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Pramod Ranjan deposited Threats to the concept of social justice in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn this paper, I have tried to define social justice in the Indian context and about the dangers shadowing its basic concept.
Social justice means providing justice to all those people who have had to face injustice having been subject to some form of dominance. They may have had to face injustice due to their varna, ethnicity, profession,…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर खतरे in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoसमाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा क्या है?
भारत में सामाजिक न्याय का संघर्ष मुख्य रूप से द्विजों और शूद्रों-अतिशूद्रों-आदिवासियों के बीच है। द्विज अल्पसंख्यक हैं जबकि शुद्र-अतिशूद्र-आदिवासी बहुसंख्यक। देश के लोकतंत्र पर राज करने वाली दोनों प्रमुख पार्टियां – कांग्रेस और भारतीय जनता पार्टी – अपने संगठन में ओबीसी प्रकोष्ठ, दलित प्रकोष्ठ, आदिवासी प्रकोष्ठ…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited The Battle for Cultural Space in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIt is essential to find out how Jawaharlal Nehru University created in 1966 by a special Act of Parliament, became a leftist bastion. The answer lies in its unique reservation system. In this university, from the very outset, aspirants from backward districts, women and other weaker sections were given preference in enrolment. Kashmiri migrants…[Read more]
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited A Historical, Critical Retrospective on Historical Criticism in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis chapter examines how historical and critical modalities of reading sacred scripture became central to modern biblical studies. It examines what “criticism” was, whence it came, what it did, and which critiques it sustained, before considering its prospects for future historical and literary analysis of the Bible.
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Dana Williams deposited Anarchy & Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoAnarchy and Society explores the many ways in which the discipline of Sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future ‘anarchist sociology’, by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers (including Kropotkin, Proudhon, Landauer, Goldman, and Ward), as well as an ana…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Facing Demons: The reclamation of Mahishasur as a heroic figure in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis is an article focused on the Mahishasur movement. The article also discusses the ideological bases of this movement.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoRecently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किसकी पूजा कर रहे हैं बहुजन (महिषासुर: एक पुर्नपाठ) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन से संबंधित यह पहली पुस्तिका है, जिसमें महिषासुर से संबंधित विभिन्न परंपराओं की जानकारी है। इस पुस्तिका के बाद 2014 में एक और पुस्तिका “महिषासुर” शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई। 2016 में इन दोनों पुस्तिकाओं के लेखों को कुछ अन्य लेखाें के साथ मिलाकर एक पुस्तक “महिषासुर: एक जननायक” प्रकाशित की गई। उसके बाद एक अन्य स्वतंत्र संपादित पुस्तक “मह…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited »une institution cosmopolite«? Rituelle Grenzziehungen im freimaurerischen Internationalismus um 1900 in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited »une institution cosmopolite«? Rituelle Grenzziehungen im freimaurerischen Internationalismus um 1900 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe period of masonic internationalism in the last third of the 19th and first third of the 20th centuries saw the most visible – and controversial – attempts to organisationally model the “cosmopolitan imperative” of freemasonry. The various freemasonries in Europe saw themselves as links in a world-spanning “chain of brothers” forged by the…[Read more]
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Amy DeRogatis deposited American Religious Sounds Project Site Coordinator Manual in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe American Religious Sounds Project (ARSP) Site Coordinator Manual was compiled in 2019 to assist researchers and their students in following the ARSP procedures for site selection, recording, and archiving sounds. The topics covered in the ARSP manual include: project summary and history; site selection and fieldwork, using recording equipment,…[Read more]
