Authors: Gender Institute member, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, senior fellow in in the College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU, and Gopa Samanta, associate professor in geography at the University of Burdwan, India. The book will be launched by Professor Heather Goodall.

In this ground breaking book, the authors explore the world of chars—the part land, part water, low lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the flood plains of lower Bengal. Dancing with the River prompts readers to reconsider the view that land and water form two different elements of the physical environment. The book aims to encourage the rethinking of ideas of security and vulnerability as absolute, measurable, and equally applicable to everyone.

The event will include the premiere of an ANU-made video about the book.

RSVP required:  rsvp.crawford@anu.edu.au

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Access: Free and open to the Public.