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Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor: Dr. Nandita Sharma

L.R. Wilson Hall Room 1003

07/10/2019, 12:30 pm - TO 07/10/2019 - 2:00 pm

Organizer: Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

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The Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition presents:
Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor

Dr. Nandita Sharma

October 7:
“The Postcolonial New World Order and the Containment of Decolonization”
Location: 12:30-2 p.m. in L.R. Wilson Hall Room 1003

October 8:
“National Autochthonies and the Marking of Postcolonial National-Natives”
Location: 12:30-2 p.m. in L.R. Wilson Hall Room 1003

Nandita Sharma is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her research focuses on the intersection of nationalism, racism and the poltics of migration. Sharma is active in No Borders movements and movements to regain our planetary commons. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, she has co-edited a Special Issue of the journal Refuge on “No Borders as a Practical Political Project” with Bridget Anderson and Cynthia Wright as well as a Special Issue of the journal Transnational Social Review – A Social Work Journal on “Borders, Transborders, No Borders: Problematizing the “Figure Of The Migrant” with Cornelia Schweppe. Sharma is the author of Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants with Duke University Press to be published in February 2020 and of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada with University of Toronto Press published in 2006.

Event is free and open to all. No registration required.