Nandita Sharma
University of Hawai’i
Biography:
Dr. Sharma received her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Sharma is also an affiliate faculty member of the International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program. Dr. Sharma is an activist scholar whose research is shaped by the social movements she is active in, including No Borders movements and those struggling for the commons. She is the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006) Nandita Sharma’s research interests address themes of human migration, migrant labor, national state power, ideologies of racism and nationalism, processes of identification and self-understanding, and social movements for justice. Dr. Sharma is currently involved in a research project examining the social and historical construction of a divide between those variously constituted as “indigenous” or as “migrants” through the idea that only “natives” belong in the spaces designated as “native” land. She is also actively involved in research on the national state’s organization of temporary, migrant workers who are rendered unfree by the terms of their immigration status. Dr. Sharma is also involved in collective research/activism that is trying to rejuvenate the demand for common lands here in Hawai’i as well as around the world.
Links:
http://nanditasharma.net/
http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/dept=es&faculty=nsharma@hawaii.edu
http://www.socialsciences.hawaii.edu/profile/index.cfm?email=nsharma@hawaii.edu