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About Aparna Gopalan
NBN Episodes hosted by Aparna:
December 28, 2023
Dead Pledges
When teaching a public course called “The Age of Debt” this winter break, I had the strange realization that one of the the most successful readings i…
August 2, 2021
Everyday State and Politics in India
Set in the eastern state of Odisha in a district known as the “Somalia of India,” Everyday State and Politics in India: Government in the Backyard in …
October 6, 2020
Brand New Nation
It is 21st century commonsense that India is an “emerging” economy. But how did this common sense itself emerge? How did India’s global image shift fr…
September 16, 2020
Shareholder Cities
In the thoroughly researched, lucidly narrated new book Shareholder Cities: Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India (University of Pennsyl…
July 17, 2020
The Broken Heart of America
St. Louis, Missouri is the city with the highest rate of police shootings in the United States. It’s the city with an 18 year difference in life expec…
July 14, 2020
The Government of Beans
By the time Bolivian President Evo Morales was deposed in December 2019, it had become increasingly clear that Latin America’s Pink Tide – the wave of…
May 8, 2020
Making the Modern Slum
In the 1870s, as colonial India witnessed some of the worst famines in its history where 6-10 million perished, observers watched in astonishment as f…
May 5, 2020
Tea &
In recent years, commodity chain analysis – the scholarly effort to piece together the production and consumption ends of various commodities – has re…
January 7, 2020
The Power of Debt
As the upcoming 2020 U.S. election finally brings questions of economic justice center stage, this episode discusses the powerful short open-source bo…
August 7, 2019
Ground Down by Growth
A recent UNDP report makes the astonishing claim that India has halved its poverty between 2006 and 2016. Moving us past the rosy picture, Alpa Shah a…
May 24, 2019
Politicizing Creative Economy
In a world where heritage, culture, creativity, and the capacity to imagine are themselves commodified and sold under the banner of neoliberal freedom…
January 7, 2019
Land’s End
If you want to read just one book to properly understand capitalism, let it be Tania Li’s award-winning 2014 book Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on …
December 5, 2018
Landscapes of Accumulation
Few who have visited India in the past two decades will have failed to noticed the sudden and spectacular urban transformation that has taken place in…
November 27, 2018
Financializing Poverty
Is microfinance the magic bullet that will end global poverty or is it yet another a form of predatory lending to the poor? In her new book Financiali…