Hosted by: Sarandha Jain

How does the migration and mobility of people, objects, and natural substances facilitate and obstruct the constructions of infrastructure, and vice versa, and of citizenship, and vice versa? What forms of state-citizen relations arise from the state’s attempts at regulating flows and infrastructures, and their occasional escape from this? Addressing these questions, the fourth dialogue in the seminar series “Flows, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“, is between Suraj Gogoi, Assistant Professor at RV University’s School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Andrew Grant, Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston College’s International Studies Program, facilitated by Alexandra Delano Alonso, Associate Professor of Global Studies at The New School. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows, infrastructure, and citizenship, the speakers here underscore citizenship more, and discuss what it means in relation to flows and infrastructure, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues).

Presentation titles:

Suraj Gogoi – “Who Comes after the National Register of Citizens (NRC)?”

Andrew Grant – “Citizenship in China’s Contemporary Inner Asian Borderlands: Contradictions between Development and Security”

Suraj Gogoi
Assistant Professor
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
RV UNIVERSITY

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Andrew Grant
Visiting Scholar
International Studies Program
BOSTON COLLEGE

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