The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India
2024 Annual Firth Lecture by Professor Alpa Shah (London School of Economics)
Friday 05/04 17.00 – 18.30
Samuel Alexander Building Theatre, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester M13 9PL
In a searing investigation into Indian fascism, cyber warfare and tech surveillance versus minority activism and resistance, Professor Alpa Shah will chart the collapse of world’s largest democracy through the story of the incarceration and the on-going trial of 16 human rights defenders – professors, lawyers, journalists, poets -- and their fight for justice.
Chaired by Professor Simone Abram (Durham University)
Alpa Shah is the award-winning author of Nightmarch and Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She has written and presented for BBC Radio 4 Crossing Continents and From Our Own Correspondent. She was raised in Nairobi, Kenya, studied at Cambridge and the London School of Economics, and now lives in London. Her latest book is The Incarcerations. For more information on Alpa and her work see https://www.alpashah.co.uk/
