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The Power of Dialogue
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I'm thinking about you, MFA Thesis Paper, 2022
No full textPrerna. (2022). I'm thinking about you, MFA Thesis Paper, 2022. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228396
“Workers’ Way”: Moments of Labor in Late 1940s Calcutta
No full textAbstract The postwar situation in Calcutta was part of the picture of seething anticolonial popular and labor discontent in the Indian subcontinent; this was perhaps the most radical, the most potent, period for the subalterns in the country. However, this complex historical moment with varied, competing, shifting, overlapping tendencies has been reduced and flattened in the historiography. It is as if the twin events of partition and independence were inevitable. City workers, especially the port workers, emerged as a visible and powerful presence in the anticolonial movement. By reconstructing the arena of collective action—focusing on the context, the modalities, and the social content of the major strikes involving port labor or “moments” of radicalism, this article seeks to recover the role of workers in decolonization. It will show how workers contested and outstepped the politics of nationalist leadership(s) and communalism in significant ways multiple times, placing a politics of labor rights and entitlements, of struggles against exploitation and poverty on the postcolonial agenda. The article argues that a “workers’ way,” an alternative even if hazily defined pathway of decolonization, in which new citizens would not be divided on religious lines, was concretized and became a part of the political imagination of the time. The port strike of 1947, a swing-back from the deadliest episode of communal riots, in a matter of months, signifies the extreme fluidity of the political situation in the late 1940s, which is unsurprisingly missed in the conventional historiography. The article finally highlights the limits of postwar radicalism: the “historic” port workers’ strike was ultimately channelized as a legal industrial dispute by the communist leadership of port workers’ union. With their key demand of parity of wages and allowances with government employees, port workers staked their claim to labor institutions offered by the postcolonial state, which was to cordon large sections of them as a privileged layer from rest of the laboring classes in the city. “ To articulate the past historically. . . . It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger. . . . Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious .” Walter Benjamin, Theses on the Philosophy of History
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Constructing Truth in The Waste Land
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Supports and Barriers to Establishing and Sustaining Service Learning Partnerships to Facilitate Student Learning
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Date Presented 3/30/2017
This qualitative study investigated the supports and barriers to establishing and sustaining community-based service learning projects. Understanding the factors that affect use of service learning as an educational tool is essential to establishing best practices in occupational therapy education.
Primary Author and Speaker: Julie Watson
Additional Authors and Speakers: Kayla Collins, Inti Marazita, Prerna Poojary</jats:p
Book Review: Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
No full text Prerna Singh, How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. New Delhi: Cambridge University Press. 2016. 332 pages. ₹495. </jats:p
Prerna Singh (2015), How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India
No full textLeisering L. Prerna Singh (2015), How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. JOURNAL OF SOCIAL POLICY. 2018;47(1):204-208
A new species of the genus Paracypria (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Cypridoidea) from the Fiji Islands
No full textChand, Prerna, Kamiya, Takahiro (2016): A new species of the genus Paracypria (Crustacea: Ostracoda: Cypridoidea) from the Fiji Islands. Zootaxa 4158 (3): 433-442, DOI: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4158.3.
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