Guro Warhuus Samuelsen
Postdoctoral Fellow
- South Asian Studies
- Guro.W.Samuelsen@mf.no
- Office: 472
- Phone number: 22590691
Professional competence areas:
- South Asia
- Indian democracy
- Indian political history
- Hindu nationalism
- Caste and caste politics
- Postcolonial theory
- Ethnographic methods
- Political anthropology
My research focuses on Indian politics and society, particularly the linkages between politics, caste, and religion.
In my doctoral research (UiO, 2018) I studied the local mobilisation, organisation and performances of political activists in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), a Dalit party, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. I showed how in the face of limitations of gender, caste and class, BSP activists build networks and establish their credentials through creatively drawing upon a rich reservoir of performative practices.
I am currently a postdoctoral fellow on the project MYTHOPOLITICS (The Lifetimes of Powerful Stories: Mythopolitics in South Asia, NRC) where I study the use and production of myth in contemporary Indian politics, with an emphasis on Hindu nationalist mobilization and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Selected publications
- Ruud, A. E. & Nielsen, K. B. & Chatterjee, N. & Samuelsen, G. W. (2021). Den vise kongen - eller et politisk mesterstykke?, Asiapunkt Asiapunkt.
Latest scientific publications
- Ruud, A. E. & Nielsen, K. B. & Chatterjee, N. & Samuelsen, G. W. (2021). Den vise kongen - eller et politisk mesterstykke?, Asiapunkt Asiapunkt.