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SUMMARY:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India w/ Rumela Sen
DESCRIPTION:Rebel Retirement Through Informal Exit Networks: Evidence from India\nA CESIC Seminar w/\nPost-Doctoral Research Fellow Rumela Sen\nOct 2\, 20174-6 pm\, Orozco Room\n  \nUnder what conditions do insurgents give up arms and return to the same political processes that they had once sought to overthrow? A lot has been written on why men and women rebel. But we know very little about how rebels quit. In this paper I show that rebels quit through informal exit networks that thrive in the underbelly of grassroots associations of civic participation. They are made up of ordinary people in conflict zones who live their everyday lives one foot in democracy and one foot in insurgency. \nThe empirical puzzle for this study is drawn from the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India that has claimed 6\,760 lives in the last ten years and has been acknowledged as the biggest internal security threat that the country has ever faced. Despite comparable conflict intensity (measured in terms of incidents and casualties) and unified command structure of the rebel organization\, retirement is exceptionally high in the south and very low in the north. Further\, both in the north and in the south\, rebel retirement is concentrated in some districts and not others. \nAbout the Speaker \nRumela Sen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Columbia University.  She studied Comparative Politics in the Department of Government at Cornell University. Her current research focuses on rebel retirement and reintegration with empirical evidence drawn primarily from South Asia.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/rebel-retirement-through-informal-exit-networks-evidence-from-india-w-rumela-sen/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T173000
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SUMMARY:Live Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject
DESCRIPTION:Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the People’s Republic of China in 1999\, the local government liberalized the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly concession and invited participation by select foreign gaming companies. Over the following decade these companies produced a phantasmagoric Macau cityscape comprised of enormous integrated casino resorts such as the Venetian\, Parisian\, Wynn\, MGM\, and City of Dreams. As a result\, tiny Macau is now the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming\, and is visited by more than 30 million tourists per year. The majority of Macau’s casino revenues are derived from Chinese high-rollers who gamble in private VIP rooms. However\, due to a recent slowdown of China’s economy\, as well as a central government crackdown on corruption and tightening of illicit cross-border financial flows\, Macau’s VIP gambling revenues have decreased significantly. Therefore\, Macau’s gaming operators are seeking to diversify the industry and to target Chinese ‘mass market’ tourists. This paper analyzes an electronic casino game called LIVE Baccarat\, which was specifically created for the Macau market and designed to appeal to ordinary Chinese gamblers. Drawing on the work of Michel Callon and Michel Foucault\, I explore the ways in which the LIVE Baccarat gaming machine ‘economizes’ the casino game of baccarat by introducing novel betting functions which require gamblers to engage in various forms of financial calculation. LIVE Baccarat may be understood as an apparatus\, or dispositif\, of subjection of a Chinese ‘mass market’ gambler – an individuated\, speculating\, calculating\, and risk-taking subject\, and a form of ‘human capital’ that Foucault might call an ‘entrepreneur of the self’. This nascent Chinese economic subject is not only important to Macau’s gaming industry\, but to post-socialist market reforms in the PRC\, and perhaps ultimately to the sustainability of global capitalism.This is an India China Institute event\, co-sponsored by the School of Design Strategies\, Parsons School of Design\, and the Global Studies Program\, The New School \nRSVP Here:  
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/live-baccarat-calculations-macau-machine-gaming-and-the-production-of-the-post-socialist-subject/
LOCATION:Klein Conference Room\, 66 West 12th Street 5th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, USA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T173000
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SUMMARY:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty: Social Assistance in China W/ Qin Gao
DESCRIPTION:Welfare\, Work\, And Poverty\n\n\n\nTalk by Professor Qin Gao\n\n\n\nOctober 12\, 2017 | 4:00-5:30 pmHirshon Suite | 55 W 13th St NY New York NY 10011 \n\n\n\nWelfare\, Work\, and Poverty\, Professor Qin Gao’s new book\,  provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China’s primary social assistance program — Minimum Livelihood Guarantee\, or Dibao — since its inception in 1993. Dibao serves the dual function of providing a basic safety net for the poor and maintaining social and political stability. Despite currently being the world’s largest welfare program in terms of population coverage\, evidence on Dibao’s performance has been lacking. This book offers important new empirical evidence and draws policy lessons that are timely and useful for both China and beyond. Welfare\, Work\, and Poverty is essential reading for political scientists\, economists\, sociologists\, public policy researchers\, and social workers interested in learning about and understanding contemporary China. \n\n\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER \n\n\n\nQin Gao is a professor at the Columbia School of Social Work (CSSW)\, a faculty affiliate of the Columbia Population Research Center and of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, and the director of Columbia University’s China Center for Social Policy. She is also an Academic Board Member of the China Institute for Income Distribution at Beijing Normal University and a Public Intellectual Fellow of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Before joining the CSSW faculty\, she was a professor and the Coordinator of International Initiatives at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service. Dr. Gao’s current research examines the following topics: 1) the Chinese welfare state in transition: size\, structure\, and redistributive effects; 2) effectiveness and impacts of dibao\, China’s primary social assistance program\, and other anti-poverty policies and programs; 3) gender inequality in time use in China and beyond; 4) social protection for rural-to-urban migrants in China and Asian American immigrants; and 5) cross-national comparative social policies and programs. Dr. Gao’s work has been supported by multiple national and international funding sources such as the National Social Science Fund of China\, UNICEF\, and the World Bank. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/welfare-work-and-poverty-social-assistance-in-china-w-qin-gao/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171018T200000
