Surveilling the State: Citizen Reporting and the Making of Political Facts in Post-Emergency South India
- Date & time
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- Speaker
- Professor Lisa MitchellDepartment of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Location
- Bush House, Strand Campus, London
- Organisation
- King's College London
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About this talk
This talk offers a history of the "fact-finding mission" in post-Emergency southern India and asks what it means to establish political "facts." Placing corporeal forms of witnessing, practices of citizen surveillance, and processes of documentation into longer genealogies of inquiries and investigative commissions, it also offers a discussion of the impacts of fact-finding on competing claims to truth and contestations over collective memory. Speaker: Professor Lisa Mitchell is Professor of Anthropology & History in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections (Duke University Press 2023; Permanent Black 2023) and Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue (Indiana University Press 2009; Permanent Black 2010), which received the Edward Cameron Dimock Prize in the Indian Humanities. Discussant: Dr Kriti Kapila is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Law at King's College London, where she is based at the King's India Institute and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.
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