Monday, November 20th, 2017 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Carleton University Campus 214 Commons
Public event. No prior registration necessary. Everyone welcome
The Labouring Subject of Refugee Economies
Professor RANABIR SAMADDAR, Calcutta Research Group O'Brien Residency Fellow, McGill University, Montreal
Professor Ranabir Samaddar is one of the foremost theorists in the field of migration and forced migration studies. The much-acclaimed The Politics of Dialogue (2004) was a culmination of his long work on justice, rights, and peace. His later writings,The Materiality of Politics(2007) andThe Emergence of the Political Subject (2010) signaled a new turn in critical postcolonial thinking. His co-authored work on new town and new forms of accumulationBeyond Kolkata: Rajarhat and the Dystopia of Urban Imagination (2014) takes forward urban studies in the context of post-colonial capitalism. Professor Samaddar is currently the Distinguished Chair in Migration and Forced Migration Studies, Calcutta Research Group, and the O'Brien Residency Fellow at McGill University, Montreal. Ranabir Samaddar is also a member of the global advisory board of ‘Mobility & Politics’, a peer-reviewed series with Palgrave:https://mobilitypoliticsseries.com
