[Urbanstudy] Wednesday Discussion Meeting-Dr. Solomon Benjamin speaks on “Subaltern’ Globalization: Intersects between Indian and Chinese Urbanisms”–11 Aug. 2010 at 9.30 am in JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS

[solomon benjamin]

Dear all,
a lecture presentation on some 'work in progress'. 
cheers
Solly


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From: NIAS-BANGALORE <niasoff at gmail.com>
Subject: Wednesday Discussion Meeting-Dr. Solomon Benjamin speaks on “Subaltern’ Globalization: Intersects between Indian and Chinese Urbanisms”–11 Aug. 2010 at 9.30 am in JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS
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Date: Wednesday, 4 August, 2010, 5:54 PM

NIAS Wednesday Discussion Meeting

 
 
Topic:              “‘Subaltern’ Globalization: Intersects between Indian and Chinese Urbanisms”

 
Date:               11th August 2010  

 
Speaker:          Dr. Solomon Benjamin

                        Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, NIAS

                        sollybenj at yahoo.co.in  

 
Chairperson     Prof. Carol Upadhya 
                        Professor, School of Social Sciences, NIAS
                        carol.upadhya at gmail.com 

                         
Time:               9.30 am
 
Venue:             JRD Tata Auditorium, NIAS 
 
 
All are cordially invited
 
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Abstract:
 
While India and China are portrayed the future economic powers set in the stage of meta developmentalism, what lies forgotten are more complicated local histories and connections. A preliminary visit to “urban” villages in the Guangzhou region forms a useful lens to reveal a complicated history of autonomous politics shaped economy. Like Bangalore’s National Market, or Delhi’s Gaffar Market, such spaces reveal significant ‘subaltern’ global connections, and deeply implicated in the relationships between local government and land. These traverses also point to the danger of relying solely on the visual representation as witnessed in Beijing and Shanghai’s “High Modernism”, or then, Bangalore’s IT corridor as the only way we think about globalization. Today, post the global financial crises, that model of developmentalism lies shaken if not fractured. 

 
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For further details, please contact Prof. Sangeetha Menon [prajnana at yahoo.com or smenon at nias.iisc.ernet.in], Co-ordinator for Wednesday Discussion Meetings.

 
 
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