Dr. Jason Cons is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Develop- ment Sociology at Cornell University. His research focuses on two linked issues. First, he works on state and space formation in a series of territorial enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border. Second, he is exploring ways to think about a range of forms of agrarian and climate change in rural Bangladesh from the bottom-up. In this talk, he will share recent work on rethinking and updating old models of village studies in South Asia as a means to understand a range of overlapping forms of agrarian change. This project asks how viewing the village as a lens for under- standing such change allows us to think differently about the relationship between seemingly disparate social and agrarian shifts in contemporary Bangladesh.

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Arr.: Michael Eilenberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Society