"Discursive Hybridity and Social Coexistence in a Bombay Slum"

Martin Fuchs - "Discursive Hybridity and Social Coexistence in a Bombay Slum"
February 4, 12 noon
Dwinelle 341
Co-sponsored by the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies

This lecture is based on Dr. Martin Fuchs’s fieldwork in Dharavi over several months. Fuchs is currently a Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest, and beginning February 2005 will be a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch. His work focuses on theories of culture, interculturality and social praxis, the hermeneutics of cultural representation and translation, theories of modernity, social movements, sociology and anthropology of religion, the Dalit struggle for recognition, and urban anthropology.