Chris Grove

Student Fellow

Chris Grove is a PhD candidate in cultural anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Director of the International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Chris has been involved in grassroots education and organizing for human rights in the United States–including struggles to end poverty, secure economic justice, and stop gender-based violence–and he has worked closely with grassroots organizations in Cambodia, India and Romania. Chris holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and has taught university courses in anthropology, history, and social theory. Attentive to concepts of crisis and hegemony, Chris undertook his dissertation research in the US Midwest, examining political responses and formations emerging in the wake of the current economic downturn and their relationships to historical trajectories within the US.

Participating Years

2012–2013

Uprisings: in History, in Process, in the Future

The last year has witnessed an extraordinary flowering of political and social protest across the globe. Each location of struggle, whether the revolutions sometimes called the “Arab Spring” or the vigorous demonstrations of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, provides important lessons in how we understand social change in the current conjuncture.What is the longue durée of such struggle? How do uprisings reconfigure the social? How are they represented and is representation itself an uprising?