ICGC Colloquium Series

Pranav will talk about how assertion of land tenure for Van Gujjar pastoralists through use of digital technologies must be perceived as an aspirational citizenship claim within the forests of Uttarakhand.

Snigdha will talk about how democratizing finance, formally known as “financial inclusion,” became both the cause and consequence of platform finance in India.

Samira Chatila will talk about whether high levels of formal education lead to human capital development.

Karina Horsti will talk about the complex ways in which relatives of those who died at Europe’s borders creatively navigate the afterlives of these deaths.

Jules Marzec will examine the femicide of María Belén Bernal's 2022 murder in Ecuador and the subsequent state response characterized by a strategic instrumentalization of women.

Nada Mohamed will talk about how oppressed persons sometimes perpetuate epistemic harms on each other, even within progressive spaces through three forms of silencing. 

Harsha Anantharaman will present his ethnographic research exploring the convergence of caste and capital logics in the context of urban India’s transforming infrastructural labor regimes of Solid-Waste-Management (SWM).

Berkant Caglar will talk about how limiting the public visibility of queer dissent and its rightful activism are emerging as an important political problem for the Turkish state. 

Heather Randell will speak about how mothers and daughters experience and respond to displacement due to the construction of the Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amazon.

Julie Pelletier will offer an an analysis of the MDP in Indigenous Development approach as well as a brief discussion of projects undertaken by MDP student development practitioners, offering a different look at development and development practitioners. 

Maurits van Bever Donker will speak on the relationship between the human, adequacy, and rights. 

Dhrijyoti's research views islands as precarious zones of survival that are potentially generative by nature and constitutive of a constant anarchic disorder of enmeshed alliances between human dwellers and non-human agents. He is an Assamese writer and a translator. Currently, he is working on two book-length translation projects based around riverine lives in the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, India.