Politics, Development and Social Change in Contemporary India
In response to the growing interest in India in the era of globalisation, the Department of Culture, Politics and Society of the University of Turin is pleased to announce the fifth edition of the Summer School on “Politics, Development and Social Change in Contemporary India”.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, the School provides students with an extraordinary opportunity to analyse key political, social and cultural issues of contemporary India.
Important recent trajectories of social change – as well as continuity – will be explored, encouraging critical reflection among students.
This year’s programme will focus on Adivasi communities in contemporary India: identities, resistance and environment. The working language is English and participation is open to students and professionals willing to broaden their knowledge and explore crucial dynamics currently unfolding in the subcontinent.
Timetable
Introductory Lecture
What the Adivasis of eastern India can tell us about the global environmental crises
GROUP DISCUSSION
University of Sussex
Evolving Adivasi, tribal and indigenous identities in India
GROUP DISCUSSION
University of Sussex
Understanding tribal social structure and knowledge systems
GROUP DISCUSSION
University of Sussex
Indigenous routes: migration and food sovereignty in northeast India
GROUP DISCUSSION
Stockholm University
Making insurgent citizenship in India’s Bhil heartland
GROUP DISCUSSION
University of Pretoria
Adivasi art: from "primitive" to contemporary
GROUP DISCUSSION
Université de Lausanne
University of Amsterdam
Adivasis and the Naxalite Insurgency
GROUP DISCUSSION
London School of Economics and Political Science
Roundtable
Contemporary Adivasi writing in India: paradigms, issues and perspectives
GROUP DISCUSSION
Hansda Parimal
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
Ganga Sahay Meena
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Lecturers talks
Alice Tilche
University of Leicester
Vinita Damodaran
University of Sussex
Alf Gunvald Nilsen
University of Pretoria
Alpa Shah
London School of Economics and Political Science
Bengt G. Karlsson
Stockholm University
Felix Padel
University of Sussex
Ganga Sahay Meena
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Luisa Steur
University of Amsterdam
Raphaël Rousseleau
Université de Lausanne
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