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An analysis of the concept “we” and the central role it plays in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. Rather than as a collective to belong to or be excluded from, or as a specific group to be identified with, the book argues that “we” functions as a method.
The concept “we” is central to every field in the interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences, yet it has been overdetermined by the question of who we are, leaving its basic conceptual operations undertheorized.In What is We? Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan argues that we is not a collective to belong to or be excluded from, nor is it a specific group to be identified. Rather, we functions as a method one that organizes inclusion and exclusion, communion and isolation, coercion and liberation, division and incorporation, forgetting and remembering.Across ten linked chapters, the book unfolds social, historical, political, grammatical, linguistic, literary, and personal