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Gueorguiev Quoted in Politico Article on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Rise to Power
“He always kind of played the background, gave credit to the people around him and never really took credit for himself,” says Dimitar Gueorguiev, associate professor of political science, of President Xi's early positions in the Chinese Communist Party.
See related: China, Government, International Affairs
Bhan Documents Growing Critical Kashmir Studies Scholarship in New Book
This handbook, co-edited by Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology and Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, politicizes discourses of nationalism, patriotism, democracy, and liberalism, and it questions how these dominant globalist imaginaries and discourses serve institutionalized power, create hegemony, and normalize domination.
See related: Religion, South Asia
Mitra Piece on India’s Export-Oriented Manufacturing Model Published in Ideas for India
"Has the export-oriented manufacturing model reached its sell-by date for India?," authored by Professor Devashish Mitra, was published in Ideas for India.
See related: Economic Policy, India, Labor
Making the Millet Common: Rethinking Authoritarian Politics Through Commemoration
"Rethinking Authoritarian Politics Through Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 2016 Coup Attempt," authored by Assistant Professor Timur Hammond, was published in ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.
Hammond Examines the Relationship Between Artistic Practice and Religious Devotion in New Study
"Conjunctions of Islam: rethinking the geographies of art and piety through the notebooks of Ahmet Süheyl Ünver," authored by Assistant Professor Timur Hammond, was published in Cultural Geographies.
See related: Europe, Middle East & North Africa, Religion
Maxwell School Announces 2022 Faculty Promotions
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Sultana Study on Climate Coloniality Published in Political Geography
"The unbearable heaviness of climate coloniality," authored by Professor of Geography and the Environment Farhana Sultana, was published in Political Geography.
See related: Climate Change
Mitra Speaks with Bloomberg on Unemployment, Protests in India
Bhan Receives Lender Center Faculty Fellowship
Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology, was awarded a Lender Center Faculty Fellowship to investigate how artificial intelligence weapons systems transform war and surveillance and accentuate people’s social and political vulnerabilities to violence.
See related: Autonomous Systems, Awards & Honors, Cybersecurity, Ethics, Human Rights
Bhan Discusses the Himalayan Community of Brogpa in VICE Article
Mona Bhan, associate professor of anthropology and Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asian Studies, was quoted in the VICE article, "This ‘Aryan’ Community’s ‘Exotic’ Clothes and Polyamorous Marriages Mask Other Truths."
See related: Parenting & Family, Race & Ethnicity, South Asia