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SUMMARY:Public Space and the Demand for Recognition:  Lawful and Unlawful 
 Assembly and the ‘Conditions of Listening’ in Indian History  - Profes
 sor Lisa Mitchell\, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall\, Cambridge and Universi
 ty of Pennsylvania
DTSTART:20150121T170000Z
DTEND:20150121T180000Z
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:This paper traces a history of public assembly in India by com
 paring successful stagings of the political in India\, past and present\, 
 with failed interventions in the public sphere and failed efforts to shape
  the construction of public opinion.  It asks why some peoples’ practice
 s are easily recognized as political\, while the same actions engaged in b
 y others are neither recognized nor heard.  Reframing our historical proje
 cts through an attention to what Richard Burghart has called “the condit
 ions of listening\,” it argues that we must be wary of the ways that soc
 iological and analytic categories create claims to universal foundations a
 nd narratives that privilege the actions of some while making those of oth
 ers appear invisible\, relegating them to the status of “traditional\,
 ” or otherwise causing them to appear external to contemporary understan
 dings of the political.  
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 5.00 pm
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