Rumina Sethi
- Affiliation: Panjab University
Rumina Sethi is a Professor in the department of English and Cultural Studies at Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. She is the author of Myths of the Nation: National Identity and Literary Representation (1999). She wrote her doctoral thesis at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a British Academy Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. She was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 2006.
Books by Rumina Sethi
Politics of Postcolonialism
Empire, Nation and Resistance
Rumina Sethi
In a period of vast global restructuring, unrestricted capital has eroded the traditional distinctions between nations and nationhood. In The Politics of Postcolonialism, Rumina Sethi devises a new form of postcolonial studies that makes sense of these dramatic changes. Returning to the origins of the discipline, Sethi identifies it as a tool for political protest and activism among people of the third world. Using a sophisticated mix of spatial theory and local politics, she examines the uneven… (more information)