Copenhagen seminar on Civil Society of India and its Democratic Dynamics

Chiharu Takenaka, Professor of Political Science, Rikkyo University, Japan, holds a guest lecture at Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on Tuesday 6 March 2012, 10.00–12.00. She will talk about ”Civil Society of India and its Democratic Dynamics from a 21st Century Asian Perspective”. Venue: CBS, Room D1V108, Dalgas Have 15, Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. Please register at: arc@cbs.dk. It is free of charge and all are welcome.
Professor Takenaka is a specialist of comparative politics with a focus on India, civil society, and decolonization politics. She has written extensively on India and South Asia, and on democracy and civil participation in politics. Her latest book, Tozoku no Indo-shi (India according to Phulan Devi) from 2011 was based on her exclusive interview with Phulan Devi just before her assassination in 2001. Her Copenhagen presentation will examine the evolution of India’s civil society and its implications for democratic dynamics from this broader perspective of the Asian transformation in the early 21st century. The presentation will be an interim update from an ongoing research project that attempts to capture a new Asia, which is headed by Professor Takenaka and involves about 30 scholars. Prof. Anthony D’Costa, Asia Research Centre at CBS, will also give a small presentation entitled “Problematizing the New India”.
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