Young Scholars Conference Political Economy of Contemporary South Asia October 13-14, 2023 | Berkeley, United States

Our key theme is the political economy of contemporary South Asia. At the core of these transformations are the fraught and so-called “truncated transition,” where South Asian societies are not making the transition from farm to factory, but the rise of informal economies, industrial clusters, in-between agrarian-urban and peri-urban spaces force us to rethink familiar transition narratives and to eschew them in favour of more grounded theories. These are processes that are enabled in various complex ways by populist politics, both progressive and conservative.

We propose the following themes:

● Dialectics of Globalism and Nationalism
● Inequality and Populism
● Agrarian and Urban Crises
● Data and Social Justice

Instructions for abstract submission

Submit an abstract within 500 words here. The abstract should ideally fall under one of the themes. We will look for theoretical considerations/ assumptions, research questions, methodology, and findings when reviewing the abstracts. We encourage PhD scholars in their advanced stage dissertation writing stage, post-docs, and early career Assistant Professors to submit their abstracts for consideration.

Important dates

• Last date to submit abstracts: 30 June, 2023
• Notification for selected abstract: 15 July, 2023
• Last date for submission of the full papers: 15 August, 2023
• Notification for selected full papers: 1 September, 2023

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For any more information: southasia@youngscholarsinitiative.org

Organizing team

• Sai Balakrishnan (University of California, Berkeley)
• Vamsi Vakulabharanam (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  Arun Balachandran (University of Maryland Maryland/Columbia University)
• Sattwick Dey Biswas (Institute of Public Policy, National Law School of India University, India)
• Sunanda Nair-Bidkar (Institute for New Economic Thinking, New York)
• Jay Pocklington (Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative, New York)
• Heske van Doornen (Institute for New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative, New York)