Dear all,

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for a postgraduate
inter-disciplinary workshop, "Ethnographic perspectives on South Asian
politics," supported by the ESRC North-west doctoral training centre. Please
see below for more details.

Kind regards,

James Bradbury (Manchester), Rubina Jasani (Manchester), and Ketan Alder
(Lancaster).

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*Call for papers: ESRC NWDTC Postgraduate Workshop*

*Ethnographic perspectives on South Asian politics*
*The University of Manchester, Friday 1 June 2018*

This one-day workshop, supported by the ESRC North West Doctoral Training
Centre, aims to bring together recent and ongoing ethnographic research on
contemporary South Asian politics from across a range of disciplines. In
the first two decades of the twenty-first century, we have observed the
consolidation of religious nationalisms, discourses about
“anti-nationalism” and increasing violence towards minorities. At the same
time, political cultures in South Asia have been transformed by technology,
professionalization, changing media practices and entertainment, and the
much-publicised and ongoing rise of a new middle class across the
Subcontinent. Migration between South Asian countries, community-based
activism, and citizenship demands continue to shape demographics, and thus
political constituencies in the region. We have to make sense of this
rapidly changing political landscape as researchers, and our thematic
focuses, methodological considerations and theoretical models must keep
pace with these changes.

The purpose of this workshop is therefore to create an inter-disciplinary
forum to share emergent approaches to the study of contemporary South Asian
political cultures. We therefore invite postgraduate and early career
researchers to propose traditional academic papers (20 minutes) or visual
presentations (photography and film). Topics may include, but are not
restricted to:

·      Cultures of political parties
·      Campaigning, activism, new political alignments
·      Political and civil society, community-based mobilisation
·      Legal discourses, freedom of speech, censorship
·      Identity politics – Dalit and Adivasi movements, LGBTQI activism
·      Communalism, secularism, religious politics, political theology
·      Nationalism, “anti-nationals,” and separatism
·      Migration, citizenship, diaspora and shifting constituencies
·      PR cultures, social media and technologies in politics
·      Politics through art, literature and performance


Please send *abstracts of no more than 250 words* to
[log in to unmask] Deadline for proposals is *15 April 2018.*There
are no fees for participation in this workshop. We have limited funds to
reimburse presenters’ travel costs.

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