- PhD student
- Date
- Monday 10 Jun 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
- Type
- PhD defence
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B and livestream
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
On 10 June 2024, Mausumi Chetia will defend her thesis investigating the roles that power, community identity, agency and collective actions play in various home-making processes.
She takes a historical-structural approach to disaster-related displacements, contextualising their after-effects within the simultaneity of the long-term crises in the region and their governance.
She takes a three-pronged approach to home:
- as imaginative and material
- as the nexus of collective power and identity
- as an entity governed at a multiscalar level
The focus of her thesis is on the borderland region of Assam in India. Communities living close to the Brahmaputra River in Assam have been affected by recurring riverbank erosion and floods for many generations. Their effects include internal displacements and the many complexities surrounding erosion-related rehabilitation.
Chetia's thesis makes the relationship between emotional and psychological experiences of home and the practices of human(in) security more explicit. She argues that the diverse meanings of home as felt and lived by the self-rehabilitated communities are shaped intimately and continuously by power relations between the state, the power elites and the self-rehabilitated communities; and by the community’s situated agency vis-a-vis its location in the hierarchies of the pre-displacement social structures.
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Doctoral Board
Chair
Doctoral dissertation supervisor
Professr Thea Hilhorst
Professor Des Gasper
Dr Sunil Tankha
Full Doctoral Committee
- Dr Swargajyoti Gohain, Ashoka University
- Professor Ksenia Chmutina, Loughborough University
- Dr Nibedita Ray-Bennett, University of Leicester
- Professor Jan Willem Duyvendak, University of Amsterdam
- Professor Shuaib Lwasa, ISS
- More information
The ceremony will begin promptly at 14:00 hrs in the ISS auditorium (Aula B) of the ISS, Kortenaerkade 12, The Hague. The doors will be closed after the start of the Public Defence, but will be briefly opened after the candidate’s introduction to allow latecomers to enter.
Children under 7 years old are not allowed in the Aula during the first part of the ceremony.
The ceremony will be followed by a reception in the Atrium of the ISS.
Professors are invited to join the academic procession.
- Related links
- ISS PhD programme
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