In the land where the regime dictates what academics will read, what they will write, and where they will write, bureaucrats in universities serve as gatekeepers of the regime. With their bureaucratic tools, often decorated in neoliberal logics of risk management and performance optimization, managers define the boundaries of thought for academics, defining the limits and terrains of thought, legitimizing state control in managerial logics. Bureaucrats ask questions such as: How are these books relevant to your research? How do the books contribute to your research program? The definition of the research program of an academic based on bureaucratic rationality becomes the basis for identifying the relevance of reading lists to research programs. Once the appropriate reading list to be read from is defined, the regime can then exert its control on the academic for deviating from the reading list. The tools of the manager are also the tools of the regime. Consider for insta
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.