Our key theme is the political economy of contemporary South Asia. At the core of these transformations are the fraught and so-called "truncated transition," where South Asian societies are not making the transition from farm to factory, but the rise of informal economies, industrial clusters, in-between agrarian-urban and peri-urban spaces force us to rethink familiar transition narratives and to eschew them in favour of more grounded theories. These are processes that are enabled in various complex ways by populist politics, both progressive and conservative.

We propose the following themes:

Instructions for abstract submission

Submit an abstract within 500 words here. The abstract should ideally fall under one of the themes. We will look for theoretical considerations/ assumptions, research questions, methodology, and findings when reviewing the abstracts. We encourage PhD scholars in their advanced stage dissertation writing stage, post-docs, and early career Assistant Professors to submit their abstracts for consideration.

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For any more information: southasia@youngscholarsinit iative.org

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