[Reader-list] reader-list Digest, Vol 126, Issue 19

[Arka Mukhopadhyay]

And this is why academia and academics truly disgust me.

On Sunday, 26 January 2014, <reader-list-request at mail.sarai.net> wrote:
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>    1. SociologySeminar at SAU: Sarada Balagopalan (Diya Mehra)
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> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:45:54 +0000
> From: Diya Mehra <diyamehra at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: [Reader-list] SociologySeminar at SAU: Sarada Balagopalan
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> The Department of Sociology, South Asian University cordially invites
> you to a seminar:
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> Inhabiting ?Childhood? in Postcolonial India
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> By Sarada Balagopalan, Associate Professor, Centre for
> the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
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> Wednesday, 29 January 2014, 2.30
> pm, FSI Hall, Ground Floor, South Asian University, Akbar Bhavan,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi
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> This paper discusses street children?s lives in
> relation to the local materialization of a global politics of
?childhood?. The
> street child --at once ?victim? and yet highly ?agential?-- signals a
certain
> messiness around assumed vectors of age, care, ability and innocence that
this
> normative ?childhood? register works with. Through capturing a moment in
which
> global, national and local efforts combined to improve and transform these
> children?s lives through school enrollment and new discourses of
?children's
> rights?, this paper focuses on the complexity and contemporaneity of their
> extensive practices of dwelling generated by the exigencies of survival
within
> postcolonial ?development?. It considers whether these practices of
dwelling -
> which can neither be dissolved through a ?cultural? reading of these
children?s
> lives nor resolved within a more technocratic policy norm ? might be a
> productive opening to re-thinking ?childhood? more generally.
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