Ambedkar Lecture: Life, Labour, and Death: A Cartography of Caste under Racial Capitalism with Dr Srilata Sircar
Venue
G.159 MacLaren Stuart Room, Old CollegeMedia
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Life, Labour, and Death: A Cartography of Caste under Racial Capitalism
Abstract
What does it mean to live in a caste society under racial capitalism? More specifically, what does it mean to labour in a caste society under racial capitalism? How does that experience map on to a global landscape where caste, race, and capital collude to shape life, mobility, and laws? Drawing on preliminary research from the European Research Council funded project Critical Caste Geographies (2025-2030), this lecture will reflect on recent developments around caste, labour, and legislative interventions in the USA and the UK. It will build a case for analysing and understanding the question of caste in the contemporary global setting through the prism of racial capitalism and set out a research agenda for the burgeoning field of Critical Caste Studies.
Speaker Bio
Dr Srilata Sircar is Senior Lecturer in Critical Geography at King's India Institute.
She received her doctoral degree in Human Geography from Lund University, Sweden in 2017. Prior to that she studied History at the University of Delhi and Development Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India. She received the Antipode Right to the Discipline Grant in 2021 and the European Research Council Starting Grant in 2024.