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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 th
 e neighbouring countries easy access to Indian citizenship. Across India\,
  the CAA has garnered support and provoked protests in equal measure. My t
 alk 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 
 between two parallel objectives: first\, to achieve a pan-national unifica
 tion of non-Muslim 'Indians' (practically\, Hindus)\; and second\, to reco
 nfigure India as a site for the pan-Hindutva communion. \n \n    \nAv
 ishek Ray is an Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at the National In
 stitute of Technology Silchar. He is the author of The Vagabond in the Sou
 th Asian Imagination: Representation\, Agency & Resilience (Routledge\, 20
 21)\, co-author of Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The Social Life of
  Selfies in India (Routledge\, 2024) and co-editor of Nation\, Nationalism
  and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (SAGE\, 2020). His res
 earch appears in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies\, Contemporary
  South Asia\, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies\, Continuum: Journal of Media & 
 Cultural Studies\, Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studie
 s\, Tourism\, Culture & Communication\, among others\; and he has held res
 earch fellowships at the University of Edinburgh \, Purdue University Libr
 ary\, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia\, Mahidol University\, IFK Internati
 onal Research Center for Cultural Studies (Vienna)\, Pavia University and 
 University 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 bui
 lding opposite CERES\, Universitätsstraße 104\, on the second floor. 
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/south-asia-guest-lecture-series-avishek
 -ray-en-1/
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