[Reader-list] SociologySeminar at SAU: Prof. Ravi Sundaram

[Diya Mehra]

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


Entrapment, Transparency and Technologies of Truth

  

by Prof. Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of
Developing Societies, New Delhi

 

Wednesday, November 12 2014, 2.30 pm, FSI Hall,
South Asian University, Akbar Bhawan, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 

 

The last decade in India has witnessed a growing
number of entrapment events or media 'stings.' Aided by the rapid spread of
technological modernity and low-cost media gadgets like mobile phones, the
media sting has been carried out by print, TV and new media, transparency
campaigners, NGO's, political parties, social movements, and ordinary
individuals. This mode of rendering public comes in the background of the
controversial Aadhaar programme by the government. As entrapment expands from a
police technique to a generalised technology of transparency, it has produced
great strains in existing control systems and traumatic disruptions at all
levels. I use legal and media archives to reflect on the implications of these
new truth strategies for a theory of the contemporary.

 

Prof.
Ravi Sundaram’s work rests at the intersection of the post-colonial city and contemporary
media experiences. He was one of the initiators of the Sarai programme which he
co-directs. He has co-edited the critically acclaimed Sarai Reader series:
The Public Domain (2001), The Cities of Everyday Life (2002),
Shaping Technologies (2003), Crisis Media (2004), and Turbulence
(2006). His other publications include Pirate Modernity: Media Urbanism in
Delhi (2009). Two of his other volumes are No Limits: Media Studies from
India (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Delhi’s Twentieth Century (forthcoming
OUP).