The State of Cities- #CityConversations on Engaging the Urban from the Periphery
Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to
The State of Cities – #CityConversations
Engaging the Urban from the Periphery
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: July 9, 2021
Time: 7:00 PM IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Panelists:
Dr Shubhra Gururani
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, York University, Toronto
Shubhra Gururani is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto. She is an affiliate of the CITY Institute, York Center for Asian Research, and the Center for Feminist Research. Her current research focuses on the political ecology of urban peripheries and examines the politics of land acquisition, planning, and infrastructure in Gurgaon, India.
Dr Loraine Kennedy
CNRS Research Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
Loraine Kennedy is CNRS Research Director at the Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS) at the École des Hautes Études (EHESS) in Paris. Her research focuses on contemporary India and engages with three main areas: state spatial rescaling, the politics of urban development and metropolitan governance. She is currently serving as Trustee of the Urban Studies Foundation.
Dr Ashima Sood
Associate Professor, Anant National University, Ahmedabad
Ashima Sood is an Associate Professor at Anant National University and co-Director of the Centre for Urbanism and Cultural Economics. Her research lies at the intersection of institutional economics and urban and development studies. It combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies to examine privatized forms of urban governance and informal public spaces in India.
Prof Carol Upadhya
Professor, School of Social Sciences, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore
Carol Upadhya, a social anthropologist, is Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore, India, where she leads the Urban & Mobility Studies Programme. Her research interests include Indian software capital and labour; the reconstitution of the Indian middle class; transnational migration and regional diasporas in India; and real estate development and the urbanization of rural landscapes. Recent and ongoing research projects include: Speculative Urbanism: Land, Livelihoods, and Finance Capital, a comparative study of real estate-led urbanization in Jakarta and Bangalore; ‘World-City’ Planning in Andhra Pradesh: A New Model for Urbanisation?; and India’s Changing Cityscapes: Work, Migration and Livelihoods. She is the author of Reengineering India: Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy (2016) and co-editor of Provincial Globalization in India: Transregional Mobilities and Development Politics (2018).
Liubing Xie
PhD Scholar (City and Regional Planning), University of California, Berkeley
Pratik Mishra
PhD Scholar (Geography), King’s College London
Ankita Rathi
Research Fellow, Institute of Rural Management Anand, Gujarat
Moderator:
Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay,
Associate Professor, Visva-Bharati University, Santi-Niketan, West Bengal; Senior Visiting Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi
Journal
Engaging the Urban from the Periphery
Youtube Vido:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89xzgbt0Qxo
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Additional Details
Registration Deadline Time - 12:00 AM
Organizer
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