The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
09.12.2024 | 12 - 1:30 PM | 10 Stephens Hall (ISAS Conference Room)
with author Alpa Shah
Join us for a conversation with author Alpa Shah and Dr. Angana P. Chatterji, Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative, and Research Anthropologist at UC Berkeley. Alpa Shah is Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Statutory Professor in Social Anthropology and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford (as of October 2024). Her publications include The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India (William Collins, 2024), Nightmarch: Among India's Revolutionary Guerrillas (2018), Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India (2017), and In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (2010)
Event hosted by CRG's Political Conflict, Gender and People's Rights Initiative and co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies.