About the event
This event will be given by Nivi Machanda of Queen Mary University.
This paper investigates the incursions of the Indian state into what are often called its ‘northeast borderlands’. It uses Temsula Ao’s ethnographic, political, and literary work to complicate understandings of both ‘the border’ and ‘intervention’. Ao is one of the most prominent writers of comtemporary Nagaland. Born when the Naga Hills were still administered by the British, Ao grew up when the Indian government drew ever more elaborate schemes to control and taxonomise the region. She has borne witness, in both her lived experienced and her scholarship, to the changing political landscape of the Naga Hills. Through a tarrying with Ao’s work, talk paper interrogates the multiple resonances of intervention – colonial, postcolonial, invasive, and cursory to explore the ways in which intervention is experienced, theorised and resisted in border regions.
About the speaker
Dr Nivi Manchanda is a Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary University. Nivi’s research interests include post- and de-colonial theoretical approaches to the study of world politics. She is especially interested in the ways in which knowledge is produced and the raced, classed and gendered nature of both ‘expertise’ and ‘common-sense’. Her latest book is Imagining Afghanistan: the History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
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The Centre for the Study of Democracy Spring 2022 Seminar Series
The Centre for the Study of Democracy is organising a full programme of research seminars with visiting speakers this semester.
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