The State of Cities- #CityConversations with Dr Deljana Iossifova on Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of violence.
Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to
The State of Cities – #CityConversations
Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of violence
Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:
Date: April 7, 2021
Time: 7:30 PM IST / 2:00 PM UK Time
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live
Speaker:
Dr Deljana Iossifova, Senior Lecturer, Urban Studies, University of Manchester; Director, Confucius Institute, UK
Dr Deljana Iossifova is Senior Lecturer in Urban Studies at the University of Manchester, where she is also Director of the Confucius Institute. She is the Chair of the Urban Studies Foundation. Currently, Iossifova leads a portfolio of research on sustainable infrastructure and transitions.
She has worked on complex urban transformations, cities and biodiversity and the human ecosystems of ageing. Her main research focus is on the Global East and South, including China, Japan, Bulgaria, India and Brazil. Iossifova is the author of Translocal Ageing in the Global East and lead editor of Defining the Urban.
Chair:
Prof Darshini Mahadevia, Associate Dean, Arts, and Professor, Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad
Discussants:
Prof Kala Sridhar,Professor, Centre for Research in Urban Affairs (CRUA), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Karnataka
Ziming Li, Assistant Professor/Lecturer, Wuhan University, Wuhan
Dr Rumi Aijaz, Senior Fellow and Head, Urban Policy Research Initiative, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), New Delhi
Dr Ambika Viswanath, Co-Founder & Director, Kubernein Initiative; Non-Resident Fellow, Agora Strategy Institute, Germany
Moderator:
Dr Soumaydip Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan; Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi
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About the Talk
Infrastructuring denotes the transformative agency of complex infrastructural formations that shape urban form, everyday life and longer-term development trajectories of cities. Such infrastructural formations comprise humans and their agency, various kinds of resources, material objects and ecological systems of different scale.
They act to visibly or invisibly to structure the city and instil various forms of violence against marginalised groups today and most humans in the future. They work transversally to produce and reproduce social and environmental injustices in the short and long term. The paper draws on research China, India, Brazil.
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Media Coverage:
- Understanding rapidly expanding infrastructure in cities and trajectories of violence; Counterview
- Infrastructuring the City: Trajectories of Violence; Daily Mail India
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