LAW AND SOCIAL THEORY IN THE TWENTY‐FIRST CENTURY

Humanomics ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis D. Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

The Promise of Class Analysis in Understanding Nepali National Identity in Darjeeling

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Swatahsiddha Sarkar ◽  
Babika Khawas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primary Factor ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Twenty First Century

The class question of Nepali identity in Darjeeling lacks adequate attention, except in the writings of historian Kumar Pradhan. Pradhan has emphasized class as the primary factor that reinforced national unity among the Indian Nepalis (i.e. ‘Gorkhas’) settled in Darjeeling. This chapter explores the interstices between class and culture in order to illustrate how community solidarity rather than class polarization galvanized the pan-ethnic Gorkhas of Darjeeling. The chapter draws on Marxian class analysis with a Weberian tint to conceptually situate the perennial problem of Gorkha identity. Putting Darjeeling, Pradhan’s work, and social theory into dialogue, the chapter shows how the identity question in Darjeeling calls for a new program of research. Situating Pradhan in his life and time, the chapter concludes by asking what lessons one can draw from his proposals in understanding related questions of nationalism, federalism, and pan-ethnic unity across the Indo-Nepal border in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Changing times: Social Theory & Health into the second decade of the twenty-first century

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Graham Scambler ◽  
Paul Higgs ◽  
Richard Levinson ◽  
Ruth Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Changing Times

scholarly journals The work of evidence in critical global health

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Biehl ◽  
Vincanne Adams
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Special Section ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Complex Forms

This special section critically examines the paradigms and values that undergird the ever-expanding field of global health. The richly textured ethnographic think pieces presented here tackle problems of evidence and efficacy as complex forms of ethical and theoretical engagement in contexts of neoliberalism, war, technological innovation, inequality, and structural violence. These works seek to contribute to a people-centered and politically relevant social theory for the twenty-first century.

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