Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2023
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Imperial music examinations in South Asia: colonial imaginaries, postcolonial realities
Graveyard of clerics: everyday activism in Saudi Arabia
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Playing it the nation’s way: tradition, cosmopolitanism, and the native-masculine of Hindi sports films
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Mother Teresa: the saint and her nation
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Arivu’s Dalit Rap: Cultural Resilience and Harnessing Hip-Hop for Cultural Assertion
Contemporary Voice of Dalit, Ahead of Print.
The emergent pan-Indian phenomenon of Dalit rap is championed by Arivu and other Dalit rappers, such as Ginni Mahi, Sumeet Samos, Duleshwar Tandi and Vedan. They draw from the wellspring of Dalit musical traditions. These musicians are successors to pioneers who utilized music and poetry in the anti-caste struggle such as Jyotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Poykayil Appachan, Bhimrao Kardak, Gaddar and Vilas Ghogre. Arivu’s music utilizes the cultural capital that developed as forms of self-expression and those sustained as cultural labour in the Dalit communities for political activism, sensitization of the public sphere and asserting the Dalit identity. He reimagines art that had been deemed symbols of denigration by the dominant savarna sensibility as those of pride and protest. His lyrics and music generate a discourse of resistance that alters the equations of the casteist public sphere through wider acceptance via new media. Arivu engages in contemporary sociopolitical commentary through rap infused with the stylistics of folk forms such as oppari and gaana. He integrates hip-hop aesthetics and Dalit aesthetics to cure cultural amnesia, challenge epistemic injustice, expose cultural appropriation and assert the Dalit identity. Arivu employs hip-hop in building counter-narratives of Dalit pride, Dalit environmentalism, historical injustice and social justice.
The emergent pan-Indian phenomenon of Dalit rap is championed by Arivu and other Dalit rappers, such as Ginni Mahi, Sumeet Samos, Duleshwar Tandi and Vedan. They draw from the wellspring of Dalit musical traditions. These musicians are successors to pioneers who utilized music and poetry in the anti-caste struggle such as Jyotirao Phule, Savitribai Phule, Poykayil Appachan, Bhimrao Kardak, Gaddar and Vilas Ghogre. Arivu’s music utilizes the cultural capital that developed as forms of self-expression and those sustained as cultural labour in the Dalit communities for political activism, sensitization of the public sphere and asserting the Dalit identity. He reimagines art that had been deemed symbols of denigration by the dominant savarna sensibility as those of pride and protest. His lyrics and music generate a discourse of resistance that alters the equations of the casteist public sphere through wider acceptance via new media. Arivu engages in contemporary sociopolitical commentary through rap infused with the stylistics of folk forms such as oppari and gaana. He integrates hip-hop aesthetics and Dalit aesthetics to cure cultural amnesia, challenge epistemic injustice, expose cultural appropriation and assert the Dalit identity. Arivu employs hip-hop in building counter-narratives of Dalit pride, Dalit environmentalism, historical injustice and social justice.
Conditional environmentalism of right-wing populism in power: ideology and/or opportunities?
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The ethics of immigration enforcement: How far may states go?
Journal of International Political Theory, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 66-87, February 2024.
The ethics of immigration has largely remained on the abstract level, prescribing ideal principles for non-ideal circumstances. One striking example of this tendency is found in the ethics of immigration enforcement. Many authors contend that even though immigration restrictions are legitimate in principle, enforcement renders them illegitimate in practice. In this article I argue, in response to this claim, that if one supports immigration restrictions, one should also support immigration enforcement, even if it entails the use of physical force. Not enforcing immigration restrictions is unjust to law-abiding migrants, undermines the rule of law, and amounts to virtually open borders. In order to illustrate the case, I will draw upon the enforcement of tax law. My argument is that if states are allowed to go to great lengths in the enforcement of tax law, there is no reason why they should not be allowed to go to comparable lengths in the enforcement of immigration law. This analogy will provide us with the moral baseline with which to judge the permissibility of immigration enforcement. The proposal takes the rights of migrants seriously, only the right to immigrate is not one. The article also anticipates some potential objections and responds to them.
