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Ajay Gudavarthy, CPS, JNU

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    • Asia
    • Counter-Strategies
    • Labor Struggles
    • Aesthetics & Affects

    How the Farmers in India Countered the Populist Authoritarianism of the Right

    Theory & ResearchCounterstrategies need not merely emotionalize protest but to also revolutionize emotions. They need to dig deep into everyday ethics, their presence in common sense, and modes of normative evaluation. This is what happened during the Indian farmers' protests. Three years after they erupted, Ajay Gudavarthy takes a look at the successful mobilization that managed to make a dent in India's authoritarian regime
    By Ajay Gudavarthy, CPS, JNU
    How the Farmers in India Countered the Populist Authoritarianism of the Right