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Nalini Persram

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Associate Professor, Department of Social Science
Website: http://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/persramn/
E-mail: persramn@yorku.ca

Nalini Persram is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Science and Co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Social Science program. She has published in the areas of feminist theory, international political theory, Caribbean society and culture, and postcolonialism.An ongoing project of hers is 'Slumming to Another Drum,' a documentary film that focuses on entrepreneurial innovation and cultural creation in Asia's largest slum, Dharavi, in Mumbai. Her more long-term project involves the relation between concept formation and the phenomenological-neurological-somatic,and the meeting of Indian and Euro-American science. Currently she is working with a Yemeni scholar on the project, “The Rape of Sheba and the Saudi Starvation of Yemen.’

Keywords: Governance; international relations; social and political thought; postcolonialism and moving beyond Western political theory; consciousness and somatics; gender; poverty; subjectivity

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12:00 pm Debating Capitalisms in Asia @ Online Event
Debating Capitalisms in Asia @ Online Event
Feb 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Debating Capitalisms in Asia @ Online Event
With: Alexander L.Q. Chen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Anil Shah, Universität Kassel, Germany Moderator: Xiao Alvin Yang, Universität Kassel, Germany/York University, Canada RSVP here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pcOChrTkvEt1w7g99r_rib6E7Sv_pI4gM [...]
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