The ethics of immigration has largely remained on the abstract level, prescribing ideal principles for non-ideal circumstances. One striking example of this tendency is found in the ethics of immigration enforcement. Many authors contend that even though immigration restrictions are legitimate in principle, enforcement renders them illegitimate in practice. In this article I argue, in response to this claim, that if one supports immigration restrictions, one should also support immigration enforcement, even if it entails the use of physical force. Not enforcing immigration restrictions is unjust to law-abiding migrants, undermines the rule of law, and amounts to virtually open borders. In order to illustrate the case, I will draw upon the enforcement of tax law. My argument is that if states are allowed to go to great lengths in the enforcement of tax law, there is no reason why they should not be allowed to go to comparable lengths in the enforcement of immigration law. This analogy will provide us with the moral baseline with which to judge the permissibility of immigration enforcement. The proposal takes the rights of migrants seriously, only the right to immigrate is not one. The article also anticipates some potential objections and responds to them.
Exploring the negative impacts of artificial intelligence in government: the dark side of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This research proposes a framework for the negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in government by classifying 14 topics of its dark side into five socio technical categories. The framework is based on a systematic literature review and highlights that the dark side is predominantly driven by political, legal, and institutional aspects, but it is also influenced by data and technology. Lack of understanding of AI outcomes, biases, and errors, as well as manipulation of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines are contributing factors. The public sector should create knowledge about AI from an ethical, inclusive, and strategic perspective, involving experts from different areas.Points for practitionersGovernment officials and other decision-makers should be aware of the potential benefits of artificial intelligence, but also of the dark side, and try to avoid those potential negative consequences.
This research proposes a framework for the negative impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in government by classifying 14 topics of its dark side into five socio technical categories. The framework is based on a systematic literature review and highlights that the dark side is predominantly driven by political, legal, and institutional aspects, but it is also influenced by data and technology. Lack of understanding of AI outcomes, biases, and errors, as well as manipulation of intelligent algorithms and cognitive machines are contributing factors. The public sector should create knowledge about AI from an ethical, inclusive, and strategic perspective, involving experts from different areas.Points for practitionersGovernment officials and other decision-makers should be aware of the potential benefits of artificial intelligence, but also of the dark side, and try to avoid those potential negative consequences.
Supportive leadership and job satisfaction at the European Court of Auditors
International Review of Administrative Sciences, Ahead of Print.
This article draws on theories of person–organisation fit and leadership behaviour to explore how supportive leadership is related to communication practices, collaborative working practices and performance management practices and how these three practices, in turn, relate to public servants’ job satisfaction. A model of supportive leadership's direct and indirect effects on employees’ job satisfaction is empirically tested using responses to a survey administered to the European Court of Auditors (ECA) staff. The findings show that communication and collaborative working practices mediate the relationship between supportive leadership and job satisfaction. Supportive leadership positively relates to performance management practices, but these practices have no significant association with job satisfaction. While addressing a theoretical void in the field, this study also makes an empirical contribution by unveiling how a professional European public audit institution manages its human resources and the means it uses.Points for practitioners Elaborating on the relationship between leadership behaviour and person–organisation fit in the context of a supranational public entity helps to explain what motivates public servants.The relationship between supportive leadership and public servants’ job satisfaction is mediated by two organisational practices: communication and collaborative working practices.Transparent performance management practices do not mediate the relationship between supportive leadership and job satisfaction.Public sector organisations with professional staff can centre their human resource management around effective communication and collaborative working practices to ensure greater employee satisfaction in the workplace.
This article draws on theories of person–organisation fit and leadership behaviour to explore how supportive leadership is related to communication practices, collaborative working practices and performance management practices and how these three practices, in turn, relate to public servants’ job satisfaction. A model of supportive leadership's direct and indirect effects on employees’ job satisfaction is empirically tested using responses to a survey administered to the European Court of Auditors (ECA) staff. The findings show that communication and collaborative working practices mediate the relationship between supportive leadership and job satisfaction. Supportive leadership positively relates to performance management practices, but these practices have no significant association with job satisfaction. While addressing a theoretical void in the field, this study also makes an empirical contribution by unveiling how a professional European public audit institution manages its human resources and the means it uses.Points for practitioners Elaborating on the relationship between leadership behaviour and person–organisation fit in the context of a supranational public entity helps to explain what motivates public servants.The relationship between supportive leadership and public servants’ job satisfaction is mediated by two organisational practices: communication and collaborative working practices.Transparent performance management practices do not mediate the relationship between supportive leadership and job satisfaction.Public sector organisations with professional staff can centre their human resource management around effective communication and collaborative working practices to ensure greater employee satisfaction in the workplace.