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Asia @ Noon Lecture Series

Asia@Noon talks are held many Fridays throughout the academic year held in various rooms across North Campus. The presenter usually speaks for about 45 minutes, with time for discussion at the end of each talk. Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and people from the Buffalo community are invited and encouraged to attend. If you are a scholar of Asia-related research, we invite you to contact us about speaking at Asia@Noon.

2024-25 Events

Aniket Pankaj Aga.

The Right to Information and Struggles over COVID-19 Vaccination in India

Aniket Pankaj Aga, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Date: October 25, 2024
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Location: 280 Park Hall, UB North Campus

After decades of struggles by environmental and justice movements, India enacted the Right to Information (RTI) Act in 2005, which opened large government files to public disclosure and scrutiny for the first time. Although scholars have generally dismissed such transparency laws as symptomatic of neoliberal economic agendas, this talk will argue that struggles around information and transparency must be contextualized in the historical sociology of state power and corporate capital. Prof. Aga examines specifically how lawyers, journalists, researchers, and activists engaged the state via the RTI Act on the issue of COVID-19 relief and mitigation, as well as the state’s responses. He suggests that struggles over information, far from floundering against the limits of neoliberal governance, have, in fact, effectively diagnosed the actual, non-liberal character of India’s political economy, revealing the act’s transformative potential.

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