[Urbanstudy] CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series

[Arkaja Singh]

Dear  All,****

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As part of our CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series, the Centre for Policy Research
(CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi invite you to a workshop
titled *‘Fragmentation, Obfuscation, Contestation: The Emerging Urban Policy
Landscape’ *by *Vinay Baindur and Lalitha Kamath.*

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Date: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011
Time: 3:45 pm
Venue: Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg,
 Chanakyapuri, New Delhi – 110021****

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Best wishes, Arkaja



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*Urban Workshop Series ***

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*Fragmentation, Obfuscation, Contestation: The Emerging Urban Policy
Landscape*

*Vinay Baindur** and Lalitha Kamath
*Independent Researcher and Tata Institute of Social Sciences **

*3:45 pm             Tuesday, 30 August, 2011 *

Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi****

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The urban policy landscape in Indian cities is an increasingly fractured and
contested one. While the making of such policy has been characterised by a
politics of stealth and non-transparency, its implementation has been noted
for its diversity, fractious non-compliance and downright subversion. Using
two policymaking cases from Karnataka and tracing their genealogy and
drivers, this presentation analyses the mechanics of contemporary urban
policymaking. It suggests the multiplicity of modes by which policy is being
crafted and ideologically and institutionally embedded at the subnational
level, greater policy convergence over time, as evidenced by overarching
programmes like the JNNURM and the UIDSSMT, and the formation of a
relatively cohesive network of (national and international) policy actors
with shared policy imaginaries.  The presentation also takes a critical look
at the implementation of such policies, which is a process fraught by
conflict, competing interests, and shifting regional political alignments.
By juxtaposing policy visions with the translation of these visions into
urban realities the presentation highlights the disconnect and the widening
gaps in the processes of urban transformation underway. ****

The presentation largely draws from an updated version of a paper
titled, *Reengineering
Urban Infrastructure: How the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank
Shape Urban Infrastructure Finance and Governance in India* commissioned by
the Bank Information Centre, South Asia, and presented at the World Bank and
IMF Annual Meetings, Istanbul, October 2009.****

*Vinay Baindur*

Vinay Baindur is an independent researcher on water sector and urban
governance reforms based in Bangalore. He has been part of a Bangalore-based
research collective, where he studied the politics of policy making
especially with regard to the new non-profits, IFIs and governance models
such as JNNURM. Over the last 20 years he has been an observer and analyst
of liberalisation policies, structures of enabling environment for the
private sector and public engagement with these mandates.**

*Lalitha Kamath *****

Lalitha Kamath is an Assistant Professor in the School of Habitat Studies,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Her research interests include critical
explorations of both formal and informal practices of planning and
governance in cities, especially those to do with infrastructure sectors,
the politics of public participation, and urban reforms. She received her
doctoral degree from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.****

*This is the nineteenth in a series of Urban Workshops planned by the Centre
de Sciences Humaines (CSH), New Delhi and Centre for Policy Research (CPR).
These workshops seek to provoke public discussion on issues relating to the
development of the city and try to address all its facets including its
administration, culture, economy, society, and politics. For further
information, please contact: Marie-Hélène Zerah at
marie-helene.zerah at ird.fror Partha Mukhopadhyay at
partha at cprindia.org <Partha at cprindia.org>*

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