CITIES
AND CITIZENSHIP: INTERROGATING URBANISM IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ASIA
A
Pre-Conference Symosium to the 23rd Annual South Asia Conference, University
of California, Berkeley
February 14, 2008
The Geballe Room, The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220
Stephens Hall, University
of California, Berkeley
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
8:00
AM - 9:00 AM
Registration
9:00
AM - 9:15 AM
Welcome
Raka
Ray, Chair, Center for South Asia Studies
University
of California, Berkeley
Introductory Symposium Remarks
Romola Sanyal, Department of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
9:15
AM - 10:45 AM
Panel
1: Citizenship and Urban Space in the Indian City
Session Chair: Romola Sanyal
"Challenging
Clichés while Challenging the State: Shared Modes of Political Engagement by
Occupational Associations in Varanasi"
Jolie
Wood
Department
of Government, University of Texas at Austin
"Guardians
of the Bourgeois City: Citizens' Groups and the Politics of Urban Space in
Mumbai"
Jonathan
S. Anjaria
Department
of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Beneficiary?
Client? Complainant? Changing Notions of Citizenship and State-Society Dynamics
in Bangalore's Urban Reforms"
Malini
Ranganathan
Energy
and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant:
James Holston, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
10:45
AM - 11:00 AM: Coffee Break
11:00
AM - 1:00 PM
Panel
2: Re-scripting Identity through Urban Space
Session Chair: Renu Desai
"Maneuvers
of Virtue: Encounters with Paramilitary Training and Violence in a Shakha of the
Hindu Right in Ahmedabad"
Arafaat
A. Valiani
Department
of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College
"Linking
Urban Vulnerability, Infra-Power and 'Communal' Violence in Nagpada, Mumbai:
Notes from the Field"
Jaideep
Gupte
Department
of Politics, University of Oxford
"Transformations
of Time and Space at Hyderabad's Hussain Sagar: A Microcosm of the City"
Bascom
Guffin
Department
of Anthropology, University of California, Davis
"Through
Kochi's Urban Spatiality: Spiritual Rationalisation of the Asocial Consumer?"
Mathew
Akkanad Varghese
Department
of Social Anthropology, University of Bergen, Norway
Discussant:
Paola Bacchetta, Gender and Women's Studies, University of California, Berkeley
1:00
PM - 2:00 PM: Lunch
2:00
PM - 2:45 PM:
KEYNOTE
TALK
"Dispatches
from Dark Places"
Amitava
Kumar
Department
of English, Vassar College
2:45
PM - 3:00 PM
Coffee
Break
3:00
PM - 4:30 PM
Panel
3: Neoliberal Space in a Post-Industrial City
Session Chair: Romola Sanyal
"'The
Customer is Queen': Shopping Malls and the Construction of Women as Consumer
Citizens in India"
Jayati
Lal
Department
of Sociology & Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Rachna
Lal
Taubman
College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Redeveloping
Women, Displacing Citizens: The Politics of the Evicted in Neoliberal Mumbai"
Sapana
Doshi
Department
of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
"Democratizing
Dharavi: Democratic Engagement and Public Voice in Mumbai's Mega-Project
Development"
Liza
Weinstein
Department
of Sociology, University of Chicago
Discussant:
Clare Talwalker, International and Area Studies, University of California,
Berkeley
4:30
PM - 4:45 PM
Concluding
Remarks
Renu Desai, Department of Architecture
University of California, Berkeley
5:00
PM - 6:30 PM
Reception
Women’s
Faculty Club