[Soasiastudents] Jeffrey Geog colloquium

[Keith Snodgrass]

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:53:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Juan P Galvis <jgalvis at u.washington.edu>
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Subject: [Geogd] Friday's colloquium

Dear students, faculty, and staff,

This winter quarter, our colloquium series starts out with our very own Craig 
Jeffrey, who will share with us some of his work (see below for more details).

As always, reception will follow in Smith 409.

Title: Till Class do us Part: Youth and The Politics of Waiting in India

Craig Jeffrey, Associate Professor of Geography and International Studies
University of Washington

Time and venue: Fri, 18, 3.00pm, Smith 304
(reception to follow in Smith 409)


Processes of global and regional social change have radically altered young 
people's prospects and their experience of time and space. Nowhere is this more 
evident than in the instance of the large number of educated youth unable to 
obtain secure salaried work. In places as diverse as Morocco, Argentina, France 
and India there are now a large number of young people, most of them men, who 
have been conditioned to expect secure salaried work but who, in the absence of 
other opportunities, seemingly spend much of their time "hanging out" - on 
street corners, in universities or while conducting part-time work that bears 
little relation to their ambitions. Drawing on four years of field research 
conducted between 1996 and 2007 in western Uttar Pradesh, India, I refer in 
this paper to a public culture of waiting among educated un/underemployed young 
men and discuss two forms of politics that have emerged out of their sense of 
marginalization. First, there have been efforts by un/under-employed university 
students, across lines of class and caste, to protest against regional 
processes of economic restructuring with specific reference to their position 
as "students" and "youth", a type of politics that resonates with Partha 
Chatterjee's ideas of political society. Second, a range of class- and 
caste-interested forms of political engagement have emerged among disappointed 
young men that fracture a broader student movement, and I use this point to 
discuss the continued heuristic value of the ideas of Pierre Bourdieu for an 
analysis of youth mobilization. I also appeal for a closer focus on how time 
and space are implicated in youth political practice.


Keith Snodgrass
Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator
South Asia Center
Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
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