[Debate] CCS Seminar on Bhopal's catastrophe and social mobilisation, Friday 20 July, with Shalini Sharma

[Patrick Bond]

The Centre for Civil Society within the UKZN School of Built Environment 
and Development Studies invites you to the seminar - *Bhopal's 
catastrophe and representations of social mobilisation *

Speaker: *Shalini Sharma*
Date:          Friday, 20 July 2012
Time:         12:30-14:00
Venue:       CCS Seminar Room 602, 6th Floor, MTB Tower, Howard College

*Topic:* The world's worst industrial disaster was the 1984 Union 
Carbide gas leak in Bhopal, India. The suffering continues, prompting 
victims to fight for justice against Union Carbide (merged into Dow 
Chemicals), the American corporation responsible for the disaster. In 
what ways are Bhopal's social movements representing their plight, and 
which narratives are proving effective in leveraging local and global power?

*Speaker: *Shalini Sharma is a Felix Scholar in Development Studies at 
the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, where 
her doctoral research focuses on the political communication that feeds 
into people's struggles. She is interested in public and political 
communication, representation and identity, politics and new media, 
social movements, media politics of dissent, power structures and 
development politics.
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