In engaging with these pressing issues of our times, this webinar brings together grassroots activists and development researchers from India with significant contextual expertise to explore authoritarian trends and challenges they pose both for development as well as for the field of development studies more broadly. Specifically, it asks: with its promises and pitfalls amid uncertain paths, is Indian development at a crossroads today?
The webinar will feature speakers from India to share key insights on
- Tracing historical trajectories of resistance to top-down development models
- experiences and responses of marginal subjects at the intersection of class, caste, gender and religion to such exclusionary processes
- strategies to resist and disrupt authoritarian developmentalism
Speakers
- Dr Adil Hossain, Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University, India
- Medha Patkar, Social activist, founder member Narmada Bachao Andolan
- Professor Anand Teltumbde, Scholar and civil rights activist
- Gladson Dungdung, Human rights activist and researcher
Chair
- Professor Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
This event is organised as part of the Challenging Authoritarian Developmentalism from Below: Perspectives from India initiative of the Institute of Development Studies, UK, to convene a series of conversations to reflect on authoritarian trends and ways of consolidation vis-a-vis development pathways in India and its implications.
