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After a hiatus, CAD’s podcast is back, with dynamic voices spotlighting democracy in Asia. Our first featured guest is Dr. Ishani Dasgupta!
Ishani Dasgupta is the Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Asian Democracy. In her research, she centers the refugee as the key political figure of our times, whose actions both indict the global order of nation-states that creates regimes of violence and exclusion; and reveal the possibilities of alternate political projects. Ishani’s thesis, “Emergence of a Deterritorialized Nation: How Tibetan Political Practices Confront the Precarity of Statelessness,” has been awarded a distinction jointly by the departments of Anthropology and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her field research has been supported by fellowships from the Wenner-Gren Foundation and the Am ...
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