CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
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Seeing Like a Business: Privatized Service Delivery and Trust in Urban Pakistan
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Fri, Mar 10, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm
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S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St.
Erum Haider is Assistant Professor in Political Science and Environmental Studies at the College of Wooster. She received her PhD from Georgetown University, Department of Government, and is the recipient of the USIP Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar pre-doctoral fellowship for[…]
More InfoThe Tragedy and the Paradox: State Building in South Asia since 1526
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Fri, Feb 24, 2023 from 02:00pm — 04:00pm
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Rm S153, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St
Alexander Lee earned his PhD from Stanford and his BA from Yale. His research focuses on the factors governing the success or failure of political institutions. In particular, his work focuses on the historical evolution of state capacity, the political economy of South Asia, the causes and consequences of identity politics, and bureaucratic politics[…]
More InfoContemporary Practices in South Asia #3 | Sanjeev Vidyarthi
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Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 06:30pm
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S153, CGIS South
1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge
Join us for a conversation with Sanjeev Vidyarthi, a professor of city design in the department of urban planning and policy at the University of Illinois Chicago. He will discuss interim findings from an ongoing, long-term project studying who is building cities in contemporary India and how. Employing a pragmatist approach, the talk will share broad outlines of a sub-project that seeks to explore the nature and scope of practices leading architects and urban designers are innovating to engage with the rapidly growing ranks of India’s city-builders such as state institutions, public agencies, emergent entrepreneurs, real-estate developers, place-based communities, moneyed individuals, and religious movements.
More Info“To know or not to know”: Cleansing the dead
Khyati Tripathi is a death scholar from India and, through her work, she tries to bring together events, emotions and practices related to death to explore the psychosocial significance and intricate connections between them. She is interested in exploring the ‘sacred’ in death and the pure and impure aspects of it. Her work is based at the intersection of social anthropology, psychology, and psychoanalysis.
More InfoSeeking Pictorial Justice: Do Pakistani English textbooks teach only English?
Liaquat Channa is an educational linguist and interested in areas such as language and education, hidden curriculum and language textbooks,and, English as a/the medium of instruction explored through qualitative and mixed methods approaches in postcolonial contexts in general and Pakistan in particular.
More InfoHousing as welfare: How subsidized homeownership generates social mobility through wealth, voice, and dignity in India
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Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 02:00pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tanu Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University. She completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2020.
More InfoProperty, Power, and Women: Positive and Perverse Consequences of Indian Reforms for Gender Equality
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Fri, Nov 8, 2019 from 02:30pm — 04:00pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Can political representation help women upend entrenched systems of power? Property and Power, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, finds evidence that quotas improve women’s ability to claim fundamental economic rights. Yet, greater voice is costly, and whether women experience benefits or backlash will depend on individual bargaining power at the time a woman is elected. […]
More InfoTools for Urban Conservation in Lucknow: Advocacy, Politics, and Civic Engagement
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Mon, Oct 28, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Urban conservation is often a pressing challenge in historic Indian cities experiencing the pressures of development. Many cities, often lacking any viable local-level policy and enforcement, have resorted to alternative tools, often citizen-led, to accomplish the goal of conservation. This seminar will explore the tools of advocacy, politics, and civic engagement through recent examples from the city of Lucknow in northern India.
More InfoThe Fears Have Gone Away: Exploring the Roots of Insurgent Citizenship in India’s Bhil Heartland
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Tue, Sep 24, 2019 from 06:00pm — 07:30pm
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CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
ADDRESS
CGIS South, S153
Harvard University
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
In India, subaltern groups must resort to the universalizing vocabulary of citizenship in order to stake claims for redistribution and recognition. But on what basis do they do this — especially under severe coercion? Alf Nilsen, Professor of Sociology at the University of Pretoria, will explore this question by investigating movement patterns in the Bhil heartland of western India, where Adivasi communities have organized and mobilized against the tyranny of the local state.
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