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SASNET Newsletter – September | |
Message from the DirectorAfter a brief summer hiatus,
SASNET activities have fully resumed and we look forward to an autumn of
excellent and highly engaging events. Already in September, we have the great
pleasure to organise four seminars on important and topical themes: Chinese
strategic narratives in Sri Lanka, the current state of the Taliban take-over
in Afghanistan, the factors that enable and obstruct the implementation of
universal primary education in India, and the geopolitics of energy in the case
of Nepal. | | | | Ted Svensson, Director, SASNET. | | | | | | |
In early October, SASNET is co-arranging a screening of Vinay Shukla's documentary
“While We Watched” as part of Doc Lounge Malmö. These events jointly testify to the wide-ranging and dynamic character of South Asia research at Lund University. Sadly our excellent communications officer, Sandra Jakobsson, is leaving SASNET for a position at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Uppsala. We wish her best of luck with her new job and warmly welcome our new communications officer — Matilda Skoglöw. I, finally, would like to draw your attention to this year's recipient of the SASNET Best Thesis Award. Sahana Subramanian received the award for her impressive thesis
“Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour: A Study of Kerala’s Ayyankali Urban Employment Guarantee Scheme”. I encourage those of you who find the theme to be interesting to read Sahana's thesis; it can be accessed via LUP Student Papers.
| | | News from SASNETFor the latest updates from SASNET, follow us on our social media: | | | Sahana Subramanian: “Urban India is Facing a Twin Crisis”
Sahana Subramanian, who recently graduated from Lund University, receives the SASNET Best South Asia Thesis Award for her thesis “Expanding Freedoms and Improving Commons through Labour”.
Read more | | |
Blog post by Priscyll Anctil: “Taliban Takeover –Two Years On”
Priscyll Anctil, a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science, recently published a blog post about the human rights violations, especially against women, in Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power two years ago. Read more | | | Journalist Students Receive SASNET Travel Grant
Linn Jönsson and Maria Lundström are the recipients of this year's SASNET travel grant for journalism students at Lund University. The students plan to travel together to Mumbai this September. Read more | | | SASNET at the Almedalen Week: “What Does India Want in Global Politics and How Does it Affect Sweden” | New Publications from Lund University | Activating Citizenship through NGO-Led Litigation: Shaping the Neoliberal State to Eradicate Manual Scavenging in India
In this article, Alena Kahle and Ole Hammerslev at the Department of Sociology of Law study manual scavenging in India, which is mainly performed by marginalised Dalits, and how NGOs have turned to legal action to combat this issue. The article examines the purpose of litigation for these NGOs, emphasising its role in transferring responsibility to the government, reminding it of its duty to citizens, and enabling political participation. Read the article here. | | | | Developing Non-Core Regions by Establishing New Universities
In this article, Debananda Misra and Rhiannon Pugh, Senior Lecturer at CIRCLE, discuss how newly established universities in the Global South, including in India, create regional connections. They identify three pathways (personal, organisational, brokered) and four motivations (incrementalism, social responsibility, legitimation, rationalisation) that shape these connections, and outline a framework for grasping this process.
Read the article here. | | | |
About SASNET SASNET is an organisation for cooperation between faculties, departments and individual researchers that are engaged in research on South Asia. The overarching purpose of the organisation is to promote research on South Asia (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) at Lund University. 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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