The Think Pieces Podcast is produced by the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London.
It picks up themes from the Institute's online review Think Pieces engaging in conversations with authors, scholars and policy makers from inside and outside UCL.
The Think Pieces Podcast is succeeding Talk pieces, which was produced by Tamar Garb and Albert Brenchat-Aguilar in 2020 and 2021.
Note on the logo: the blue and green background is a detail of a banner (300x120cm; oil paint, oil pastel and compressed charcoal on canvas) that artist Lucile Haefflinger produced for and which is on display at the IAS.
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The Think Pieces Podcast is produced by the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College London.
It picks up themes from the Institute's online review Think Pieces engaging in conversations with authors, scholars and policy makers from inside and outside UCL.
The Think Pieces Podcast is succeeding Talk pieces, which was produced by Tamar Garb and Albert Brenchat-Aguilar in 2020 and 2021.
Note on the logo: the blue and green background is a detail of a banner (300x120cm; oil paint, oil pastel and compressed charcoal on canvas) that artist Lucile Haefflinger produced for and which is on display at the IAS.
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by Ayona Datta
This is the fourth podcast in our series ‘Life in the Time of Coronavirus’ in which specialists from arts, humanities and social sciences, think about the questions that the virus poses to our ways of life, of being and self understanding, both now and in the past. In this contribution Ayona Datta, professor of Human Geography, thinks about survival infrastructures in Calcutta, and their collapse or dysfunctionality in the context of the mass exodus and precarity of migrant workers, forced to forsake the city because of India’s lockdown.
What comes into focus in her description is not only the failure of the city to support its vulnerable workers, but the way that the survival of the city depends on the bodies it betrays.
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