[Sarai Newsletter] Thomas Blom Hansen lecture: Capital, Community and Crime

[The Sarai Programme]

The Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies invites you to a
talk
 
Capital, Community and Crime in Middle
India:
Stories from
Aurangabad
 
by
 
Thomas Blom Hansen
 
Date & Time: Wednesday, 8 August 2012, 6
PM
Venue: CSDS Seminar Hall, 29 Rajpur Road,
Delhi - 110054
 
Thomas Blom Hansen Professor in Anthropology at Stanford
University, and Director of the university’s Centre for South Asia.
He has many and broad interests spanning South Asia and Southern Africa,
several cities and multiple theoretical and disciplinary interests from
political theory and continental philosophy to psychoanalysis, comparative
religion and contemporary urbanism.
 
His
books: The Saffron
Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India (Princeton 1999) which
explores the larger phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in the light of the
dynamics of India’s democratic experience, and Wages of Violence: Naming
and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay (Princeton 2001) which explores
the historical processes and contemporary conflicts that led to the rise
of violent socio-religious conflict and the renaming of the city in
1995.

All are welcome!
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