Nissim Mannathukkaren
Professor, Undergraduate Advisor

Email: nmannathukkaren@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2110
Mailing Address:
Marion McCain Building
6135 University Ave.
麻豆传媒
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3H 4R2
Office location:
Room 3038, Marion McCain Building
Education
- BA (Politics, Economics, History) Bangalore University
- MA (Political Science) Jawaharlal Nehru University
- MPhil (Political Science) Jawaharlal Nehru University
- PhD (Political Studies) Queen's University
Research Topics:
- Democracy and democratic backsliding
- Hindu Nationalism
- Post-truth
- Left and communist movements
- Development and democracy
- Modernity
- Politics of popular culture
- Marxist and postcolonial theories
- Kerala and India
Books
Hindu Nationalism in South India: The Rise of Saffron in Kerala, Editor (Routledge, 2024).
Communism, Subaltern Studies, and Postcolonial Theory: The Left in South India (Routledge, 2021).
The 鈥楻upture with Memory鈥: Derrida and the Specters that Haunt Marxism, Navayana, 2006.
Select Articles and Book Chapters
Nissim Mannathukkaren and Drew MacEachern, 鈥淐onstructing a Vishwaguru (World Teacher): Hindu Nationalism, Populism and the Domestic Consumption of Narendra Modi鈥檚 Global Image.鈥 Third World Quarterly, 2023.
鈥樷淓njoying Life鈥: Consumption, Changing Meanings and Social Differentiation in Kerala, India.鈥 Modern Asian Studies, 2023.
Ajay Parasram and Nissim Mannathukkaren, 鈥淚mperial Afterlives: Citizenship and Racial/Caste Fragility in Canada and India.鈥 Citizenship Studies, 2021.
鈥淐ommunalism sans Violence: A Keralan Exceptionalism?鈥 Sikh Formations, Vol. 12, Nos. 2-3, 2016, 223-242.
鈥淜erala: The Antinomy of Hindu Nationalism,鈥 in Hindu Nationalism in South India: Hindutva in Kerala, ed., Nissim Mannathukkaren (London: Routledge), 2024.
鈥淭he Nationalist Imaginary in the Bollywood Sports Film,鈥 in Meena Gopal, and Padma Prakash (eds), Sports Studies in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2022.
鈥淭he 鈥淧eople鈥 and the 鈥淧olitical鈥: Aam Aadmi and the Changing Contours of the Anti-Corruption Movement,鈥 Rise of Saffron Power: Reflections on Indian Politics, ed., Mujib Rahman, New Delhi: Routledge, 2018.
Public Scholarship
Professor Mannathukkaren is a columnist in the Indian press, and he has authored over 125 articles. These have appeared in The Hindu, The Wire, The Telegraph, The Indian Express, Frontline, Outlook, Scroll, The Quint, Firstpost, Deccan Chronicle, The Asian Age, Deccan Herald, Tehelka, Kafila, Kochi Post, The Polis Project, Newsclick, and in Malayalam in Mathrubhumi, Samakalika Malayalam, and Kalakaumudi. His writings have been translated into Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Portuguese, German, French and Italian.
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