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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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Fifth Bernard H.K Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies @ Livestreamed and in-person
Envisioning Global Hong Kong Studies: Possibilities, Politics and Praxis 2022 Bernard H.K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies with Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA) The [...]
2:00 pm Negotiating Hakka Identities in ...
Negotiating Hakka Identities in ...
May 24 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Negotiating Hakka Identities in Multicultural Mauritius
From seeking (temporary) refuge in a European colony in the Indian Ocean after 1860 to becoming an integral part of a post-independent ‘rainbow nation’, the [...]
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6:00 pm Inventories of Dispossession | T... @ Centre for Social Innovation (Annex)
Inventories of Dispossession | T... @ Centre for Social Innovation (Annex)
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Inventories of Dispossession | Tamil Studies Symposium 2022 @ Centre for Social Innovation (Annex)
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