[act-ma] Forest Notes on the Maoists - Sunday April 1, 2012 @MIT 3-133

[Paul Malachi Penchalapadu]

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You are invited to a seminar by Professor Alpa Shah*

*Forest Notes on the Maoists*
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Time: 4:00PM
Room: MIT 3-133

Bio: Alpa Shah is a social anthropologist at Goldsmiths, University of
London. She is interested in inequality and efforts to address it. She has
drawn on more than a decade of field research in India to explore how
marginalised people experience indigenous rights activism and Adivasi
politics; poverty, the developmental state and corruption; seasonal casual
labour migration and transformations in the agrarian economy; the state,
education and positive action policies; and the radical left and
emancipatory politics, notably the Maoist movement. She is the author of *In
the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and
Insurgency in Jharkhand,
India*<http://www.dukeupress.edu/Catalog/ViewProduct.php?productid=16856>.
Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.

Sponsored by:

The South Asia Forum at MIT
sanhati.com
The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia
(www.southasialliance.org)



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