Informal Leadership and Development in India’s Urban Slums

The State of Cities – #CityConversations with Dr Adam Auerbach on Informal Leadership and Development in India’s Urban Slums

#IMPRI Center for Habitat, Urban and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI Impact and Policy Research Institute, New Delhi invites you to a #WebPolicyTalk series –

The State of Cities – #CityConversations

Informal Leadership and Development in India’s Urban Slums

Details of the #WebPolicyTalk:

Date: April 7, 2022
Time: 7:00 p.m. IST
Platform: Zoom and Facebook Live

Speaker:

Dr Adam Auerbach
Associate Professor,
School of International Service,
American University, Washington, DC, USA

Adam Auerbach is an associate professor in the School of International Service at American University. His research focuses on local governance, urban politics, and the political economy of development, with a regional focus on India. Auerbach’s first book, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums (Cambridge University Press, 2020), accounts for the uneven success of India’s slum residents in demanding and securing essential public services from the state. The project draws on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork and survey research in the north Indian cities of Bhopal and Jaipur. Demanding Development won the 2021 Dennis Judd Best Book Award from the Urban and Local Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Auerbach’s research on urban politics and development in India also appears in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, World Development, and World Politics, among other journals.

Moderator:

Dr Soumyadip Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan;
Visiting Senior Fellow, IMPRI, New Delhi

Discussants:

Dr Pushpa Pathak
Senior Visiting Fellow,
Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Dr Lalitha Kamath
Associate Professor, School of Habitat Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai

Facebook Live Event Video: https://www.facebook.com/impriindia/videos/1135426903696464

YouTube: https://youtu.be/GWNd1iMVltQ

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