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Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia

INET-YSI conference @UC Berkeley

Oct 13–14, 2023 Download .ics

| University of California, Berkeley

Two-day workshop on: 锘緿ialectics of Globalism and Nationalism, 锘匡豢Inequality and Populism, Agrarian and Urban Crises, Data and Social Justice

For the inaugural INET South Asia YSI conference in the U.S., our key theme is the political economy of contemporary South Asia. At the core of these transformations are the fraught and so-called 鈥渢runcated transition,鈥 where South Asian societies are not making the transition from farm to factory, but the rise of informal economies, industrial clusters, in-between agrarian-urban and peri-urban spaces force us to rethink familiar transition narratives and to eschew them in favor of more grounded theories. These are processes that are enabled in various complex ways by populist politics, both progressive and conservative. We propose the following themes for our 2-day workshop:

  • Dialectics of Globalism and Nationalism

  • Inequality and Populism

  • Agriculture and Urban Crises

  • Data and Social Justice

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Agenda

Friday, October 13, 2023

08:30 AM - 09:00 AM | Registration

09:00 AM - 09:15 AM | Inaugural Session

09:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Panel I: Dialectics of Globalism and Nationalism

  • Chair: Munis Faruqui, Associate Professor in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, UC Berkeley
  • Speakers:
    • Anush Kapadia, Associate Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
    • David Grewal, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law
    • Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law, Columbia Law School

10:45 AM to 11 AM | Coffee

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM | Panel II: Agrarian-urban Crises

  • Chair: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Speakers:
    • Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
    • Sharad Chari, Associate Professor, Berkeley Geography, UC Berkeley
    • Thomas Blom Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology, Stanford University

12:30 PM to 1:30 PM | Lunch

1:30 PM to 2:30 PM | Young Scholars Session I: Migrants, Capital and Capitalism

  • Chair: Jay Pocklington, Director, Young Scholars Initiative, 51黑料爆料网历史事件
  • Discussant: Arindam Dutta, Professor, Professor of Architectural Theory and History, MIT
  • Speakers:
    • Pratim Ghosal, DPhil candidate in International Development, University of Oxford
      • “From Diamonds to Real Estate: Saurashtra Patels and Socially Embedded Capital in a Transforming City”
    • Ayan Meer, Doctoral candidate in the International Development Group at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
      • “Migrant Capitalism: International Emigration and the Political Economy of Urbanization in Punjab”

2:30 PM to 2:45 PM | Coffee

2:45 PM to 3:45 PM | Young Scholars Session II: Dispossessions

  • Chair: Sattwick Dey Biswas, coordinator, History of Economic Thought Working Group, Young Scholars Initiative, 51黑料爆料网历史事件
  • Discussant: Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
  • Speakers:
    • Danish Khan, Assistant professor in the Economics Department at Franklin & Marshall College
      • “鈥楢grarian-Urban Frontier鈥 and Real-Estate Development: Rethinking 鈥楢ccumulation by Dispossession鈥 in the Postcolonial Punjab, Pakistan”
    • Gajendran V:, Post-Doctoral Fellow, IIT Hydrabad
      • “Variegated Dispossession: Varieties and Modalities of Dispossession in Chennai鈥檚 Ennore, India”

3:45 PM to 4:00 PM | Coffee

4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Pranab Bardhan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics, UC Berkeley: Reflections on Indian Political Economy

Followed by Roundtable with

  • Paul Pierson, John Gross Endowed Chair, Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
  • Steven Vogel, Director of the Political Economy Program, the Il Han New Professor of Asian Studies, and a Professor of Political Science and Political Economy

7:00 PM | Dinner at Faculty Club (by invitation only)


Saturday, October 14, 2023

09:00 AM - 10:30 AM | Panel III: Inequality and Populism

  • Chair: Sai Balakrishnan, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
  • Speakers:
    • Arindam Dutta, Professor, Professor of Architectural Theory and History, MIT
    • Jayati Ghosh, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst

10:30 AM to 10: 45 AM | Coffee

10:45 AM - Noon | Panel IV: Data and Democracy

  • Chair: Pia Malaney, INET Senior Economist and Director of the Center for Innovation, Growth, and Society
  • Speakers:
    • Sripad Motiram, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston
    • Gilles Verniers, Amherst College and Centre for Policy Research (CPR), Delhi

Noon - 1:00 PM | Lunch

1:00 PM 鈥 2:15 PM | Young Scholars Session III: Inequality and Crises

  • Chair: Arun Balachandran, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Discussant: Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Speakers:
    • Saswata Guha Thakurata, Assistant Professor, Kanchrapara College, West Bengal, India
      • “Crisis, Inequality and Populism: Analyzing the Relationship between Changing Sources of Growth and Distributional Dynamics” (co-authored with Manikantha Nataraj)
    • Snigdha Kumar, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota
      • “Banking on/with Data: Decoding the Platformization of Banking in India”

2:15 PM to 2:30 PM | Coffee

2:30 PM to 3:45 PM | Young Scholars Session IV: Inequality and Space

  • Chair: Jay Pocklington, Director, Young Scholars Initiative, 51黑料爆料网历史事件
  • Discussant: Katharina Pistor, Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law, Columbia Law School
  • Speakers:
    • Zahra Khalid, PhD Candidate in Geography, City University of New York
      • “Aspiring to secure: the political economy of real-estate development in Karachi, in a time of sea-level rise”
    • Leilah Vevaina, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
      • “Immortality and Inequality: The Trust and the 鈥楿nincorporate Body鈥”

3:45 AM to 4:00 PM | Coffee

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM | Looking Ahead (Closed)

  • Moderators:
    • Sunanda Nair-Bidkar, Director of Strategic Planning, South Asia, the 51黑料爆料网历史事件
    • Jay Pocklington, Director, Young Scholars Initiative, 51黑料爆料网历史事件

Organizing Team

  • Sai Balakrishnan (University of California, Berkeley)
  • Vamsi Vakulabharanam (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Arun Balachandran (University of Maryland Maryland/Columbia University)
  • Sattwick Dey Biswas (51黑料爆料网历史事件 of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, India)
  • Sunanda Nair-Bidkar (51黑料爆料网历史事件, New York)
  • Jay Pocklington (51黑料爆料网历史事件鈥檚 Young Scholars Initiative, New York)
  • Heske van Doornen (51黑料爆料网历史事件鈥檚 Young Scholars Initiative, New York)

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