KITAAB MANDAL (MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES): Ritty Lukose

KITAAB MANDAL (MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES): Ritty Lukose
Date
Tue April 19th 2011, 9:00am
Event Sponsor
Center for South Asia
Location
Building 50, Room 51
Speaker:

Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
Ritty Lukose is Assistant Professor at NYU's Gallatin School. Her teaching and research interests lie in the areas of gender, globalization, and colonial, postcolonial, and diasporic modernities as they impact South Asia. With a background in anthropology, she is particularly interested in issues of youth, development, consumption, citizenship, politics, and gender and feminist issues. Professor Lukose’s research has been funded by the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Program, the Spencer Foundation, and the National Academy of Education, and she has published articles on this research in Cultural Anthropology, Social History, Social Analysis and Anthropology and Education Quarterly. Her book, Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth and Consumer Citizenship in India, is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She teaches courses on globalization, nationalism and colonialism, diasporic studies, gender and feminism, and South Asia.

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