British Association for South Asian Studies Annual Conference 2015
The Securitisation of South Asia
Conference Programme
Wednesday 8th April 2015
Registration will open at 11:00 in the Learning Resource Centre, Park
Building (PK). Tea & coffee will be provided.
The BASAS Council will meet from 10:00-13:00 in PK 2.15.
Conference Opens: 14:00 – 14:30
PK 1.23
The welcome address will be given by Professor Pal Ahluwalia, Pro ViceChancellor Research and Innovation, University of Portsmouth, and
Professor Patricia Jeffery, Chair of BASAS.
Panel 1:
“State Governance and its Security Implications”
Wednesday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.15
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Anup Datta
Human security and governance
in post-14 Afghanistan
Individual liberty and public
order: the Detention of Peter
Budge and the making of an
administrative scandal in United
Provinces 1947-48
Sikkim University,
India
Royal Holloway,
UK
Javed Wani
Elizabeth Chatterjee
Subankar Jayaram
Panel 2:
State capitalism in India? A view
from the energy sector
The Politics of Policing under the
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
administration in Uttar Pradesh,
2007-2012
All Souls College,
Oxford, UK
King’s College
London, UK
“Security Concerns in Contemporary Bangladesh”
Wednesday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.16
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Mr Shahid Uddin Khan
Military Intervention and
Democracy in Bangladesh
The Current Security Context in
Bangladesh
University of
Portsmouth, UK
Minister Consular,
Bangladesh High
Commission,
London, UK
Mr. T M Jobaer
Panel 3:
“The Politics of Implementing Anti-Poverty
Programmes in India”
Wednesday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.19
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Indrajit Roy
Making social protection work:
class coalitions and the
implementation of India’s NREGA
University of
Oxford, UK
Gayatri A. Menon
Subhasish Dey and
Kunal Sen
Seeking shelter in piecemeal
urban development: the grand
images and timid responses of
the Jawaharlal Nehru Nation
Urnan Renewal Mission’s
(JNNURM) plans for equity in
urban India
Do electoral politics matter in
MGNREGS implementation?
Evidence from village council
elections in West Bengal
Azim Premji
University, India
University of
Manchester, UK
Panel 4:
“Exploring Human Security: Going Beyond Safety to
Wellbeing”
Wednesday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.05
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Meera Tiwari
Exploring 'human security': going
beyond safety to well-being:
overcoming insecurities in
marginalised communities of
Jogeshwari East, Mumbai
Exploring 'human security': going
beyond safety to well-being diasporic understandings of
security in Muslim communities
of UK
Exploring 'human security': going
beyond safety to well-being water and sanitation security in
Punjab province of Pakistan
University of East
London, UK
Susannah PickeringSaqqa
Sameen Zafar
University of East
London, UK
University of
Nottingham, UK
16:00 – 16:30
Tea/Coffee Break
The Learning Resource Centre.
16:30 – 16:45
16:45 - 17:00
BASAS Annual General Meeting
BASAS Extraordinary General Meeting
PK 1.23
17:00 – 18:00
Special Panel on ‘Sanitation and Women’s Rights in
India’
PK 1.23
Dr Bindeshwar Pathak is the founder of Sulabh Sanitation & Social Reform
Movement, which has been working to promote human rights, environmental
sanitation and waste management, alternative sources of energy, and social
reforms through education for more than 40 years. He will talk about the work
of his organisation in the context of human security in India.
18:00 – 19:00
Drinks reception sponsored by Taylor and Francis, the
publisher of BASAS journals Contemporary South Asia
and South Asian Studies. The Learning Resource Centre.
19:00 – 20:30
Hot Buffet Dinner, Park Cafe
Thursday 9th April
08:30
Tea & Coffee
The Learning Resource Centre
Panel 5:
Postgraduate Panel 1: “Publishing in Academic
Journals: A Workshop On The Article Peer Review
Process.” Led by John Zavos, Editor of Contemporary
South Asia.
