Media, power, and democracy in South Asia
Investigative journalist Neha Dixit examines how surveillance, majoritarianism, and corporate-political alliances reshape democracy in South Asia.
Why we picked this
Dixit's reporting from inside India's democratic erosion offers a ground-level view that most Western coverage misses entirely. This is democracy examined from below, not above.
What does democracy look like from below? Investigative journalist Neha Dixit has spent years reporting on how surveillance technology, majoritarian politics, and corporate-political alliances are reshaping ordinary lives across South Asia. Her talk at the University of Washington draws on firsthand reporting to examine the mechanics of democratic erosion as experienced by the people living through it.
Dixit’s work cuts through the abstractions that dominate most discussions of democratic decline, grounding the conversation in specific stories of how power operates when institutions designed to check it are co-opted or dismantled.
Free and open to the public at HUB 214.