“Essential Workers or Disposability Politics? Organizing in the Age of Pandemic Capitalism” | Juan De Lara & Sharmila Rudrappa

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Juan De Lara is Associate Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, and recently began his tenure as the founding director of the USC Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies. His interdisciplinary research focuses on three broad themes. The first centers on urban political economy, racialization, and the politics of space. A second set of research interests focuses on the use of data science and technology to reorganize how various state agencies are restructuring the social relations of race, immigration, and labor. A third set of projects focus on public-facing research that supports community-based organizations in their efforts to resolve social disparities. 

Sharmila Rudrappa is Professor of Sociology and Director of the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches and researches on gender, race, labor, and reproductive justice, with a focus on the U.S. and India. Rudrappa’s current research looks at how markets develop in human materials, specifically from women’s bodies. She has written extensively on the cultural politics of assisted reproductive technologies in India. 

This is the fourth lecture in the Rapoport Center's Fall 2020 Colloquium, “Inequality, Labor, and Human Rights: The Future of Work in the Age of Pandemic.” It is part of a new inter-disciplinary and cross-campus Pop-Up Institute, “Beyond the Future of Work: New Paradigms for Addressing Global Inequality,” supported by the Office of the Vice President for Research.

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Monday, November 2, 2020 at 4:15pm to 6:15pm

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