Life Support: Youth, Life and Viability in Rural North India (Lecture and film screening)

Zoom Meeting（Pre-registration）

Professor Craig Jeffrey and Associate Professor Jane Dyson will show how young people in rural Uttarakhand, north India, attempt to make viable lives as they respond to environmental and socio-economic crises and engage in everyday social action. They will also screen Professor Dyson’s documentary film Spirit, which explores related themes.

Lecture

Craig JEFFREY (Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne)

Jane DYSON (Associate Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne)

Screening

Documentary movie “Spirit”

Moderator:

Trent BROWN (Associate Professor, Tokyo College)

Craig Jeffrey is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne and author of Timepass: 
Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India (Stanford University Press 2010) and Modern India: a Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press 2017).

Jane Dyson is an Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Melbourne. She is author of Working Childhoods: Youth, Agency and the Environment in India (Cambridge University Press 2014) and producer and direct of the documentary films Lifelines and Spirit.

Trent Brown is Associate Professor at Tokyo College, the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and co-author (with John Harriss and Craig Jeffrey) of India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century (Polity Press, 2020).