Hosted by: Sarandha Jain

How do infrastructures and notions of citizenship coalesce and become useful for each other through flows of people, objects, and natural substances? What infrastructures are created to regulate flows for protecting certain notions and forms of citizenship (such as documents, digital identities, surveillance, detention centers, dams, etc.)? Addressing these questions, the third dialogue in the seminar series “Flows, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“, is between Sunalini Kumar, Associate Professor at the School of Global Affairs at Ambedkar University, and Amy Zhang, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at New York University, facilitated by Emma Park, Assistant Professor of History at the New School for Social Research. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows, infrastructure, and citizenship, the speakers here underscore infrastructure more, and discuss what it means in relation to flows and citizenship, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues).

Presentation titles: 

Sunalini Kumar – “Tying the Camel and Goat Together: The Abrogation of Rural Citizenship in Urbanising Delhi”

Amy Zhang –  “Re-thinking China’s Infrastructural Turn through Waste”

Sunalini Kumar
Associate Professor School of Global Affairs
AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY

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Amy Zhang
Assistant Professor, Anthropology
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

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