[Soasiastudents] REMINDER: TODAY, Craig Jeffrey on Corruption in India, Denny 401, 3:30 PM

[Juned Shaikh]

Immoral Economies? Corruption as Practice and Discourse in India
Craig Jeffrey, Geography and International Studies

Monday, March 5, 2007, 3:30 PM, Denny 401

Corruption is central to the everyday economies and identities of young
people in urban north India. Jeffrey uses an analysis of corruption as a
lens through which to understand emerging youth cultures in India and
changing patterns of caste and class reproduction. Jeffrey builds on a critical
engagement with the work of Pierre Bourdieu and five years of ethnographic
field research conducted between 1995 and 2007 in western Uttar
Pradesh.

Craig Jeffrey is Assistant Professor of Geography and International Studies
at the University of Washington. His research focuses on the cultural politics
of inequality in India, with particular reference to agrarian change,
educational regimes, youth politics, and rural poverty. Jeffrey has published
nearly forty articles and has two forthcoming books: Reproducing
Difference? Education, Unemployment, and Youth Cultures in India (with
Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery) and Telling Young Lives: Portraits in
Political Geography (coedited with Jane Dyson).

This talk is part of the Global Futures project sponsored by the Simpson Center
for the Humanities. The core theme of this project explores how youth are
linked to converging crises in public life around education, labor,
militarization, criminalization, and technology and how global processes
affecting young people are playing out in different locations, with particular
emphases on Africa, East Asia, and South Asia.

Sponsored by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Institute for
Transnational Studies, and the South Asia Center.
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Juned Shaikh,
Ph.D. Student,
Department of History,
R.A. South Asia Center,
University of Washington.
juneds at u.washington.edu