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  • Note 26: Ranajit Guha, "Discipline and Mobilize," in Subaltern Studies, no. 7, ed.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • The Indian (in part NRI) counterpart of the two western theories has been the "Subaltern" school, whose members have worked as a "collective" since 1982.

    Bloggers.Pakistan 2008

  • In “Law, Politics and the Subaltern in Counter-hegemonic Globalization,” Boaventura de Sousa Santos and César Rodríguez-Garavito announce their intention of treating the sometimes weak and poorly organized protests of disadvantaged workers against globalization as genuine acts of resistance.

    Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions 2008

  • A Subaltern Studies Reader 1986 – 1995 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997). back

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Note 6: Gyan Prakash, "Subaltern Studies as Postcolonial Criticism," AHR 99: 5 (1994), 1475 – 90. back

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • Here you may find the result of one individual attack with the occupants of the grave all from one regiment, probably from the same company of their Battalion and all of an age: 17, 18, 19 years old, the same ages as our sons and daughters who have just got their A level results, often with their Subaltern of like age.

    Archive 2007-09-02 2007

  • Here you may find the result of one individual attack with the occupants of the grave all from one regiment, probably from the same company of their Battalion and all of an age: 17, 18, 19 years old, the same ages as our sons and daughters who have just got their A level results, often with their Subaltern of like age.

    Remembering Captain Jack Webster 2007

  • Also making my way through Anjali Prabhu's "Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality in Postcolonial Theory": "In Glissant the question of who I am is insignificant when compared to the question of who we are Caribbean Discourse 86." p.

    swoonrocket jms 2009

  • By the time she returned to civilian life after the end of the war, she had risen to the rank of 2nd Subaltern (equivalent to our 2nd Lieutenant).

    Lesson from an old Queen for the Bush Twins Dan 2007

  • By the time she returned to civilian life after the end of the war, she had risen to the rank of 2nd Subaltern (equivalent to our 2nd Lieutenant).

    Archive 2007-01-01 Dan 2007

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