Shell Energy Business Case Competition Kickoff

A conversation with Suchismita Das, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago. Offering a more nuanced perspective on the role of the state in the eco-politics of food sovereignty, the study attends both to the state’s efficacy in mobilizing collective affective agrarian imaginaries, and to its cunning in avoiding bearing the risks of the agrarian transformations which it advocates.