Trending Globally: Politics And Policy

On this episode: why protests have erupted across India in the last few months, and why these protests have been, in many ways, a long time coming. Guest host and producer Dan Richards talks with Sara Shneiderman, associate professor in anthropology and the School of Public Policy & Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia, and Sahana Ghosh, postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute, about what they call the “weaponizing of citizenship" in India. You can read more of their analysis in their recent op-ed for The Conversation https://theconversation.com/new-laws-weaponize-citizenship-in-india-129027 (here). You can learn more about Watson’s other podcasts https://watson.brown.edu/news/podcasts (here).