SPACE: The Mean Streets of Naples and Mumbai
The Department of Politics is running a one-off event on politics and literature as part of its SPACE (Seminars on Politics, Art, Culture and Entertainment) series.
6pm, 18 June 2015
The Department of Politics is running a one-off event on politics and literature as part of its SPACE (Seminars on Politics, Art, Culture and Entertainment) series.
In this seminar, Dr Maria Ridda (Birkbeck College and University of Kent) will talk about her research on how transnational criminal organisations challenge traditional reconfigurations of the city through a comparison of Mumbai and Naples in Indian and Italian fictional and non-fictional texts from 2000 to the present. The cross-disciplinary comparison exposes hidden connections between the ‘underworld’ and conventional power structures that both disrupt and reinforce the rhetoric of global capitalism and conventional state relations. Dr Ridda’s presentation will be followed by comments from Dr Caroline Edwards (Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College) and Dr Jason Edwards (Department of Politics, Birkbeck College).
This event is open to all Birkbeck students and Be Birkbeck members but places are limited and participants must register in advance.
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