Win The University As A Site Of Resistance: Identity And Student Politics Depicted By Gaurav J Pathania Shared As Electronic Format

University as a Site of Resistance analyses massive protests that emerged in the aftermath of Rohith Vemula's death in Hyderabad Central University as well as the Azadi Campaign started by Jawaharlal Nehru University students in

Delhi in.
Taking Osmania University in Hyderabad as a case study, the book provides an ethnographic account of the emergence of one of India's longest student movements the movement for Telangana statehood.
Since its inception in thes to its culmination in the formation of Telangana state in, students at Osmania University played a decisive role, The book discusses protest strategies, methods, and networks among students, It also examines the role played by various caste and subcaste groups and civil society in making the movement a success, The author argues that contemporary identity based student movements are primarily cultural movements as the traditional caste and class analysis becomes redundant to explain such contemporary
collective action.
The book establishes these unique resistances as New Social Movements and claim that these movements contribute to the democratization of institutional spaces, In this context, the volume provides a conceptual debate on contemporary cultural politics among university students,
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