讲 座 信 息

主题：A Crisscross World:  Africa, India, and the Indian Ocean

时间：2025年7月7日（周一）13:30-15:00

地点：紫金港西区成均苑8幢10楼南1017

概要：The Indian Ocean networks, which emerged in 800 BC, connected Asia, the Middle East, and Africa by moving objects, cultures, ideas, and people. These networks involved social exchanges that went beyond the market and showed ways of co-existing in this world that were more reciprocal than stratified. They were interrupted by Western colonialism from the 16th Century, under which the Indian Ocean became a conduit in the circuits of capital. Nevertheless, historians argue that the circulations across the ocean continued creating an often unsettled but organic unity between India and Africa, at least in the port cities. With the end of colonization, the efforts to envision postcolonial solidarities based on these past connections never materialized. Under the aegis of contemporary globalization, there is once again a flurry of movements between India and Africa across the Indian Ocean. What forms do they take? What exchanges and reciprocities do they enable? What possible communities do they create? These questions constitute the foundation of Professor Nair’s second book project, which serves as the focus of this presentation.

主讲人：Manjusha Nair，乔治梅森大学社会学副教授

Manjusha Nair is Associate Professor of Sociology at George Mason University. She is the Director of the Global South Research Hub, the Associate Editor of Pacific Affairs for South Asia and the Himalayas, and a Justice 21 Committee member of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Her research interests are Globalization and Change, Historical and Comparative Sociology, Political Economy, Critical Development Theory, Decolonizing Methods, Ethnography, India and Africa. Her award-winning book, Undervalued Dissent: Informal Workers’ Politics in India published by SUNY Press in 2016, shows, systematically, how neoliberal globalization, mediated as market fundamentalism and right wing politics in India, has weakened the ability of rural migrant workers to use democratic forms of contention. She has coedited the Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South with Nikhil Deb and Glenn Muschert published by Edward Elgar in March 2025. Currently, she is preparing a book manuscript entitled A Crisscross World: Africa, India, and the Indian Ocean Present, which looks at the flurry of movements between India and Africa across the Indian Ocean and the possibilities of cosmopolitan communities.

评议人：Jan Harm Schutte 浙江大学社会学系新百人计划研究员

浙江大学社会学系新百人计划研究员，芝加哥大学人类学博士。研究兴趣包括人类学、语言人类学和传播学。研究涉及亚非语言和交流的政治经济学，以及第三世界国家的相互关系，关注在北京的非洲学生与他们的中国同龄人的互动。出版专著: Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations (University of California Press, Spring 2023)。

主持人：Kurtulus Gemici，浙江大学社会学系长聘副教授

加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）博士。比较历史社会学者，研究领域包括经济社会学、政治经济学和社会学理论。实证研究涉及国际资本流动、跨国金融一体化、经济危机、经济发展、金融网络和住房制度。比较历史分析探究了智利、韩国、土耳其和美国的社会转型。理论研究涉及市场社会学、嵌入性、货币和商品虚构。文章发表于 Socio-Economic Review、Theory & Society、Sociological Theory、Mobilization、Regional Studies 和 Politics & Society 等权威期刊。