[Urbanstudy] FW: Welcome to the "Urbanstudygroup" mailing list

[Bhaskar Dasgupta]

Hello there to everybody,

Just joined on the recommendation of Anant M (thanks, mate!). I live and
work in London and am interested in various aspects of economics and
technologies, banking and mathematics, politics and history, etc. 

Cheers

bd

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Bhaskar Dasgupta
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Subject: Welcome to the "Urbanstudygroup" mailing list

Welcome to the Urbanstudygroup at sarai.net mailing list! Dear friends,
the Urban Study Group list intends to explore issues of emerging forms
of urbanism. The Indian metropolis, like many other global cities, has
been rapidly remade in the past fifteen years. The urban environment
has experienced dizzying shifts in regimes of property, notions of
citizenship/urban politics, and the very physical familiarity of the
street or neighborhood. Just as we witness the new elite urbanism of
malls, multiplex cinemas, and gated residential communities, we also
observe growing counter claims to urban territory in a politics that
is rooted in daily life. In what ways do people make claims to the
city? What challenges do new forms of urbanism and urban politics pose
to existing understandings of the city? 

Recently, there has been a growing interest in how cities work at the
street level. Discussions of the daily life of the Indian city have
included analyses of urban festivals, local economic networks,
politics, the growth of the media industry, the emergence of sexual
identities, architectural transformations, representations of urban
life in the cinema, literature, and the news media, and other related
subjects. Given these many perspectives on the urban experience, what
new questions will guide our theorization of the Indian metropolis? 

We hope this list will intensify a passion for understanding and
observing the city. There are many forums of discussion currently
taking place in India and abroad on the city and its many processes.
We hope to build on these existing local networks of researchers,
students and practitioners. We encourage list members to post papers,
research in progress, proposals, online articles, links to visual
media, informal thoughts and discussions, and personal narratives. It
is this interdisciplinary diversity and energy that will enrich our
understanding and theorization of the city.

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