Check out The Immanent Frame‘s ten most-read essays of 2022! This year’s essays were featured in the forums “Out there:…
Most-Read Essays of 2022
Year: 2022
Understanding and undoing the far right: India and beyond
Rather than speak of the “right,” we in this concluding essay urge all to call these projects what they actually…
Normalizing nationalism through social media in transnational Jain communities
On August 4, 2022, in the run-up to India celebrating its seventy-fifth Independence Day, the Shrimad Rajchandra Mission (SRMD), a…
The neocolonial futurism of US Hindutva
US Hindu nationalist groups capitalize on anti-racist discursive models, decolonial language, as well as the liberatory structures of Black and…
Sacred space and the (post)secular state
“There are some artifacts that are symbols of nations and states. One of these symbols is the Ayasofya,” said Turkish…
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
As India increasingly gets synonymized as Hindu, and academic-activist works interrogate Hindutva, we must investigate the pre- and post-9/11 impact…
Hindu fragility and the politics of mimicry in North America
By examining contemporary debates around caste in the United States, we illustrate how Hindu fragility—an expression of Hindu supremacist logics—is…
The pastor, the swarm, and the movement
A finer understanding of how the far right organizes is essential to avoiding inadequate comparisons to past experiences and devising…
Hindutva appropriations of indigeneity
Claiming indigeneity for the politically powerful, Hindu nationalists seek to disempower already precarious marginalized communities and use the implausible projection…
Online Hindutva as a global right-wing counterpublic
Rooted in a politics of grievance in each setting, different right-wing counterpublics frequently borrow themes, idioms, and vocabularies from one…