Friday, February 27th, 2015 The Politics of Municipality and Infrastructure in South Asia

DateTimeLocation
Friday, February 27, 20152:00PM - 5:30PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Series

Constructing Asian Infrastructures: Politics, Poetics, Plans

Description

The Centre for South Asian Studies Annual Faculty and Graduate Student Workshop is for graduate students and faculty only.
To register, please RSVP to csas.assist@utoronto.ca

PANEL 1 SITES: SLUMS AND MARKETS
2:00pm-3:30pm

Anwesha Ghosh, Department of History
The Making of New Market: A Constitutive Paradox

Sabin Ninglekhu, Department of Geography and Program in Planning
From Desirable to Feasible: Politics and Contingencies of the Right to the City Movement in Kathmandu, Nepal

Coffee Break
3:30pm-4:00pm

PANEL 2 RESOURCES: WATER AND SANITATION
4:00pm-5:30pm

Bharat Punjabi, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance
Planning the City, Demarcating the Watershed: Vision, Politics and Rule-Making in the Development of the Mumbai Water Supply System

Prasad Khanolkar, Department of Geography and Program in Planning
Kaminey (Scoundrels): On Scoundrels, Toilets and Urban Politics in Mumbai

Workshop will be followed by a reception.


Speakers

Professor Ritu Birla
Chair
Centre for South Asian Studies

Anwesha Ghosh
Speaker
Department of History

Sabin Ninglekhu
Speaker
Department of Geography and Program in Planning

Bharat Punjabi
Speaker
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

Prasad Khanolkar
Speaker
Department of Geography and Program in Planning

Professor Raj Narayanareddy
Commentator
Department of Geography and Program in Planning

Professor Katharine Rankin
Commentator
Department of Geography and Program in Planning


Main Sponsor

Centre for South Asian Studies

Co-Sponsors

Asian Institute

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