Ep. 09 Acknowledging Youth: Exploring Precarious Labor, Rural Transformation, and Cultural Anxiety in India and Aotearoa New Zealand

In this episode, Dr. Sylvia Nissen and Dr. Ritodhi Chakraborty discuss youth politics and activism and labor as well as rural transformation and cultural anxiety in India and Aotearoa New Zealand. Sylvia Nissen is an assistant professor of environmental policy at Lincoln University (New Zealand). Her research explores the politics of young people’s participation in social and environmental issues. She is the author of Student Debt and Political Participation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Student Political Action in New Zealand (Bridget Williams Books, 2019). Ritodhi Chakraborty is a postdoctoral fellow at Lincoln University (New Zealand). His research interests include working with grassroots climate change adaptation initiatives, ecosystem services, social-ecological systems research and masculinity/gender subjectivities, especially in the Himalayan region (India, Bhutan, China). Edited by Pooja Agarwal (student, School of Education Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi). Music:  Little Idea by Scott Holmes (scottholmesmusic.com) / CC BY-NC. Photo by Krishna Kant on Unsplash