Power, Movement, and Memory


While power permeates every facet of human society, it also provides the ground for negotiation. The movement of human and non-human entities (ideas, values, goods, lifeforms and so on), and the production of memories have been a result of, and a challenge to, society’s existing power dynamics. Memory, as a mediated outcome of power and movement, holds central agency for revisiting and reconstructing the past and identities. Going beyond disciplinary conventions, this GRM wishes to explore the functioning of power, movements, and memories as mutually distinct issues and/or in connection with each other.

As an interdisciplinary department of the humanities and social sciences, offering opportunities in the disciplines of Economics, English, Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, Sociology, History, Archaeology, Political Science, and Developmental Studies, we invite papers related to, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, the following sub-themes:

Subthemes

      • Migration, Refuge, Diaspora and Syncretism
      • Development, Displacement and Rehabilitation
      • Labour Movements and Cooperative Movements
      • Memories of Crimes Against Humanity
      • Soft Powers and Cultural Exports
      • Geography of Trade
      • Paradigm Shifts in Economic, Sociological and Scientific Thought
      • Local Governance and Social Hierarchies
      • Education and Mobility
      • Collective Behaviour, Motivation and Rationality in Social Movements
      • Cultural Memory, Identity, Heritage and Preservation
      • Public Goods, Policies and Social Transformations
      • Gender, Sexuality and Power
      • Inequality, Vulnerability, Poverty and Climate Change
      • Memory Studies
      • Economics of Social Change and Social Mobility
      • Movement and Material Culture
      • Historical Revisionism and Cultural Reconstruction
      • Knowledge Production, Representation, Social Justice and Epistemic Justice
      • Power and Pedagogy
      • Subcultural and Countercultural Movements
      • Trauma, Healing, Resilience and Reconciliation
      • Environment, Encroachment and Displacement
      • Global Hegemonies and Emergent Multipolarities
      • Indigenous Movements, Caste Mobilization and Electoral Politics
      • Oral Histories, Story Telling and Collective Memories
      • Urban Geography, Movement and Transformation
      • Psychology of Poverty
      • Information Asymmetries in Welfare Delivery
      • Feminist Economics and Heterodox Economics
      • Neocolonial Powers and Post-Colonial Movements
      • Linguistic Marginalization, Documentation, Preservation and Revitalization
      • Power, Identity and Resistance in Onomatology
      • Language Policy, Linguistic Movements and Statecraft
      • Historical Dialectics and Social Transformations
      • Ethics of Political Resistance and Collective Action
      • Ritual Power, Sacred Spaces, Power and Authority
      • Conceptions of State Power in Indian Philosophy