Development and India’s Maoist Insurgency
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Oak 438 / POLS Seminar Room
This presentation by SWATI PARASHAR (of Monash University and author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury / Routledge, 2014) examines the problems and convergence within the development-security nexus, ‘policing through development’, and how it keeps ‘enemy’ identity afloat and the conflict thriving. The Maoist insurgency has been called it the “greatest security threat in India.” The solutions so far have been quick fix military campaigns complemented by an equal measure of development, although increasingly, development policies are crafted as tools of “doing security” rather than alleviating conditions of marginalized people.
Sponsored by the Asian and Asian American Studies Institute and the Department of Political Science
For more information, contact: Ms. Fe Delos-Santos at fe.delos-santos@uconn.edu