In an effort to shed some light on the impact of the corona virus in South Asia, the Institute for South Asia Studies has launched Covid Conversations: Reflections from South Asia, a new series of virtual programs. Featuring UC Berkeley faculty in conversation with scholars, public intellectuals, health care providers, business leaders, journalists, and others in South Asia, the goal of this program is to understand the impact of the crisis from many different perspectives.
This event features Prof. Raka Ray in conversation with Sociologist Prof. Amita Baviskar on Covid and the deepening of social inequalities
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DATE: Tuesday, May 19, 2020
TIME: 9 am Berkeley | 9:30 pm Delhi | Calculate Your Local Time
This event will also be live streamed on the Institute's FB page: ISASatUCBerkeley
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Raka Ray is Professor of Sociology and South & Southeast Asia Studies, and Dean of the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. Her areas of specialization are gender and feminist theory, globalization, inequality, emerging middle classes, social movements, and postcolonial sociology. Publications include Fields of Protest: Womens Movements in India (University of Minnesota, 1999; and in India, Kali for Women, 2000), Social Movements in India: Poverty, Power, and Politics, co-edited with Mary Katzenstein (Rowman and Littlefeld, 2005), Cultures of Servitude: Modernity, Domesticity and Class in India with Seemin Qayum (Stanford 2009), The Handbook of Gender (OUP, India 2011), Both Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes, co-edited with Amita Baviskar (Routledge, 2011), The Social Life of Gender (Sage 2017) co-edited with Jennifer Carlson and Abigail Andrews, and many articles. Her current project explores the historic relationship between masculinity and capitalism, and the transformations in gender wrought by the decline of traditional fields of work for men. Read more about Prof. Ray HERE.
Amita Baviskar is Head of the Department of Environmental Studies, Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology & Anthropology, at Ashoka University. Prof. Baviskar's research and teaching address the cultural politics of environment and development in rural and urban India. She focuses on the role of social inequality and identities in natural resource conflicts. Currently, she is working on the politics of food and changing agrarian environments in Madhya Pradesh and studying the social experience of air pollution in Delhi. Prof. Baviskar's first book In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts over Development in the Narmada Valley (Oxford University Press, 1995) and other writings explore the themes of resource rights, popular resistance and discourses of environmentalism. Her recent publications include the edited books Elite and Everyman: The Cultural Politics of the Indian Middle Classes (with Raka Ray) and First Garden of the Republic: Nature on the Presidents Estate. In January 2020, she published Uncivil City: Ecology, Equity and the Commons in Delhi. Prof. Baviskar's contributions to developing the field of environmental sociology in India and to the study of social movements have been recognised by her peers. She was awarded the 2005 Malcolm Adiseshiah Award for Distinguished Contributions to Development Studies, the 2008 VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research, and the 2010 Infosys Prize for Social Sciences. After studying Economics and Sociology at the University of Delhi, Prof. Baviskar received a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University. Besides working at the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi, and at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, she has been a visiting scholar at several universities including Stanford, Cornell, Yale, SciencesPo, University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cape Town. Read more about Prof. Baviskar HERE.
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Event made possible with the support of the Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies
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The event is FREE and OPEN to the public.