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Joachim Berger deposited Godsdienstvrijheid of gewetensvrijheid. De vrijmetselarij als internationale proeftuin voor fundamentele maatschappelijke vraagstukken (ca. 1850–1930) in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoFreedom of or from religion. Freemasonry as an international testing ground for fundamental societal issues (c. 1850–1930)
In masonic internationalism, key framework parameters of masonic activity were negotiated. They concerned the fundamental societal issue of how religious freedom (freedom to practise religion) and liberty of conscience (…[Read more] -
Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited Transcending human sociality: eco-cosmological relationships between entities in the ecosphere in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months agoBased on a discussion of the theoretical contributions of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Clastres, this article explores social relationships as more than a human dimension. Though strongly analysed by both anthropologists, these relationships appear to involve indigenous societies’ whole ecological and cosmological system. In this sense, re…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited “साहित्य प्राय: उनका पक्ष लेता है जो हारे हुए हैं” : कवि अरुण कमल से प्रमोद रंजन की बातचीत in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoहिंदी कवि अरूण कमल से प्रमेाद रंजन की यह बातचीत पटना से प्रकाशित जन विकल्प के प्रवेशांक (जनवरी, 2007) में प्रकाशित हुई थी। साक्षात्कार के लिए अरुण कमल को प्रश्न साैंप दिए गए थे, जिसका उन्होंने लिखित उत्तर दिया था।
इस साक्षात्कार में अरूण कमल ने जिन प्रश्नों के उत्तर दिए हैं, उनमें मुख्य निम्नांकित हैं :
1. आपको २०वीं सदी के एक महत्वपूर्ण क…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नरों की अस्मिमा : पार्टनर आपकी पक्षधरता क्या है? in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoवर्ष 2007 में मधुर भंडारकर की फिल्म ‘ट्रैफिक सिग्नल’ आई थी। इस फिल्म में शहरों में हाशिए पर रहने वाली जिंदगियों का चित्रण था। फिल्म में छोटे-मोटे काम करने वाले, भीख मांग कर गुजारा करने वालों के साथ किन्नरों के त्रासद जीवन को भी दिखाया गया था। उस समय हिमाचल प्रदेश के कुछ लेखकों ने फिल्म में हिजड़ों को किन्नर कहने का का पुरजोर विरोध किया था। परिण…[Read more]
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Fazil Jamal deposited Between law and politics: Reflections on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoWith US economic sanctions against Russia in recent years, the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline project in Europe that links Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea came under considerable global attention. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased uncertainties around the Project, arguably one of the world’s most consequential submarine pip…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited उपभोक्तावाद और परिवार in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoइस लेख में उपभोक्तावाद के सकारात्मक और नकारात्मक पहलुओं की चर्चा की गई है। लेख में बताया गया है कि उपभोक्तावाद परिवार की सामंती संरचना को तोड़ता है, तथा आधुनिक मूल्यों की स्थापना करता है। लेकिन इसके अनेक नकारात्मक पहलु भी हैं। इसके कारण कम आय वर्ग के परिवारों में पारंपरिक मूल्यों के ध्वस्त होने के कारण कई ऐसी दर्दनाक घटनाएं होती है…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited यात्रा वृतांत: महोबा में महिषासुर in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoयह बुंदेलखंड स्थित महोबा का यात्रा संस्मरण है।
इसमें लेखक पौराणिक मिथक महिषासुर से संबंधित स्थलों की खोज में निकलता है।
वर्ष 2011 में जवाहर लाल नेहरू यूनिवर्सिटी के शोधार्थियों द्वारा महिषासुर को दलित, पिछड़े और आदिवासियों का पौरणिक नायक के रूप से प्रचारित किए जाने के बाद हंगामा खड़ा हो गया था। लेखक उस समय एक पत्रिका में प्रबंध-संपादक के रूप म…[Read more] -
Fazil Jamal deposited Transit of energy via cross-border pipelines: A study on the limits of GATT article V in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 3 years, 5 months agoThe freedom of transit in international trade law originally involved the movement of goods across borders without any arbitrary or unnecessary hindrance. In this era of network-bound energy systems requiring the permanent establishment of fixed installations such as gas pipelines and high voltage power transmission grids to facilitate access to…[Read more]
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