"The Indian state is nothing but a paper tiger": For an anthropology of the bureaucratic state
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Nayanika Mathur is Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Paper Tiger: Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India (Cambridge University Press, 2016) that won the Sharon Stephens book prize by the American Ethnological Society (AES) in 2017. She is co-editor of Remaking the Public Good: For a New Anthropology of Bureaucracy (Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2015) and is currently writing a book on human-big cat relations in South Asia.
Date:
6 March 2018, 16:00
Venue:
Christ Church, St Aldates OX1 1DP
Venue Details:
Tom 8, Lecture Room 1
Speaker:
Dr Nayanika Mathur (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Organiser:
Dr Chihab El Khachab (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
chihab.elkhachab@chch.ox.ac.uk
Part of:
Current Trends in the Anthropology of Bureaucracy
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Chihab El Khachab
