Oct
Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India. Research seminar with David Singh
How does the transition to renewable energy reshape social and political power? In this seminar, David Singh presents research on wind energy development in western India, examining how energy infrastructures intersect with caste, masculinity and Hindu nationalism.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kutch, Gujarat, he argues that India's wind energy expansion is not only a decarbonisation project but also a political process through which power is reorganised along lines of gender, caste and religion.
The seminar is based on Singh's recent article Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India, published in Antipode.
About the speaker
David Singh is Head Researcher in Sociology and Geography of Development at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi. He holds a joint PhD in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia and the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on energy transitions, extractive economies, caste, Hindu nationalism and green infrastructure in contemporary India.
Organisers: SASNET and the Department of Human Geography
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About the event
Location:
Eden 367 (Main Conference Room), Eden Building, Lund University
Contact:
Catarina [dot] Kinnvall [at] svet [dot] lu [dot] se