Thursday 09:30-11:00 PK 2.15
11:00 – 11:30
Tea/Coffee Break
The Learning Resource Centre
Panel 6:
“Peace and Security In Pakistan”
Thursday 11:30- 13:00 PK 2.15
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Hidayat Ullah Khan
An Analysis of Internal migration
in Khyber Pakhtunkwa from
Federally Administered Tribal
Areas (FATA) in the Wake of
Military Actions against Militants’
Hideouts in the Region
Bringing the Army to
righteousness: the writing of
Pakistan Army Officers on Islam,
1988 - 2013
Kohat University
of Science and
Technology,
Pakistan
Mark Briskey
Liv Ingeborg Wibe
Why second generation of
refugees need to rebel
A study of Afghan refugees in
Curtin University,
Australia
Freie University
Berlin, Germany
Imran Iqbal
Panel 7:
Pakistan not knowing what
comes next
Power, Ideology and Geopolitics
of Pakistan
University of
Leeds, UK
“Territory and Defence”
Thursday 11:30- 13:00 PK 2.16
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Jayant Singh
The indo-Russian Defence
Partnership: A framework for the
21st Century
National
University of
Singapore
Borders and the Securitization of
the Idea of South Asia
Aberystwyth
University, UK
Pounami Basu
Prithvi Hirani
Bashabi Fraser
Panel 8:
Strategic Culture, Identity and
India’s Nuclear Policy in the Post
Cold War era: Understanding
Consistencies and Contradictions
A Review of Transnationalism
and the Construction of ‘Truth’ in
Postcolonial Novels
University of
Reading, UK
Edinburgh Napier
University, UK
“Gender Insecurity”
Thursday 11:30 – 13:00 PK 2.19
Presenter
Paper title
Tamsin Bradley
Two Feet Forward and One back University of
–
Eradicating
Gender-Based Portsmouth, UK
Violence in India
Mariko Kato
Rahul Advani
Megan Eaton Robb
Affiliation
Gender and mobility: women’s
social security missing in India’s
growth post 2000s
Seinan Gakuin
University, Japan
Building a Place for Women:
University of
The YouTube Generation: India’s
youth in the online space and the
debate on the public safety of
women
National
University of
Singapore
Women, Urban Infrastructure,
and Public Space in North India,
1857-1947
Panel 9:
Oxford, UK
“Paths to Security: Dealing with Conflict and Ethnic
Tensions”
Thursday 11:30 – 13:00 PK 2.05
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Smitana Saikia
Territorial Autonomy and Ethnic
conflict: The case of Bodo
Territorial Council in the Indian
state of Assam
King’s College
London, UK
Zara Ramsay
Arndt Emmerich
Anne Hammerstad
13:00 – 14:30:
The dynamics of nonviolent
resistance in the Tibetan Freedom
Movement
Securitization of Islam in the
context of a Muslim minority
‘witch-hunt’ – a South Indian
perspective
Looking East by North East: India’s
foreign policy towards South-East
Asia and its impact on conflict
resolution and development in
Manipur
University of
Portsmouth, UK
University of
Oxford, UK
University of
Kent, UK
Lunch
Park Café
Please note that there will be a meeting of the editorial board for the
BASAS journal Contemporary South Asia in Park 2.15 at this time. Board
members are requested to take their lunch with them.
Panel 10:
The State in Rural South Asia
Thursday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.05
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Uday Chandra
Intimate Antagonisms: Adivasis
and the State in Contemporary
India
Muhammad Ali Jan
The Ties that Bind: State and the
making of Provincial Capital in
Pakistani Punjab
Development, State and Maoist
insurgency in Nepal
Development as CounterInsurgency: Gender and StateMaking in the Jungle Mahals of
West Bengal
Max-Planck
Institute for the
study of Ethnic
and Religious
Diversity,
Germany
Jeevan Raj Sharma
Lipika Kamra
Panel 11:
University of
Oxford, UK
University of
Edinburgh, UK
University of
Oxford, UK
“Security and Securitisation in Colonial South Asia”
Thursday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.16
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Jacob Ramsay Smith
“To strike and to destroy”:
Manifestations of a Victorian ‘War
on Terror’ in post-Mutiny India
Queen Mary, UK
British Securitisation and
Colonialism in Tibet:
The British Invasion of 1904 and
the role of Sir Francis
Younghusband
University of St.
Andrews, UK
James Wilson
Mario I. Aguilar
Kandy Unbound: The British
Empire and the Remaking of Sri
Lanka’s Inland Kingdom, 18151850
University of
Cambridge, UK
Panel 12:
“Human Security and the Negotiation of Identity”
Thursday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.19
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Oliver Godsmark
Conceptualising Human Security
Historically: Adivasi “Uplift”,
Language and the Census in 1950s
Western India
University of
Kent, UK
Nandini Sen Roy
Kalyani Devaki Menon
Panel 13:
The Everyday Security and
Insecurity of a Community of
Waste Pickers in Calcutta’s
Urbanisation
Goethe
University,
Germany
Communities of Mourning:
DePaul
Negotiating Identity and Difference University, USA
in Insecure Times
“The Securitisation of Urban Environments”
Thursday 14:30 – 16:00 PK 2.20
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Jaideep Gupte
Urban Form and the Complex
Taxonomy of Security Provision in
Contemporary Mumbai
Socio- cultural transformation and
urbanization in colonial District
Multan (1849-1901)
The Institute of
Development
Studies, UK
B.Z.U.Multan,
Pakistan
Urban Violence, Risk and Terror in
Mega Cities: Cities and South Asia
in the Global Era
IIT Mumbai,
India
Abida Kausar
Chaudhary & Humaira
Arif Dasti
Raghav Kishore
Karunamay Subuddhi
16:00 – 16:30:
‘Free-Markets’, Governance and
Urban Restructuring in Colonial
Delhi: 1858-1868
Tea/Coffee Break
The Learning Resource Centre
SOAS, UK
16:30 – 18:00:
The Keynote Address
PK 1.23
This year the keynote address will be given by Professor Jonathan Spencer,
Regius Professor of South Asian Language, Culture and Society in the School of
Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. The title is 'Securitisation
and its Discontents: The End of Sri Lanka's Long Postwar? The session will be
introduced by Professor Patricia Jeffery, Chair of BASAS.
