The Department of Political Science, Easwari School of Liberal Arts (ESLA), is organising a Distinguished Guest Lecture on the topic “The Emancipatory Potential of Poetry in Decolonising Development”. Dr Nita Mishra, Associate Professor, Department of Politics & Public Administration at the University of Limerick, Ireland, will deliver the session.
In the lecture, Dr Mishra will examine the emancipatory potential of poetry as a methodological tool in Development Studies, emphasising its role in amplifying marginalised voices and challenging dominant development narratives. The talk will also explore how poetic inquiry disrupts traditional power dynamics in research, positioning marginalised individuals not merely as subjects but as active agents in the knowledge production process, while acknowledging the challenges faced in legitimising such methods within the development narrative in academia.