[Sarai Newsletter]Student Stipends for Research on the City

[The Sarai Programme]

Student Stipends for Research on the City

Sarai, (www.sarai.net) an interdisciplinary research and practice programme 
on the city and the media, at the Centre for the Study of Developing 
Societies, Delhi, invites applications for short term studentships to 
facilitate preparation of research projects on contemporary urban life in 
South Asia. Applicants are asked to submit a bio data and short statement 
of research interests in this field. Selected candidates will attend 
the  City One Conference in 9-11th January, 2003, South Asia's first 
conference on the urban experience. They will also participate in an 
orientation workshop, `Researching the contemporary city'. The studentship 
provides candidates Rs.10,000/- for the preparation of a preliminary 
research proposal to be presented at a workshop in June 2003. Travel 
expenses, board and lodge, as well as a modest per diem, will be provided 
to the candidates for attending the workshops and the Conference. The 
candidates may be from any social science or humanities discipline, and 
could be enrolled in an MA, M.Phil or Ph.D programme.

Sarai would like to encourage research in the following areas:

Colonial Urbanism in South Asia
Architecture and Spatial transformations
Modernist Planning
Alternative urban visions
Migration and demographic transformations
Urban Memory and Narratives of Violence
Urban Ecologies
Urban Social Movements
New forms of social differentiation
Literature and Urbanism
Cinema and the City
Visual culture
The future of Public Space
Media-Cities and Globalisation
Labouring in the City

Sarai would like to support a diverse range of projects, but would 
particularly like to encourage proposals which, while conversant with 
theoretical debates, have developed a strong sense of the research 
material, whether of archival/ethnographic/anthropological nature. We hope 
that, through this modest programme of support, we would encourage research 
in as yet underdeveloped fields.

Last date for applications: 1 November  2002

Please submit a bio data and short statement in a cover marked `Sarai 
studentships' to

Ranita Chatterjee
Coordinator Programmes
Sarai
CSDS

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