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CSLG organises a seminar by Nikita Sud

CSLG organises a seminar by Nikita Sud

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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
SEMINAR SERIES
 
 NIKITA SUD
 
Associate Professor of Development Studies
 
University of Oxford
 
  On
 
 The Unfixed State of Unfixed Land
 
 
Abstract
 
Land is unfixed. Qualitative research in India shows humans physically reconfiguring, legally redefining, politically re-labeling and discursively reimagining land in growth and investment-led policies. The state is a key actor in the material and conceptual unfixing of land, and its re-fixing to emerging developmental imaginations. But land is not just a territorial container for the implementation of policy. Instead, it routinely stretches the boundaries of state authority. In my field sites, unfixed, multi-dimensional land emerges as contested access, social and political territory-making, possession that goes beyond the legality of property, and more. As unfixed land extends past the boundaries and authority of the state, the state too is stretched in projects of land’s unfixing and re-fixing. This state is revealed as porous, and with a criss-crossing of social relationships that draw out its institutional bounds into a world of moonlighting officials, revolving doors, and shadowy actors and transactions over unfixed land. The result of this co-productive interaction is the unfixed state of unfixed land.  
 
 
 
 
3.00 PM, Thursday, 11 April 2019
 
Conference Room, CSLG, JNU
 
 
 
About the Speaker: Nikita Sud is Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford. She has a longstanding interest in the politics, governance and liberalisation of India's land. Her work on the subject has appeared in World Development, Development and Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Environment and Planning, Geoforum, and Modern Asian Studies. Her book Unfixed Land: The Making of Land and The Making of India is forthcoming with OUP.
 
 
 
  
 PLEASE JOIN US FOR TEA AFTER THE SEMINAR
 
ALL ARE WELCOME
 
 
Ghazala Jamil, 
Coordinator, CSLG Seminar Series

A warm welcome to the modified and updated website of the Centre for East Asian Studies. The East Asian region has been at the forefront of several path-breaking changes since 1970s beginning with the redefining the development architecture with its State-led development model besides emerging as a major region in the global politics and a key hub of the sophisticated technologies. The Centre is one of the thirteen Centres of the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi that provides a holistic understanding of the region.

Initially, established as a Centre for Chinese and Japanese Studies, it subsequently grew to include Korean Studies as well. At present there are eight faculty members in the Centre. Several distinguished faculty who have now retired include the late Prof. Gargi Dutt, Prof. P.A.N. Murthy, Prof. G.P. Deshpande, Dr. Nranarayan Das, Prof. R.R. Krishnan and Prof. K.V. Kesavan. Besides, Dr. Madhu Bhalla served at the Centre in Chinese Studies Programme during 1994-2006. In addition, Ms. Kamlesh Jain and Dr. M. M. Kunju served the Centre as the Documentation Officers in Chinese and Japanese Studies respectively.

The academic curriculum covers both modern and contemporary facets of East Asia as each scholar specializes in an area of his/her interest in the region. The integrated course involves two semesters of classes at the M. Phil programme and a dissertation for the M. Phil and a thesis for Ph. D programme respectively. The central objective is to impart an interdisciplinary knowledge and understanding of history, foreign policy, government and politics, society and culture and political economy of the respective areas. Students can explore new and emerging themes such as East Asian regionalism, the evolving East Asian Community, the rise of China, resurgence of Japan and the prospects for reunification of the Korean peninsula. Additionally, the Centre lays great emphasis on the building of language skills. The background of scholars includes mostly from the social science disciplines; History, Political Science, Economics, Sociology, International Relations and language.

Several students of the centre have been recipients of prestigious research fellowships awarded by Japan Foundation, Mombusho (Ministry of Education, Government of Japan), Saburo Okita Memorial Fellowship, Nippon Foundation, Korea Foundation, Nehru Memorial Fellowship, and Fellowship from the Chinese and Taiwanese Governments. Besides, students from Japan receive fellowship from the Indian Council of Cultural Relations.