Wednesday 7 November 2012
5 – 7 pm
Sciences Po
Salle B404
56, rue des Saints-Pères
75007 Paris
SEMINAR
Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws:
Bourgeois Environmentalists and the Battle for Delhi’s Streets
Speaker
Amita Baviskar (Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi)
Amita Baviskar is associate professor at the Institute of Economic Growth (Delhi). She is interested in the cultural politics of environment and development, with a focus on social inequality and natural resource conflicts, environmental and indigenous social movements, anthropology of development, urban environmental politics, state formation and the environment in south Asia. She recently published Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, 2011, Routledge, (with Raka Ray).
Discussant
Jules Naudet (Centre Maurice Halbwachs, ERIS)
Jules Naudet is postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (CNRS/EHESS/ENS). He is interested in upward social mobility and inequalities in a comparative perspective (France, India, US). He recently published Entrer dans l’élite, 2012, PUF.
Open seminar. No registration needed
Contact: Francesca.artioli@sciences-po.org