Welcome to the LNUC Concurrences Seminar Series in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies!
Lecturer
Mitul Baruah, Ashoka University
Mitul Baruah is an Associate Professor of Sociology/Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Ashoka University, where he is head of the Department of Environmental Studies. Prof. Baruah holds a PhD in Geography from Syracuse University; an MS in Environmental Studies from the College of Environmental Science and Forestry, State University of New York; an MA in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; and a BA (Hons) in History from Ramjas College, Delhi University. He is the author of Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahamaputra Valley Assam (Routledge, 2023), and his research interests include political ecology, environmental justice, water governance, hazards and disasters, rural livelihoods, agrarian studies, development and sustainability, climate change, and island studies.
Title
Slow Disaster: Political Ecology of Hazards and Everyday Life in the Brahmaputra Valley, Assam
Abstract
This talk examines topics and questions addressed in Slow Disaster (Baruah, 2023): an ethnographic account of the challenges faced by communities living in Majuli, India, one of the largest river islands in the world, which has experienced immense socio-environmental transformations over the years, processes that are emblematic of the Brahmaputra Valley as a whole.
The seminar will be held in English.
Please register if you want to participate via Zoom.
Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
