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International Development

The Burden of the Urban

What? Mumbai workshop on cities in South Asia

When? 10-12 December 2015

Where? Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

@GRPIDWarwickUni, @urban_burden, #UrbanBurden

For most of the twentieth century, India was understood primarily in terms of the rural ('village India'). But today, 'The city' has come to serve as an indispensable site from which to launch broader investigations about India and its place in the contemporary world. Whether we write about the environment, violence, wealth, sexuality, modernity or poverty, India's urban landscapes regularly ground our inquiry.

Attendance at this event is free of charge. There will also be a drinks reception and art event 'finale' on Saturday 12 December. This event, which will be inaugurated by Professor Sir Nigel Thrift, the Vice-Chancellor, is open to all.

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Draft programme

Speakers and abstracts

Ulka Anjaria (Brandeis University), ‘Writing the City Now’

Brinda Bose (JNU), ‘Outsider/Insider, Utopia/Dystopia: The University and the City’

Malathi De Alwis (Colombo), 'What’s beneath the paving stones? Colombo’s surfeit of secrets'

Peter Hitchcock (CUNY Graduate School), ‘The Postcolonial Spaces of the Global City’

Sarah Hodges (Warwick), ‘The Skin of the City: Moral and Material Histories of Plastic in India’

Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar (TISS Mumbai), ‘The “Reality” of the Other City: Govandi CID’

Pablo Mukherjee (Warwick), ‘The Worldly Adventures of a Late-Victorian Genre: Cities, Clues and Maps in Conan Doyle and Priyanath Mukherjee’

Shilpa Phadke (TISS Mumbai), 'Hyperbolic Heist(s): The Problematic Discourse of Gendered Safety in India’

Nikhil Rao (Wellesley), ‘Land, Ownership and Property in the City’

Jon Shapiro Anjaria (Brandeis University), ‘The City in Motion: A View from the Bicycle’

Rashmi Varma (Warwick), ‘Patna’s Peripheral Poetics’

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Photo credit: 'Calling You.' Olga Marino 2014.