The university has congratulated the second-year BA LLB (Hons) student Manhar Bansal for winning the SHA President’s Award for Student Scholarship, read here to know the details.
Manhar Bansal, a second-year BA LLB (Hons) student at NLSIU has won the SHA President’s Award for Student Scholarship. His paper titled “Of Powerful Particulars and Contingent Universals: Freedom, Feminism and Engaged Universalism” was awarded first place in the undergraduate division of the competition.
“This was a revised and developed version of my term paper that I wrote for Sociology (taught by Dr Atreyee Majumder) in the second term of my first year at NLSIU. I was invited to receive the award and read a portion of the essay at the SHA awards ceremony at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Seattle in November which I attended virtually,” said Manhar.
The paper delves into the universal-particular debate using Anna Tsing’s much-acclaimed monograph Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005). I try and sketch out a framework of “engaged universalism” in the essay. I argue that a theory of engaged universalism must simultaneously view the particular as powerful and the universal as contingent, he added.
About SHA President’s Award
This is an annual award given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA), a section of the American Anthropological Association. It is presented in the undergraduate and graduate categories.
The SHA mentions the award is based on “the extent to which papers explore what anthropology reveals about being human; capture the ways in which people create and/or transform meaning in various contexts; address the relationships between researcher and subjects; challenge conventional academic writing through alternative literary genres, and make anthropology accessible to the general public”.
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