The Research Project on New India 

The symposium 'Ways of Overlooking' follows a number of workshops on the theme of ‘New India’ organized at the University of Copenhagen as part of the research programme ‘Nation in Motion: Globalization: Development, Governance in New India’ run by Dr Ravinder Kaur.

This includes ‘Spectacle of Globality (2012https://cgsas.tors.ku.dk/calendar/spectacle_new/), Social Mobility in Post-reform India (2013 https://cgsas.tors.ku.dk/calendar/social_mobility_and_inequality/) and New India’s World (2015 https://cgsas.tors.ku.dk/calendar/new_indias_world/)

Some of the proceedings from this research programme in published form can be accessed here.

Journal Special Issues by Ravinder Kaur

• Social Mobility in post-reform India, Contemporary South Asia (Co-editor: Nandini Sundar, forthcoming September 2016) 

• Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital, Novelty in India, Special issue, Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Volume 23, Number 3, 2016 (co-editor: Thomas Blom Hansen) Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gide20/23/3?nav=tocList 

• Governing Difference: Explorations in Inequity, Inequality and Identity in India and China, Special Issue, Third World Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 4, Spring 2012. (Co-editor: Ayo Wahlberg) https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ctwq20/33/4

Articles by Ravinder Kaur

• Snakes and Ladders: Rethinking Social Mobility in Post-reform India,Contemporary South Asia, (with Nandini Sundar, forthcoming 2016) 

• The Innovative Indian: Common Man and the Politics of Jugaad Culture,Contemporary South Asia, (forthcoming, September  2016)

• ‘I am India Shining’: Investor-Citizen and the Indelible Icon of Good Times,Journal of Asian Studies,  (August 2016)
  http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=10468982&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0021911816000619

• Aesthetics of Arrival: Spectacle, Capital and Novelty in post-reform India, Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Spring 2016, Volume 23(3): 265-275  (with Thomas Blom Hansen)
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034135

• Post-exotic India: Remixed Histories and Smart Images in the Contemporary Global, Identities: Global Studies in Power and Culture, Spring 2016, Volume 23(3): 307-326 
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1070289X.2015.1034134?journalCode=gide20

• Good Times, Brought to you by Brand Modi, Television and New Media, May 2015, Vol. 16(4): 323-330
  https://curis.ku.dk/ws/files/137464936/Good_Times_Brand_Modi_TVNM.pdf

• Writing History in a Paperless World: Archives of the Future, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2015, Volume 79, Number 1, 242-253
  http://static-curis.ku.dk/portal/files/137464888/Hist_Workshop_J_2015_Kaur_242_53.pdf

• India Inc. and the Corruption protests, Economic and Political Weekly. May 2012. Volume XLVII, Number 20, 40-45
  http://www.epw.in/journal/2012/20/perspectives/india-inc-and-its-moral-discontents.html

• Governing Difference in India and China: An Introduction, Third World Quarterly,2012, Volume 33(4): 1-8 (with Ayo Wahlberg)
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2012.657418?src=recsys

• Nation’s Two Bodies: Rethinking the idea of ‘new’ India and its Other, Third World Quarterly, 2012, Volume 33(4): 603-621
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2012.657420