Sarkar Speaks in New Delhi on Nuclear Technopolitics in India
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, gave a talk at Ashoka University entitled, “Nuclear Technopolitics at Home and Abroad.” Her presentation was part of the two-day international conference on “Institutional Legacies in India’s Internationalist Thought and Practice, 1919-2019,” held on Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2020.
Sarkar was joined by Professor Arunabh Ghosh of Harvard University and Professor Jahnavi Phalkey of the International Center for Theoretical Sciences. The theme and purpose of this conference was to address and examine the ways in which foreign policymaking in India can be theorised.
Jayita Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where she is also the founding director of the Global Decolonization Initiative. She teaches diplomatic and political history at graduate and undergraduate levels. Professor Sarkar’s areas of research expertise are 20th century South Asia, history of U.S. foreign relations, politics of nuclear technologies, and connected partitions. Her book, Ploughshares & Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War, (Forthcoming, Cornell University Press, 2022), examines the first forty years of India’s nuclear program through the prisms of geopolitics and technopolitics. Read more about Professor Sarkar on her faculty profile.