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[Sadan Jha]

URBAN CULTURES AND POLITICS: Urban Experiences



This seminar series is an initiative to establish a critical dialogue with current academic research on urban experiences and media politics in South Asia. 

We begin the series this year with an exploration of regimes of urban 
sexuality. Scheduled between December 2004 and February 2005, six lectures will focus on the field of the urban in contemporary as well as historical settings.



Thursday, 2 December 2004; 3.30 P.M.



Sanjay Srivastava, " Ticketless Travel, or, ‘Doctor, Patient Go Missing 
Despite Delhi Police’s All Night Vigil’: Sexuality, Urban Print Culture, 
and its Publics."


Sanjay Srivastava teaches anthropology, cultural studies and social theory at 
Deakin University, Melbourne. He is currently affiliated with CSDS. His 
publications include 'Constructing Post-colonial India: National Character and 
the Doon School', 'Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age' (co-authored), 
and 'Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in 
South Asia' (contributing editor). His current research focuses on urban 
spaces and cultures.