29 min
Reading Southern Theory and Knowledge Hegemony Through Informality (with Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan) In Praise of the Margin
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- Social Sciences
Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan (Research fellow at the Laboratory for Social Geography at the University of Florence in Italy) talks about his transition from architecture/urban planning in India to academic research on southern theory, knowledge hegemony, and informal food-vending practices in Delhi and Colombo. We discuss the production of the formal/informal binary, the politics of categorization, situatedness, the complexity of defining what makes a researcher a Global South or Global North scholar, what it means to cite a Global South scholar in the North, and vice versa.
Dr. Nipesh Palat Narayanan (Research fellow at the Laboratory for Social Geography at the University of Florence in Italy) talks about his transition from architecture/urban planning in India to academic research on southern theory, knowledge hegemony, and informal food-vending practices in Delhi and Colombo. We discuss the production of the formal/informal binary, the politics of categorization, situatedness, the complexity of defining what makes a researcher a Global South or Global North scholar, what it means to cite a Global South scholar in the North, and vice versa.
29 min