in partnership with the South Asia Center
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.