Mayfair Yang (Professor, Religious Studies & East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
Friedl 225
2204 Erwin Road
This lecture takes up calls by J.K. Gibson-Graham and others to challenge representations of capitalism as a monolithic entity, and instead, to make more visible the economic multiplicity that is all around us, but we fail to see. Many scholars...
The government of Uttar Pradesh, in collaboration with researchers from Duke, UPenn and World Bank, implemented social accountability (SA) interventions on a large scale in 12 districts in summer 2016. SA interventions aim to provide information...
Most social science writing about the urban poor relegates them to the passive status of "populations." These populations are said to be governed, punished, managed, regulated, and surveiled from above. In this talk, I reject this understanding...
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
The second annual Africa Initiative and Graduate Professional Students' Association Conference is focused on social, political and economic changes in Africa. The conference will feature undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows...
Rubenstein Library Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room 153
Join distinguished Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh and American writer Roy Scranton in a discussion about climate change and our imaginative failure in the face of global warming. The climate crisis asks us to imagine other forms of human existence...
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies
