Rethinking the Environment, Poltics, Development and Culture Nexus
Location
Massey Business Center (MBC) 103
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
19-9-2009 9:30 AM
Description
Transnational knowledge is an important factor in rethinking the environment. While giving attention to environmental challenges and issues faced in the cultural nexus of India, Dr. Philip will focus particularly on matters of tactical biopolitics in a global context.
Kavita Philip is Director of the Critical Theory Institute and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India; author and editor of Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience; and co-editor of Homeland Securities, Multiple Contentions, and Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. Philip is also the author of a number of book chapters and articles, and she teaches courses in the areas of Gender and Science, Gender and the Politics of Nature, Gender, Biology, and Environmental Ethics, and Cultural Geography.
Recommended Citation
Philip, Kavita, "Rethinking the Environment, Poltics, Development and Culture Nexus" (2009). Humanities Symposium. 25.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2009/2009/25
Rethinking the Environment, Poltics, Development and Culture Nexus
Massey Business Center (MBC) 103
Transnational knowledge is an important factor in rethinking the environment. While giving attention to environmental challenges and issues faced in the cultural nexus of India, Dr. Philip will focus particularly on matters of tactical biopolitics in a global context.
Kavita Philip is Director of the Critical Theory Institute and Associate Professor of Women's Studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Civilizing Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial South India; author and editor of Tactical Biopolitics: Art, Activism, and Technoscience; and co-editor of Homeland Securities, Multiple Contentions, and Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. Philip is also the author of a number of book chapters and articles, and she teaches courses in the areas of Gender and Science, Gender and the Politics of Nature, Gender, Biology, and Environmental Ethics, and Cultural Geography.
Comments
Convocation Credit: Academic Lecture