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SASNET Newsletter - November 2022 | |
Message from the Director
The autumn term has been a very productive period for SASNET. We have,
for instance, organised the first annual SASNET symposium, which we hope will
be a recurring event. The symposium brought together a broad range of
theoretically innovative and empirically rich research on the region. The call
for papers for next year’s symposium will be circulated in April 2023.
| | | | Ted Svensson, Director, SASNET, Lund University | | | | | | |
Last week I visited Bangladesh. The trip demonstrated the many opportunities that exist for Lund University to expand on existing, and initiate new, partnerships with universities and other research institutions in Bangladesh. This is something that I sincerely look forward to facilitating during the next few years. It, finally, pleases me to convey that SASNET will support Catarina Kinnvall with a planning grant that will allow her to write a large-scale funding application on the theme ”Dismantling Democracy: Insecurity, Emotions and Authoritarian Populism”. The proposed project will, apart from adding novel conceptual and theoretical insights, seek to explore how these issues unfold in South Asia.
| | | News from SASNETFor the latest updates from SASNET, follow us on our social media: | | | SASNET Symposium 2022
Renewable energy, interviews with former Maoist women combatants, and urban development in Mumbai. SASNET’s Annual Symposium offered a full day of presentations of ongoing research, ranging from everyday transactions at New Delhi’s open markets to the issue of shrinking spaces for civil society organisations in India. Read more | | | How will Russia's Invasion of Ukraine Affect Geopolitics in Asia?
Our first seminar of the autumn term took place on 14 September and was
arranged in
collaboration with the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies (ACE) at Lund University. The seminar brought together three experts on the politics of Asia to discuss how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has affected the region.
Read more | | | Panel Debate on the Situation in Sri Lanka
Under the heading ”What’s happening in Sri Lanka?”, SASNET invited two
researchers from the University of Gothenburg: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Professor
of Human Geography, and Camilla Orjuela, Professor at the School of Global Studies, to take part in a panel discussion on Sri Lanka's economic and political crisis.
Read more | | | For Journalism Students Are you a journalist student at Lund University and interested in doing fieldwork in South Asia? If so, we invite you to apply for our travel grant. Read more about the application here
| | | | | New Publication from Lund University |
Waiting for Welfare: Experiences of Street Traders from Delhi, India
In a new article, published in European Journal of Social Work, Riya Raphael explores experiences of waiting for state-issued documents and state
welfare by studying self-employed
traders (pheriwale) in Delhi.
Link to article | | | |
About SASNETSASNET, the Swedish South Asian Studies Network, is an interdisciplinary network for the production and dissemination of research, education, and information about South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka), based at Lund University in Sweden. About this newsletter
The SASNET newsletter intends to inform about past and upcoming SASNET activities, including events and research, as well as updates on the work of our affiliated researchers. The newsletter is published 3-4 times per year and sent out to all friends and followers of SASNET. Unsubscribe |
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