HU Institutional Strategy: KOSMOS Workshop 1/2014 – Media, Social Movements and the New Middle Class in India

This workshop deals with a social movement in India mainly supported by many young women and men and it’s New Middle Class. The movement is concerned with the issues of women’s rights and sexual violence as well as fundamental questions about India’s legal system, political culture, the representation of society and (ongoing) social changes. The activists also regard the extraordinarily powerful role of the media in the country's political centre as ambivalent. In cooperation with: Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (Germany), University of Heidelberg (Germany).