Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

University of Pretoria

H-index: 22

Africa-South Africa

About Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen, With an exceptional h-index of 22 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Pretoria, specializes in the field of Social movemnets and the political economy of democracy and development in the global South.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Politics From Below: Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

Hindu nationalist statecraft, dog-whistle legislation, and the vigilante state in contemporary India

Marxist Approaches to the Study of Political Participation

Theorizing Law, Social Movements, and State Formation in India

Contesting resources, contesting the nation?

India's pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation

India’s evolving neoliberal regime of dispossession: From the anti-SEZ Movement to the farm law protests

Rising powers, people rising: neo-liberalization and its discontents in the BRICS countries

Alf Gunvald Nilsen Information

University

Position

Department of Sociology

Citations(all)

2163

Citations(since 2020)

1205

Cited By

1603

hIndex(all)

22

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

41

i10Index(since 2020)

34

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University of Pretoria

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Alf Gunvald Nilsen Skills & Research Interests

Social movemnets and the political economy of democracy and development in the global South

Top articles of Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Politics From Below: Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2023/12/1

Hindu nationalist statecraft, dog-whistle legislation, and the vigilante state in contemporary India

kritisk etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

M Sudhir Selvaraj

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2023

Marxist Approaches to the Study of Political Participation

Laurence Cox

Alf G Nilsen

2022/7/1

Theorizing Law, Social Movements, and State Formation in India

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Anand Vaidya

2022/5/1

Contesting resources, contesting the nation?

Contemporary South Asia

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2022/4/3

India's pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2022/11/10

India’s evolving neoliberal regime of dispossession: From the anti-SEZ Movement to the farm law protests

Sociological Bulletin

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2022/10

Rising powers, people rising: neo-liberalization and its discontents in the BRICS countries

Globalizations

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

Karl von Holdt

2019/2/23

Postcolonial social movements

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2021/2/3

Destroying Democracy: neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics

Jane Duncan

Linda Gordon

Gunnett Kaaf

Dale McKinley

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

...

2021

Hindu nationalist statecraft and Modi's authoritarian populism

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2021/12/30

Give James Ferguson a Fish

Development and Change

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2021/1

Love jihad and the governance of gender and intimacy in Hindu nationalist statecraft

Religions

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2021/12/2

India’s trajectories of change, 2004–2019

Across the world, democracy is under threat from the wealth and power that is ever more concen-trated in the hands of the few. But the rule of the few over the many rests on very shaky ground. When we have both the ideas and the power, and when we unite,

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2021/8/1

Subaltern politics in the world’s largest democracy: Utopian horizons versus conjunctural compulsions?

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2020/6/9

Analysing the progressive activism against neo-liberalism

Economic and Political Weekly

Urs Geiser

2020/3/14

Ranajit Guha (1923–)

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

2020/12/29

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Co-Authors

H-index: 21
Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Kenneth Bo Nielsen

Universitetet i Oslo

H-index: 20
Srila Roy

Srila Roy

University of the Witwatersrand

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