Date: 11 April
Time: 4pm
Abstract
This talk turns to the intellectual thought that emerged from India and Latin America, two outposts of the Global South, and seeks to recover the elided reflective traditions of thinkers, writers and activists from these peripheries on salient themes of imperialism, sovereignty, development, and socio-economic, racial, and caste inequalities. It seeks to highlight the distinctive ideas, alliances and parallelisms in their works, as well as the manner in which they articulated liberatory paradigms for the colonized and/or erstwhile colonized world. It underscores the contemporary relevance of this body of work as mass movements world over seek civilizational alternatives to capitalist modernity.
Bio of the Speaker
Dr. Rahul A Sirohi is an Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh. Dr. Sirohi received his PhD in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. His research focuses on development economics, political economy and the history of development thought. He is the author of From Developmentalism to Neoliberalism: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil and India (2019, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-author of Reassessing the Pink Tide: Lessons from Brazil and Venezuela (2021, Palgrave Macmillan)