Bettelheim
Charles Bettelheim (1913-2006) was a highly influential French Marxist economist and historian.

Paulo Varela Gomes
Paulo Varela Gomes (28 October 1952 - 30 April 2016) was a Portuguese critic, writer, historian of architecture and professor. He was also the presenter of two television documentary series for the

P. Chandramohan
P. Chandramohan did his Master's in History from Calicut University, Kerala, and pursued his research on the Social and Cultural History of Modern Travancore at the Centre for Historical Studies, J

A.L. Morton
Arthur Leslie Morton (1903-87) was a British Marxist historian.