I am studying cultural studies in Colombia (not COlumbia) and the way you summarize the history of the subaltern group as a group outside of the hegemonic order helped me to understand it better. Thank you!
Professor, thank you. Your turnaround time is so fast. I really love this series that you’re creating. I studied international development and critical theory and sociolinguistics in college 15 years ago but have since become a psychoanalyst. As I’m re-experiencing these concepts, I hope to make use of them in my own analytic writing.
Greetings from Manila! Thanks for making this intelligible. I tried to study this by reading up on my own and I confess to being confused by the jargon that surrounds academic writing. I would like to apply this concept to the characterization of traditional healers, being very powerful agents in their own milieu but having no political voice in the national health care system. Thanks again. I am learning a lot from your videos.
i cannot begin to explain how much this helped! the readings are extremely complex and often lost my attention but this was crisp and clear. Loved it!!
The most debatable and questionable topic was just caked so simply . Its a pleasure reading from such intellectual professors ❤. Looking forward to the other videos . I subscribed your channel just now to get the other notifications❤
Your overview of subalternity was very useful. I'm theorizing resilience and agency with Black queer communities. Do you have a perspective on subalternity and intersectionality as it pertains to race, gender, and sexuality? Is there an argument to be made for subalternity within Black queer communities which meet many of the criteria discussed in the U.S. and beyond (especially across Africa and the West Indies)?
Thanks, Professor. This video really highlighted the misuse of the term. I am wondering if the privilege of an immigrant within the new immigration criteria of higher education and status in Canada but, placed within the category of visible minority contribute to a subaltern state?
Thanks for the illuminating lecture, professor. I want to understand if Dalits in India can be referred to as the subaltern? If one assumes so, how do we understand Dalits being a part of the caste system and thereby within hegemony(according to some theorists, the caste system exists not only because of the Brahmins but also because Dalits do not have caste consciousness)?
Thank you. Obviously I cannot have a very learned opinion on politics of caste, but I would certainly consider Dalits as a subaltern group. You can find more on this in the works of Subaltern Studies Collective and in BR Ambedkar’s work.
Hi sir... I'm big fan of you... I had seen all your lectures on subaltern... Im history student from pune university..I want to do phd in subaltern...bt subaltern is very vast concept... Can u plz suggest me which area i should choose?
Thank you Professor for this illuminating lecture on Subaltern studies. I had been struggling with this subject of study till I came across this video. My question is, if it is true that the voices of the subaltern can be heard in their political, social and cultural actions, can we say that Indian Muslims have become the new Subaltern? Although they can take part in democratic politics, their voices have been silenced and their opinions not sought. So, can we consider their silence for the Subaltern cannot speak?
It’s totally up to you how you describe them. I would not consider them as a monolithic group. Please read more on the subject to see how you can articulate your thoughts on it.
Thank you, Sir! for your informative lecture that impressed and enriched me. Two question to you- Taking the Indian Social context, a person was brought up in the depressed class, economically poor, lack of social status. But he is very intelligent in his subject as an academician, has got job with handsome salary. Now, is this person being considered as a subaltern group? If he writes any article related to subaltern studies, could you think that this article is from subaltern approach.
I think a precondition for any subaltern position, a la Spivak, is that hector she cannot speak. So, if someone from a subaltern group has risen socially or politically then they may not be in a subaltern position but they can still share their experiences and work in solidarity with the subaltern communities.
Thank you professor for this precise video . Can anyone suggest me which is the core text to understand Ranajith Guha 's ideology and theory regarding Subaltern studies .
After decolonization, those colonized who shifted from their country to the colonizers country to have a better life there and however faced discrimination there and had no voice or representation in those countries like England and France. Can those immigrants be called subalterns?
It will depend on their class. I would not consider them subalterns. Only those with no political power and those without access to legal rights would constitute a subaltern class.
I guess it depends on the work of scholars who consider this an important issue and then build knowledge about it and publish research on it. I highly recommend Ranajit Guha’s work on it.
You are welcome. You can watch my entire series on Spivak’s Can the Subaltern Speak. But also the videos are meant to be a path to further reading and learning.
Sir, women are shown marginalized and voiceless in partition literature written even today in India and Pakistan. So can these women be considered subaltern ?
Thank you. I suggest read Spivak carefully. Not everyone who is marginalized is a subaltern nor are there any natural subalterns. So, it always depends upon the political and social agency available to a group.
Hi.. As I told last time that I am a ph.d scholar in university of the Punjab Lahore Pakistan. We are studying "Subaltern studies ". Can you please suggest me any wonderful, noval writing related Subaltern studies for book review. Because I wanna do review on such newly published books so that I might epublish tha review in future.
Thank you. I am not sure of new books. I suggest take a look at what is being published in Pakistan. Subaltern studies is a sub field in postcolonial studies but it is also one of the most complex concepts and I am not sure if any novel published in English by many of our bourgeois authors would qualify as a subaltern text.
Can you please do a longer lecture in can the sabultern speak in relation to women, can sabultern and intersectionality intersect? Do you think sabultern women can unsabulternise their situations or will remain sabultern.
Yes, I am planning a full lecture on the original Spivak essay, her revised version, and then it’s implications for the present. Not sure when yet, but it is on my list:)
@@masoodraja I can not express how helpful your lecture are! I would have been lost without your insight and great explination, I'm doing an MA in Sociology and your teaching has been paramount. So thank you very much and maybe will have a chance to meet in the near future.
Good lecture. But then according to the definition--- in a democracy with universal franchise, no one should belong to the subaltern(because here everyone has the right to vote and freedom of speech)?
I don’t think a democracy automatically erases the class differences. The purpose is to understand these differences and then see how to eliminate them. I highly recommend a careful reading of Gramsci’s The Southern Question.