CSAS Lecture Series | The Mutual Entailments of Democracy and Academic Freedom in India
Niraja Gopal Jayal, King's College London
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While the parallels between democratic backsliding and the erosion of academic freedom are compelling if predictable, the concomitant assumption that academic freedom flourished in a more democratic past needs to be historically nuanced. The long-standing structural constraints on university autonomy and governance hold the key to an understanding of both the complex challenges of academic freedom in the present, and its likely predicaments even in a conceivably more democratic future.
Niraja Gopal Jayal is the Avantha Chair and Professor of Politics at King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Until recently, she was also Centennial Professor (2019-23) in the Department of Gender Studies at The London School of Economics. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Citizenship and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press and Permanent Black, 2013) and Citizenship Imperilled: India’s Fragile Democracy (Permanent Black, 2021). Citizenship and Its Discontents won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2015.
The event is free and open to the public.
Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
While the parallels between democratic backsliding and the erosion of academic freedom are compelling if predictable, the concomitant assumption that academic freedom flourished in a more democratic past needs to be historically nuanced. The long-standing structural constraints on university autonomy and governance hold the key to an understanding of both the complex challenges of academic freedom in the present, and its likely predicaments even in a conceivably more democratic future.
Niraja Gopal Jayal is the Avantha Chair and Professor of Politics at King’s India Institute, King’s College London. Until recently, she was also Centennial Professor (2019-23) in the Department of Gender Studies at The London School of Economics. She was formerly a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of Citizenship and Its Discontents (Harvard University Press and Permanent Black, 2013) and Citizenship Imperilled: India’s Fragile Democracy (Permanent Black, 2021). Citizenship and Its Discontents won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize of the Association of Asian Studies in 2015.
The event is free and open to the public.
Made possible with the generous support of the Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
| Building: | Weiser Hall |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Asia, Democracy, India |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Center for South Asian Studies, International Institute, Asian Languages and Cultures |
