[Reader-list] Talk by Pratyoush Onta at SAU

[Diya Mehra]

The Department of Sociology, South Asian University  cordially invites you to a seminar:

 

NGOs in Academic
Research: Towards an Adequate Description

 

by Dr. Pratyoush Onta

Martin Chautari,
Kathmandu

 

Tuesday, October 2013,
2.30 pm, FSI Hall, Ground Floor, South Asian University, Akbar Bhawan,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110021

 

Abstract: 
Increasingly, institutions
other than traditional colleges and universities are involved in knowledge
production and distribution. Many such institutions are now organized in the
form of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). In this talk, I argue that a sub-category
of NGOs which can be called ‘academic NGOs’ have emerged in recent years. Using
examples from Nepal, I suggest that academic NGOs have become one of the most
important institutional sites of knowledge production in the countries of the
global South.