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05 VOLUME 03 | ISSUE 01 | SUMMER 2015 | Democracy and its Discontents

Edited by Prasad Pannian

CONTENTS
/Prasad Pannian Introduction: Democracy and its Discontents /Arif Dirlik The
Perils of Democracy /Kenneth Surin The Democratic Void in the Countries of
the North Atlantic /Patrick Provost-Smith Democracy in a Time of War: The
Figure of the Religious Extremist /Jibu Mathew George Democracy, Higher
Education, and the Knowledge-Question in the Humanities /Probal Dasgupta
Dialects, Literature and Thin Description /Clayton Crockett Sketch for a Political
Theology of In-debted Nations /S. Elika Assumi, Basil Darlong Diengdoh
Through the Looking Glass of Insurgency in Nagaland: A Discursive Construction
of the Northeast /Mohamed Shafeeq K Translating the Past: Minor Writing as
Democratization /David Allen Philosophy & Politics in the Classroom Today
/Akeel Bilgrami Democracy and Disenchantment /Veena S. Individual Liberty
and Structures of Oppression

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