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SUMMARY:Reversing Roles? Environmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era w/ Robert Gottlieb
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \nReversing Roles?\n  \nEnvironmental Politics and Policy in China and the US in the Trump and Xi Jingping Era\n  \nA book talk by Professor Robert Gottlieb \n  \nOctober 18\, 2017 | 6:00-8:00 pm \n  \nOrozco Room (712)\, 66 W. 12th St \n  \nRSVP Now \n  \nAbout the Talk \n  \nHas there been a role reversal between the US and China on the environment? \n  \nChina has long been considered an environmental outlier — horrendous smog episodes\, water unfit to drink and even to irrigate\, huge increases in the number of cars on the road\, a global leader in the use of pesticides\, a major coal producer and importer\, a reluctant participant in global climate negotiations until recently\, and more. The US\, until November 9\, had been seen as at least modestly responsive to environmental concerns. Now with Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt ensconced in Washington seeking to systematically dismantle the environmental policy system in contrast to the passage of environmental legislation and a new role around climate change in China\, the roles do seem to be reversing. Is that an accurate view? \n  \nThe answer is yes and no. The talk will compare current US and China environmental approaches in such areas as air pollution\, transportation\, and food as well as climate change\, and the interplay between national and local or regional government policies and their implementation. It will point to the role of social movements and popular protests to help us understand what has changed and why. And it will look at the structural barriers for change: the nature of China’s embrace of marketization\, developmentalism\, and urbanization on the one hand\, and the continuing power of the fossil fuel industry and other environmentally problematic industry forces in the U.S. to shape or at least block policies. \n  \nAbout the Speaker \n  \nRobert Gottlieb is Emeritus Professor at Occidental College and founder and former executive director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute. He is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books; his most recent book\, co-authored with Simon Ng\, is Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles\, Hong Kong\, and China (MIT Press). \n  \nSponsored by The New School’s interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, and the India China Institute. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reversing-roles-environmental-politics-and-policy-in-china-and-the-us-in-the-trump-and-xi-jingping-era-w-robert-gottlieb/
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Public Event,Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T200000
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SUMMARY:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India w/Shehla Rashid
DESCRIPTION:Reimagining Youth and Politics in India\n\n\n\nTalk by Shehla Rashid\n\n\n\nOctober 23\, 2017 | 6:30-8:00 pmKellen Auditorium (#101) | 66 Fifth Avenue\, NY\, The New School \n\n\n\nAbout the Talk \n\n\n\nShehla Rashid represents one of the most important voices in the anti-fascist struggles in India. She was the Vice President of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union and a member of the All India Student Association. She is currently finishing a MPhil in Law and Governance at JNU. \n\n\n\nA 2016 interview with Rashid for The Wire. \n\n\n\nA 2016 video of Rashid giving a speech on campus at JNU. \n\n\n\nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/reimagining-youth-and-politics-in-india-w-shehla-rashid/
CATEGORIES:Public Event,Public Event (General),Public Talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T180000
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SUMMARY:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China w/ Robert Weller
DESCRIPTION:Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu\, China \n \n \nTalk by Professor Robert Weller\n \nOctober 26\, 2017 | 4:00-6:00 pmOrozco Room (#712) | 66 W. 12th St\, NY\, The New School \n \nAbout the Talk \n \nRapid urban expansion in wealthy parts of China has led to the resettlement of many villagers into high-rise buildings\, making earlier forms of material and cultural life impossible.  At the same time\, large-scale urban reconstruction has displaced many old city neighborhoods.  One result is that the territorially-based religion described in much of the anthropological and historical literature has become increasingly untenable as the entire ecosystem surrounding it has grown unstable. This talk examines what appears to be an especially creative zone for religious innovation:  the expanding urban edge.  The cases come from various cities in southern Jiangsu and focus on ghost attacks\, a spirit medium network\, and innovations in the forms and objects of temple worship. Theoretically\, the paper thinks about ecosystems in the broadest sense of complexly articulated systems\, without assuming a divide between nature and culture. \n \nAbout the Speaker \n \nRobert Weller is Professor of Anthropology & Director of Graduate Studies at Boston University. Weller’s work concentrates on China and Taiwan in comparative perspective. His actual research topics\, however\, are eclectic—running from ghosts to politics\, rebellions to landscape paintings. Perhaps what unites everything is an interest in finding the limits to authority in all its settings. His publications include Unities and Diversities in Chinese Religion (1987)\,  Resistance\, Chaos\, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels\, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen (1994)\, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy (1999)\, Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan (2006)\, and Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity (2008). \n \nLIMITED SEATING 
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/religious-change-and-disturbed-religious-ecosystems-in-jiangsu-china-w-robert-weller/
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