Dialogue on Climate Justice in South Asia and Beyond

Ajmal Khan A.T. at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University will speak on climate justice movements in South Asia.

About this event

Ajmal Khan A.T. at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University will speak on the protest movements against nuclear power projects in India. Please come and engage in this dialogue, bringing your experience and research to contribute!

Introduction by M.V. Ramana: Professor and Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security, UBC

Chair: Robert Anderson, School of Communication SFU

How can the climate justice movements in South Asia, like resistance to uranium mining and reactors, be a lens through which we can understand our own similar movements in the Pacific Northwest? And elsewhere too? Can we understand them as common collective responses to perceived risk and harm and still acknowledge the important differences between these contexts?

This dialogue will refer to Ajmal's Khan's 2022 edited book People Against Nuclear Energy: Anti-Nuclear Movements in India which documents the five decades of protest movements against the nuclear power projects and uranium mining in India spread across 15 sites from the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal, Haryana, and Jharkhand. These are among the oldest climate and energy justice movements in South Asia.

Speaker

Ajmal Khan A.T. is a post-doctoral fellow at the South Asia Institute, Harvard University. His research analyzes democratic and justice challenges in the context of state-led development, environmental change, and anthropogenic climate change in South Asia. He is the editor of "People Against Nuclear Energy: Anti-nuclear Movements in India" (Sage 2022). Before joining Harvard, he was a Charles Wallace Trust fellow at the SOAS, University of London. He holds a Ph.D. in Development Studies from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.