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SUMMARY:South Asia Guest Lecture Series - Avishek Ray
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DESCRIPTION:Evolving Citizenship Discourses in "Digital India": The Case o
 f #SupportCAA\n\n\nIn December 2019\, the Indian parliament implemented th
 e Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that gives non-Muslim immigrants from ne
 ighbouring countries easy access to Indian citizenship. Across India\, the
  CAA has garnered support and provoked protests in equal measure. My talk 
 explores the manifold contradictions\, paradoxes and counteractions in the
  way the CAA has been "engineered" and set in motion\, how this echoes in 
 the digital public sphere\, and how #SupportCAA constantly negotiates betw
 een two parallel objectives: first\, to achieve a pan-national unification
  of non-Muslim 'Indians' (practically\, Hindus)\; and second\, to reconfig
 ure India as a site for the pan-Hindutva communion. \n \n    \nAvishe
 k Ray is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the National Instit
 ute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the South A
 sian Imagination: Representation\, Agency & Resilience (Routledge\, 2021)\
 , co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of Sel
 fies in India (Routledge\, 2024) and co-editor of Nation\, Nationalism and
  the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (SAGE\, 2020). His researc
 h appears in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies\, Contemporary Sou
 th Asia\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cult
 ural Studies\, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies\, 
 Tourism\, Culture & Communication\, among others\; and he has held researc
 h fellowships at the University of Edinburgh\, Purdue University Library\,
  Centre for Advanced Study Sofia\, Mahidol University\, IFK International 
 Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna)\, Pavia University and Unive
 rsity of Minnesota. In 2021\, his academic excellence was recognized with 
 the Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.\n\n 
 \n\nThe lecture will take place in Room 104/201\, located in the building
  opposite CERES\, Universitätsstraße 104\, on the second floor. 
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/south-asia-guest-lecture-series-avishek
 -ray/
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