'The Shimmering Land: Mobility & Rootedness in Adivasi India' a talk by Kaushik Ghosh at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15pm on 1st March 2014
Time : 6:15 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
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Event Description : 'The Shimmering Land: Mobility & Rootedness in Adivasi India' a talk by Kaushik Ghosh.
“Migration” and “Rootedness” typically have appeared as a fundamental opposition in the long arc of modern imaginaries. The one cancels the other. The body of the adivasi person poses an interesting challenge to this form of “state philosophy” based on representation and identity. In India, over the last two centuries, the adivasi body has simultaneously been the most “migratory” and yet the most “rooted.” The “adivasi” or “indigenous” has been the staple “migrant laborer” who has enabled each new cycle of capital accumulation while clearly being the most visible “actor” in the vast archive of resistance to territorial displacement and in the reaffirmation of a persistent art of attending to place and the land. How does one grasp this simultaneity? Beyond the obvious subversion of dualist thinking, it reignites our imagination of land and Identity. How does one inhabit the world in this simultaneity? In his Talk, Kaushik Ghosh will take a moment of such adivasi inhibition of the world and try to map an emerging sense of a more dense and complex sense of territory, land and the issue of sovereignty.
Language: English
About the Speaker : Kaushik Ghosh taught cultural anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Trained at Princeton University, he is broadly interested in the connections between the ecological and the post-colonial and has conducted long term historical and ethnographic research on adivasi struggles against displacement. His articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology and Subaltern Studies; He is currently completing an experimental ethnography on adivasi inhabitation of place and a book of essays on postcolonial biopolitics. He has been one of the editors of Cultural Dynamics and was a member of the editorial board of Cultural Anthropology.
Organization: Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Note : Call 011-24619431 (IIC) to re-confirm any last minute change or cancellation of the event.
Place : Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 40 Max Mueller Marg, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations - 'Khan Market(Vilolet Line)' & 'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)'
Area : Lodhi Road Area Events
Event Description : 'The Shimmering Land: Mobility & Rootedness in Adivasi India' a talk by Kaushik Ghosh.
“Migration” and “Rootedness” typically have appeared as a fundamental opposition in the long arc of modern imaginaries. The one cancels the other. The body of the adivasi person poses an interesting challenge to this form of “state philosophy” based on representation and identity. In India, over the last two centuries, the adivasi body has simultaneously been the most “migratory” and yet the most “rooted.” The “adivasi” or “indigenous” has been the staple “migrant laborer” who has enabled each new cycle of capital accumulation while clearly being the most visible “actor” in the vast archive of resistance to territorial displacement and in the reaffirmation of a persistent art of attending to place and the land. How does one grasp this simultaneity? Beyond the obvious subversion of dualist thinking, it reignites our imagination of land and Identity. How does one inhabit the world in this simultaneity? In his Talk, Kaushik Ghosh will take a moment of such adivasi inhibition of the world and try to map an emerging sense of a more dense and complex sense of territory, land and the issue of sovereignty.
Language: English
About the Speaker : Kaushik Ghosh taught cultural anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Trained at Princeton University, he is broadly interested in the connections between the ecological and the post-colonial and has conducted long term historical and ethnographic research on adivasi struggles against displacement. His articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology and Subaltern Studies; He is currently completing an experimental ethnography on adivasi inhabitation of place and a book of essays on postcolonial biopolitics. He has been one of the editors of Cultural Dynamics and was a member of the editorial board of Cultural Anthropology.
Organization: Shiv Nadar University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Shiv Nadar University is an international, multi-disciplinary research-led university. Located on a 286-acre campus in India's National Capital Region, the University offers undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral programs in a range of disciplines in engineering, humanities and social sciences, natural sciences, communication, business, and education. SNU is a private philanthropic institution established by the Shiv Nadar Foundation in 2011 through an act of the State of Uttar Pradesh.
'The Shimmering Land: Mobility & Rootedness in Adivasi India' a talk by Kaushik Ghosh at Conference Room - II, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), Lodhi Estate > 6:15pm on 1st March 2014
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