Amita Baviskar Workshop April 23
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JC CHEN
Apr 4, 2012, 5:39:38 PM4/4/12
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Hello All,
Dr. Amita Baviskar has generously offered to lead a discussion about concepts and methods based on her recent work.
The week beforehand, she will circulate a paper titled, .Making the World Class City: Urbanization and Environmental Politics in India.
Time & Place:
Monday, April 23, 2-4pm
IURD Conference Room, 316 Wurster Hall
**Space is limited**
RSVP to get a copy of the paper and to reserve a spot : jiac...@berkeley.edu
Best.
Jia Ching
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Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India), Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black), Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press) and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge in press). Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for distinguished contributions to development studies and the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for the Social Sciences.
Dr. Amita Baviskar has generously offered to lead a discussion about concepts and methods based on her recent work.
The week beforehand, she will circulate a paper titled, .Making the World Class City: Urbanization and Environmental Politics in India.
Time & Place:
Monday, April 23, 2-4pm
IURD Conference Room, 316 Wurster Hall
**Space is limited**
RSVP to get a copy of the paper and to reserve a spot : jiac...@berkeley.edu
Best.
Jia Ching
--
Amita Baviskar is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Her research focuses on the cultural politics of environment and development. Her first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press) discussed the struggle for survival by adivasis in central India against a large dam. Her subsequent work further explores the themes of resource rights, subaltern resistance and cultural identity. She has edited Waterlines: The Penguin Book of River Writings (Penguin India), Waterscapes: The Cultural Politics of a Natural Resource (Permanent Black), Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture and Power (Oxford University Press) and Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray, Routledge in press). Amita Baviskar has taught at the University of Delhi, and has been a visiting scholar at Stanford, Cornell, Yale and the University of California at Berkeley. She is co-editor of the journal Contributions to Indian Sociology. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for distinguished contributions to development studies and the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for the Social Sciences.
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