TAXATION & CITIZENSHIP IN INDIA
Wednesday, 7 October | 4pm UK | 8.30pm India | ONLINE only
An interdisciplinary panel discussion on taxation and the dynamics of fiscal (alongside political and substantive) citizenship in India.
SPEAKERS: Mukulika Banerjee is Professor of Anthropology at LSE, author, most recently, of Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India (2021), and currently on a British Academy-Leverhulme Senior Fellowship researching on taxation an democracy in India; Akhil Gupta is Professor of Anthropology at UCLA, currently working on questions of transnational capitalism, infrastructure and corruption, and author of Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and Authority in India (2012); Margaret Levi is Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, co-author, most recently (with Federica Carugati), of A Moral Political Economy: Present, Past and Future (2021), with research examining how organisations and governments provoke member willingness to act beyond material interest; Dr Jonathan Weigel is Assistant Professor in Business and Public Policy at Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley with research interests at the intersection of development economics, public finance and political economy, especially on the role of state capacity in development with a focus on taxation; he is co-author, most recently (with Anders D. Jensen), of 'No Taxation without Administration: Bringing the State Back into the Public Finance of Developing Countries' (2026).
DISCUSSANT: Dr Miranda Sheild Johansson, an LSE alumnus, is a social anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology, University College London, where she was working until recently on a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship project on 'The Sociality of Tax: A Multiperspective Study of Fiscal Relations'; she is co-editor (with Johanna Mugler and Robin Smith) of Anthropology and Tax: Ethnographies of Fiscal Relations (2024).
CHAIR: Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre (@SAsiaLSE).
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