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Source: Photo of mural in Colonial Roma Norte, Mexico City. We see the fists as symbolizing solidarity; antiracist and transnational solidarity is a core theme of our conference. Photo credit: Pedro Peterson.

Workshop Organizing Committee
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Jesús F. Cháirez-Garza is a Lecturer in the History of Race and Ethnicity at the University of Manchester. His work deals with questions of caste and race, in India and Mexico, during the twentieth century.  Jesús is currently working on two projects. The first one is an intellectual history of the Indian intellectual B.R. Ambedkar looking at the way in which Ambedkar linked the concept of untouchability to broader political questions such as political representation, race, space and liberty. In his second project, Jesús has been studying the influence of the American philosophy of pragmatism in the Global South. 

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Mabel Denzin Gergan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University. Her research in South Asia combines political ecology, tribal/indigenous studies, anti-colonial and materialist theory. So far her research has focused on the Indian Himalayan borderlands and the oppositional trends shaping the relationship between the margins and the center, characterized on the one hand by state-led development interventions in this region and on the other, through the movement of racialized bodies from the borderland to India's urban heartland.

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Malini Ranganathan is an Assistant Professor in the School of International Service and co-lead of the Environment Team at the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University. A critical urban geographer by training, her research focuses on intersectional forms of discrimination pertaining to environmental injustices in the US and India, with special attention to the history, politics, and inequalities of water infrastructure and property regimes. Most recently she has published on the intersections of race, empire, and liberalism and decolonial and feminist reimaginings of "the environment as freedom". She is an 2017-2019 American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Fellow.
 

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Pavithra Vasudevan is an Assistant Professor with the Department of African & African Diaspora Studies and the Center for Women’s & Gender Studies, and a faculty member of the University of Texas Feminist Geography Research Collective. She is interested in understanding how racism is reproduced transnationally and in relation to specific regional racial formations, exploring articulations of abolitional, decolonial and liberatory futures in popular media and grassroots politics, and developing feminist collectives as decolonizing praxis.

Other Organizers

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Sapana Doshi is an Associate Professor at the School of Geography and Development and a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona. She is interested in the politics of global city redevelopment, eviction and resettlement in Mumbai, India with a focus on social mobilization among displaced residents of informal slum settlements.

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Sneha Krishnan is Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Oxford. She is interested in how histories of colonialism and imperial afterlives shape the experience of childhood. 

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Sara Smith is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a feminist political geographer interested in the relationship between territory, bodies, and the everyday. In her research she seeks to understand how politics and geopolitics are constituted or disrupted through intimate acts of love, friendship, and birth.

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