Guru ki baat
What constitutes a convincing expressions of political connect, relatedness and commonness? Exploring Narendra Modi’s Mann ki baats, we suggest that part of the answer lays in the overlapping lexical and stylistic realm of Modi...
DIPMS Project / In English / Journal Article / Populism & Representation / Preprint / Publications / Text Analysis
by J-T. M. · Published 15/01/2021 · Last modified 21/04/2021
What constitutes a convincing expressions of political connect, relatedness and commonness? Exploring Narendra Modi’s Mann ki baats, we suggest that part of the answer lays in the overlapping lexical and stylistic realm of Modi...
DIPMS Project / History / In English / India / Journal Article / Preprint / Publications / Text Analysis
by J-T.M. · Published 25/06/2020 · Last modified 20/04/2021
This essay uses a natural language processing model trained on a large database of speeches from Prime Ministers since 1946 to generate analytically intelligible answers to a much-debated question: what is the idea of India?
DIPMS Project / In English / India / Journal Article / Populism & Representation / Preprint / Publications / Text Analysis
by J-T.M. · Published 02/05/2020 · Last modified 15/04/2021
We hypothesize that populism relies on a mimesis of the putative people as a metaphor of the majority. It requires anti-elitism to be complemented by a people-leaders’ identification abolishing the symbolic distance between the represented and the representative.
Ethnography / In English / India / Journal Article / Preprint / Publications / Youth Politics
by J-T.M. · Published 09/04/2020 · Last modified 04/08/2020
Through engaging with everyday practices among student activists in contemporary Indian campus politics, this ethnographic study examines the breadcrumb trail between the left and self-fashioning. It focuses on a performative modality of political representation…
In French / India / Journal Article / Political Intermediaries / Preprint / Publications / Youth Politics
by J-T.M. · Published 02/04/2020 · Last modified 15/04/2021
Cet article s’attache à montrer comment des formes d’action collective consistant à occuper l’espace public ont permis un renversement temporaire et inattendu des mécanismes antiélitistes d’appel au peuple du gouvernement indien.
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I showcase here textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The repository gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics.
Topol showcases textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The notebook gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics.
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I showcase here textual and visual gems of a geek mixed methods ethnography in political science and sociology, focusing mainly on educated youth, representation and political becoming in contemporary India. The repository gravitates around a monograph in preparation on campus activism and Indian democracy, and introduces the curated material of an archival exhibition on student politics. I have a growing interest in text analysis and the study of populist speeches. Content is open access.