Be Careful What You Fight For

Authors

  • Nandita Sharma University of Hawaii at Mānoa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1077

Author Biography

Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Mānoa

Nandita Sharma is Professor of Sociology at the Hawaii at Mānoa. A scholar-activist, her research interests are informed by the movements she is a part of, including No Borders movements and those struggling for a planetary commons. She is also the author of Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006).

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Published

2021-08-14

How to Cite

Sharma, N. (2021). Be Careful What You Fight For. Journal of World-Systems Research, 27(2), 359–369. https://doi.org/10.5195/jwsr.2021.1077

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2021): Summer/Autumn 2021

Section

Symposium: Home Rule by Nandita Sharma

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