The Ecology of Corruption: Labor, Pedestrian Provocations and the Female Complaint in the Punjab Irrigation Bureaucracy

Date
Thu May 10th 2018, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Event Sponsor
Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Center for South Asia, Department of Anthropology
Location
Encina Hall West, Rm 219, 616 Serra Street
The Ecology of Corruption: Labor, Pedestrian Provocations and the Female Complaint in the Punjab Irrigation Bureaucracy

Maira Hayat is a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago and also affiliated to Stanford University's Department of Anthropology. This talk draws upon her dissertation, titled, ‘Ecologies of Water Governance in Pakistan: The Colony, the Corporation and the Contemporary.’ It engages anthropological writing on corruption, bureaucracies, and states; probes the shifting contours of the public-private distinction; and examines the burden borne by female bureaucrats’ bodies.

This event is part of the urban ecologies series. 

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