19:00 – 21:00:
The Conference Dinner
A hot buffet will be served in The Hub. Please see the campus map for directions;
alternatively guides will accompany delegates meeting outside Park Building at
18:50.
Friday 10th April
08:30:
Tea & Coffee
The Learning Resource Centre
Panel 14:
“South Asian Security: Thinking Globally”
Friday 09:30 – 11:00 PK 2.20
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Diego Majorano
Does India want to become a
great power?
Institute of
Commonwealth
Studies, UK
University of Bath,
UK
Wali Aslam
Rebecca Williams
Achla Tandon
Drones and great power
responsibility via intentional
causality
The Darling and the Downfall of
the Donors’: US Philanthropy and
the Making of India as a
Laboratory for Population
Control
Sculpting A Future For
Humanities And Social Sciences
In A STEM Culture: Challenges
And Prospects
University of
Exeter, UK
Delhi University,
India
Panel 15a:
“The Relationship between Art and Security”
Friday 09:30 – 11:00 PK 2.15
Please note that this a double panel with two papers
following the break.
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Samra Khan
Promoting Peace and Social
cohesion in Khyber Pukhtoonkhawa and F.A.T.A. Pakistan,
through Intangible Cultural
Heritage Education
University of
Westminster, UK
The Enemy Comedy: Pakistan in
recent Hindi films
Delhi University,
India
Piyush Roy
Portraying ‘Nirbhaya’ in Nine
Emotions – a performance study
of Draupadi’s disrobing in
Mahabharat 2014
Nirmal Kumar
Panel 16:
University of
Edinburgh, UK
“Securing the Body: Health Matters”
Friday 09:30 – 11:00 PK 2.16
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Heid Jerstad
Cold and illness: weathering the
body in southern Himachal
Pradesh
University of
Edinburgh, UK
Limited Leave? Clinical
Provisioning and Healthy
Bodies in Sri Lanka’s Apparel
Sector
Defeating Insecurity with Trust:
Enabling activism on health and
social security through trustbased leadership in rural India
University of
Edinburgh, UK
Catherine Yuk-ping Lo
Kanchana N.
Ruwanpura
Arshima Dost
11:00-11:30:
Securitisation or Integration?
Sketching Ways Out of the
HIV/AIDS Problems in India
Tea/Coffee Break
The Learning Resource Centre
City University of
Hong Kong, China
King’s College
London, UK
Panel 15b:
“The Relationship between Art and Security”
Friday 011:30 – 13:00 PK 2.15
Please note that this is the second part of a double
panel; the first part preceded the break.
Malvika Maheshwari
Prasenjit Biswas
Panel 17:
Violence, Artists and the
(In)security of Free Speech in
India
Cultural (in)security In South and
Southeast Asia: Exploring Issues,
Concepts and Linkages
Ashoka University,
India
North Eastern Hill
University, India
“Constructing a State: Pakistan’s Formative Phase”
Friday 11:30 – 13:00 PK 2.19
Presenter
Paper title
Affiliation
Yaqoob Khan Bangash
The New ‘Laboratory’: Pakistan’s
Constitution Making, 1947-56
Forman Christian
College, Lahore,
Pakistan
Forman Christian
College, Lahore,
Pakistan
Forman Christian
College, Lahore,
Pakistan
Mian Sarmad Hussain
Abraham Akhter
Murad
A People’s Court?: Development
of Law and Judiciary in Pakistan,
1947-60
Within and Without: The
American Presbyterian
Missionary Impressions of
Pakistan, 1947-60
Panel 18:
Postgraduate Session 2: 'Academic publishing and the
impact and potential of Open Source'
Friday 11:30 – 13:00 PK 2.05
13:00:
Conference Closes