NHESR online lecture series # 2: Liberation Statistics: Making Data for Alternative Worlds in India and West Africa (Tiago Saraiva)

Tiago Saraiva, Drexel University
Liberation Statistics: Making Data for Alternative Worlds in India and West Africa

This talk explores the role of statistical practices in decolonizing the world. It follows the work of Pandurang Sukhatme at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research and at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and Amílcar Cabral as surveyor for the Portuguese colonial government and guerrilla leader in Guinea Bissau. Their engagement with statistics, namely with sampling and randomization, enables the historical weaving of projects of world governance at the UN, Indian independence, and West African liberation movements. In this connected history of decolonization, statistical methods are central to denounce the injustices of the colonial order, but also to unveil forms of agency from below for worldmaking after empire.

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Organisation & contact:
Léa Renard (FRIAS / Heidelberg University) & Frederico Ágoas (CICS.NOVA – NOVA FCSH)
nhesr.network[at]gmail.com