The Biopolitics of Development: Life, Welfare, and Unruly Populations
Organised by
Calcutta Research Group, University of Lapland, and The Finnish Academy
Venue: Sabhaghar I, Swabhumi, Kolkata || Dates: 9-10 September 2010
9 September
Ø Session I: "Development as Freedom" and "Development as Security" – The Common Language of Development – I
Perpetual War of Biopolitics by Manas Ray, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC)
Biopolitics of Global Public Health by Lorna Weir, York University
Ø
Roundtable
Discussion on “Foucault’s Texts on the Problematic of Biopolitics”
Participants:
Julian Reid ,
Sandro Mezzadra ,
Ranabir Samaddar ,
Manas
Ray
10 September
Ø Session II: Bio-political Governance
Deleuze and the Preemptive Logistics of Fascism by Geoffrey Whitehall, Acadia University
Ø Session III: "Development as Freedom" and "Development as Security" – The Common Language of Development – II
Labour Migration – A Sign of Freedom or Insecurity? by Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna
Ø Session IV: New Governmental Technologies in Orienting Lives
The Unique Identification Project by Sahana Basavapatna, Lawyer
Technologies of Standardisation by Vivek Kanwar, Jindal Global Law School
Ø
Session V:
Roundtable Discussion on “Biopolitics and Marginalisation in the Context
of Urban Lives”
Participants:
Manish K. Jha, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) ,
P.K. Shajahan, TISS ,
Mouleshri Vyas, TISS
Ø Session VI: Unruly Populations and the Problematic of Resilience
Government, Law, and Kinship by Ranabir Samaddar
Biopoliticized and Politically Degraded Subject of Resilience by Julian Reid