4.5.2026: Materializing Land (Roundtable on Zoom)
Materializing Land, a special issue edited by Rachel Sturman and Debjani Bhattacharyya recently published in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Date: Mon, May 4, 2026
Time: 9 am PST | Calculate your local time
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Zoom: Attend: HERE
Participants:
- Rachel Sturman: Materializing Land: Toward an Analysis of a Sociotechnics of Our Time
- Amiel Bize: The Politics of Smallness: Subdividing Land in Western Kenya
- Sai Balakrishnan: Monetizing Air: Infrastructure, Resettlement, and the De Facto Planning of Mumbai
- Priya Sangameswaran: Uncertain Hazards and Certain Benefits: The Many Facets of Land (Use) in an Indian City
- Samir Harb: Cement Volumes: Imagining a Palestinian Cement Factory through Geology, Land, and Territory
- Matthew Shutzer: Capital, Earth, and Image: Photography in India’s Mining Landscapes
- Meghna Chaudhuri: On the Historiographical and Historical Displacement of Land
- Debjani Bhattacharyya: Afterword: The Deep Conquest of Land by Property
