Event

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 04:30

Center for the Advanced Study of India Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics 133 South 36th Street, Suite 230 Philadelphia PA 19104-6215

About the Seminar:
This seminar examines the multiple roots of movements for environmental justice in India. It focuses on how different scales of analysis and activism have interacted, and brings out the tensions and contradictions between India’s claims for environmental justice at the scale of international negotiations, on the one hand, and internal struggles for environmental justice that confront state violence, on the other. Throughout, the focus will be on the dense transnational networks that have connected Indian environmentalists with their counterparts elsewhere, and especially in Southeast Asia.

About the Speaker:
Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History, and current chair of the South Asian Studies Council at Yale University. His research focuses on the movements of people and the ecological processes that have connected South and Southeast Asia. His areas of particular interest include environmental history, the history of migration, and the history of public health. He is the recipient of the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History, a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship, and the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities. His work on environmental justice received a “scientific breakthrough of the year” award from the Falling Walls Foundation in 2022. His most recent book is Unruly Waters (Basic Books, 2018), a history of the struggle to understand and control the monsoon in modern South Asia. He is also the author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants (Harvard University Press, 2013), Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and Decolonizing International Health: South and Southeast Asia, 1930-1965 (Palgrave, 2006).