Community Capital: Agrarian Transitions and Waste Economies in Urban India

CASI Seminar

in partnership with the South Asia Center

Vinay Gidwani
Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Geography and Global Studies, University of Minnesota
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 Speaker:
Vinay Gidwani is a Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. His research interests include agrarian and urban transformations, labor studies, informal economies, social reproduction, and waste. He has a forthcoming edited book (with Carol Upadhya and Michael Goldman) on speculative urbanism that builds on research in Bengaluru, and a public-facing monograph (with Priti Ramamurthy) on the life-worlds of informal sector migrant workers in Delhi and Hyderabad. He is the author of Capital, Interrupted: Agrarian Development and the Politics of Work in India (Minnesota, 2008), with recent articles in Economic & Political Weekly, Feminist Studies, Antipode, Journal of Peasant Studies, and Comparative Studies of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.

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The Nand & Jeet Khemka Distinguished Lecture Series is an endowed public program of the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI). Launched in the 2007-08 academic year, and made possible through the generous support of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation, the series brings renowned India specialists to the Penn community and serves as a critical forum for analyzing and understanding the complex economic, political, social, and cultural changes that the world’s largest democracy is experiencing, as well as the challenges that lie ahead.
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