Thomas Blom Hansen

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Thomas Blom Hansen

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Social Anthropology

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#23

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Bachelors Anthropology University of Copenhagen

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Blom Hansen is a Danish anthropologist and leading contemporary commentator on religious and political violence in India. Background Hansen has a BA in Sociology and an MA in political theory from the University of Aalborg in Denmark. He then did development work in Orissa, India, in the mid-1980s. He became interested in anthropology during a PhD on Indian nationalism in Pune and Mumbai in western India, begun in the late 1980s when he was unexpectedly granted a research visa to study nationalism. He graduated from Roskilde University and his D.Phil. was later made into a book .

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Thomas Blom Hansen's Published Works

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States of imagination : ethnographic explorations of the postcolonial state (2001) (648)
The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (1999) (559)
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World (2009) (405)
Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (2001) (190)
Recuperating Masculinity: Hindu nationalism, violence and the exorcism of the Muslim 'Other' (1996) (110)
Introduction: States of Imagination (2020) (91)
The BJP and the compulsions of politics in India (2001) (79)
Melancholia of Freedom: Social Life in an Indian Township in South Africa (2012) (59)
Sovereigns Beyond the State: On Legality and Authority in Urban India (2005) (56)
Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (2019) (54)
Predicaments of secularism: Muslim identities and politics in Mumbai (2003) (49)
Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa (2006) (48)
Review of Jonathan Friedman 1994. Cultural identity and global process. London. Sage (1996) (38)
Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai (2001) (35)
Performers of Sovereignty (2006) (31)
Politics by other means (2006) (30)
The vernacularisation of Hindutva: The BJP and Shiv Sena in rural Maharashtra (1996) (30)
The Production of Political Authority in the Locality (2010) (27)
Melancholia of Freedom: Humour and Nostalgia among Indians in South Africa (2005) (22)
Melancholia of Freedom (2012) (22)
Inside the Romanticist Episteme (1997) (21)
Introduction: Portable Spirits and Itinerant People: Religion and Migration in South Africa in a Comparative Perspective (2009) (18)
Plays, Politics and Cultural Identity Among Indians in Durban (2000) (18)
Migration, religion and post‐imperial formations (2014) (16)
The political theology of violence in contemporary India (2008) (15)
The India That Does Not Shine (2007) (15)
Controlled Emancipation: Women and Hindu Nationalism (1994) (14)
Democracy Against the Law (2019) (11)
Wages of Violence (2018) (11)
Globalisation and Nationalist Imaginations Hindutva's Promise of Equality through Difference (2016) (11)
Cool Passion : The Political Theology of Conviction (2009) (7)
Bridging the Gulf: Global Horizons, Mobility and Local Identity among Muslims in Mumbai (2001) (7)
5. The Saffron Wave (1999) (5)
Citizenship as horizon (2015) (5)
PHP for Absolute Beginners (2009) (5)
Hindu nationalism and Indian politics (2004) (5)
The unwieldy fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa (2010) (4)
Whose Public, Whose Authority? Reflections on the moral force of violence (2018) (4)
Race, Security, and Spatial Anxieties in the Postapartheid City (2008) (3)
From Culture to Barbed Wire: On Houses and Walls in South Africa (2011) (3)
Secular Speech and Popular Passions:: The Antinomies of Indian Secularism (2011) (3)
2. Imagining the Hindu Nation (1999) (2)
The State as an Ethnographic Object (2019) (2)
Niraja Gopal Jayal. Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. (2014) (2)
Sovereignty in a Minor Key (2021) (2)
Chapter 2. Bombay and the Politics of Urban Desire (2002) (2)
Introduction (2019) (2)
Secular Speech and Popular Passions (2011) (2)
Review Symposium: The Production of Hindu-Muslim Violence in Contemporary India by Paul R. Brass (pu (2006) (2)
The Anthropology of Names and Naming: Where Names Fall Short: Names as Performances in Contemporary Urban South Africa (2006) (1)
The Force of Symbolic Power (2020) (1)
Strangers, Neighbours, and Political Order in The South Asian City (2013) (1)
In search of God’s hand: on masculinity and religion (2009) (1)
4. Democracy, Populism, and Governance in India in the 1980s (1999) (0)
Contributors (2005) (0)
Secularism, Popular Passion and Public Order in India (2016) (0)
Civics, civility and race in post-apartheid South Africa: (2018) (0)
3. Organizing the Hindu Nation (1999) (0)
1. Modernity, Nation, and Democracy in India (1999) (0)
7. Hindu Nationalism, Democracy, and Globalization (1999) (0)
chapter thirteen. Secular Speech and Popular Passions: The Antinomies of Indian Secularism (2020) (0)
Deleting and Updating Entries (2014) (0)
Symposium : The Production of Hindu – Muslim Violence in Contemporary India (2006) (0)
Going Public with Your Blog (2014) (0)
Showing Blog Entries (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (1996) (0)
Adding Images to Blog Entries (2014) (0)
Kapferer, Bruce and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen (eds.): Crisis of the state. War and social upheaval (2013) (0)
Where names Fall Short: Naming and Forgetting in contemporary South Africa (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Cool Passion (2009) (0)
Building a Dynamic Image Gallery with Image Upload (2014) (0)
Working with Databases (2014) (0)
6. Communal Identities at the Heart of the Nation (1999) (0)
Understanding PHP: Language Basics (2014) (0)
Improving Your Blog with User Comments and Search (2014) (0)
Spicing Up Your Image Gallery with JavaScript and CSS (2014) (0)
Building the Entry Manager (2014) (0)
Introduction. Hindu Nationalismand Democracy in India (1999) (0)
Cool passion: the political theology of modern convictions (2009) (0)
Setting Up a PHP Development Environment (2014) (0)
Introduction Thomas Blom Hansen and (2005) (0)
Sounds of freedom. Music, taxis and the racial imagination in post-apartheid South Africa (2006) (0)

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