Embedded Markets: How Cultural Identities and Social Topographies Shape India's Complex Textile and Crafts Landscape
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This talk will discuss principal observations from different ethnographic case studies undertaken by our team at the Centre for New Economics Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University (India), currently working across states in India. Our research cluster documenting different textiles-crafts-based knowledge systems across India is engaged in using a Polanyian (theoretical) lens, applying his 'embeddedness' theory in the study of complex socio-cultural linkages designing diverse social identity-based working communities across distinct urban geographies.
Ethnographic work involving interviews with different community-based workers, from Kashmir's Papier Mache craft artisans to Gujarat's Ajrakh-based block print workers, to Jaipur's own hand bloc printing working communities, will be shared for feedback and inputs during the presentation. A short-film archiving the complex production process of Kashmir's papier mache handicraft will be screened before the presentation.
For background context on the cluster's work (undertaken so far), a few details on the nature of visually archived ethnographic work in form of photographs/photo essays from field studies are accessible on Visual Storyboards website here; Video essays on YouTube here; journal articles on Rajasthan's block printing work and on Tibetan community's Thangka paintings published here and here by Asian Ethnicity, and from media commentaries/stories carried by platforms like The Wire in India hyperlinked for access: Papier Mache craft: Part I, II, III; Bhuj-Gujarat's hand-block printing; Rajasthan's hand block printing craft.
Contact name: Mara Nogueira
Speakers-
Prof Deepanshu Mohan
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Deepanshu Mohan is a Professor of Economics and Director at the Centre for New Economics Studies (CNES), Jindal School of Liberal Arts and Humanities, O.P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana, India. He is currently an Honorary Research Fellow with the School of Social Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London for Fall 2023.He is a Visiting Professor of Economics at the School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa (Canada), a Visiting Professor to the Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. His previous academic appointments and affiliations have been with the London School of Economics (London), FGV (Brazil), Universidad de los Andes (Bogota), and American University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) to name a few.
His most recent book: Strongmen Saviours: A Political Economy of Populism in India, Turkey, Russia and Brazil was published by Routledge London and New York in September 2022. His upcoming edited book volume: Crises Narratives: Ethnographic Stories from Covid-Pandemic is due to be published in 2024 by Palgrave MacMillan.
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