Madhulika Banerjee is a Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Delhi and a fellow at the New Institute, Hamburg, Germany. Madhulika has a strong research interest in the politics of knowledge and its role in shaping the discourse and practice of development, with a particular focus on the Global South. She is currently working on a manuscript with the title “Politics of Knowledge in Development: An Analytical Framework”. She has authored various publications in peer-reviewed journals and edited books. She has also been a visiting researcher both at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London.

In her talk, Professor Banerjee argues that traditional/ local/ indigenous knowledge presents already available solutions best in terms of resilience, but also in terms of adaptation to the current climate crisis.

Location: Davidson Lecture Hall