[Urbanstudy] CSH-CPR Urban Workshop Series No 34

[Arkaja Singh]

Dear All,**


The Centre for Policy Research (CPR) and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH),
Delhi are delighted to invite you to a Workshop on  *Growth and Citizenship
in Indian Cities: A Comparative Perspective * by  Patrick Heller of Centre
for Policy Research, New Delhi, India and Brown University, Providence, USA.

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*Date: Tuesday, 27 November 2012*****

*Time: 3.45 p.m.*****

*Venue: Conference Hall, Centre for Policy Research, Dharma Marg,
Chanakyapuri, New Delhi 110 021*

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*Urban Workshop Series *

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*Growth and Citizenship in Indian Cities:
A Comparative Perspective*

Patrick Heller

Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India and Brown University,
Providence, USA

*3:45 pm       Tuesday, 27 November 2012 *

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

Are growth and inclusion compatible in the mega-cities of the Global South?
Can democratic urban governance make the difference?  Under what conditions
can cities be effectively coordinated?  This talk develops a preliminary
view of growth and citizenship in India by exploring Indian cities through
Brazilian and South African lenses.  Extending insights from urban regime
theory, Prof. Heller argues that the South African city has become a
quintessential “growth machine”; that the Brazilian city can be usefully
categorized as a “social city” in which participatory structures have
secured a basic “right to the city”; and that viewed through these lenses
the Indian city appears as a “growth cabal”.  The difference, he argues,
can only be understood by examining the relationship between political
power and civil society in each country.



*Patrick Heller *is a professor of sociology and international studies at
Brown University.  His main area of research is the comparative study of
social inequality and democratic deepening. He is the author of *The Labor
of Development: Workers in the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India
* <http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3274> (Cornell
University Press, 1999) and co-author of *Social Democracy and the Global
Periphery*<http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521867037>(Cambridge
University Press, 2006). He has published articles in
*Politics and Society, World Politics, World Development,* *Theory and
Society, Social Forces, *the *Journal of African and Asian Studies*,
the *International
Journal of Urban and Regional Studies* and the *Journal of Development
Studies*. His most recent book – *Bootstrapping Democracy *(Stanford
University Press) with Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Marcelo Silva – explores
politics and institutional reform in Brazilian municipalities.  Heller has
also done research on urban inequality in South Africa, including GIS work
on spatial patterns of service delivery (
http://www.s4.brown.edu/southafrica/homepage.htm). He is currently visiting
the Centre for Policy Research, conducting research on urban governance and
transformation in India. Prof. Heller received his PhD in sociology from
the University of California in Berkeley. He can be reached at:
patrick_heller at brown.edu

*This is the thirty fourth 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.fr* <marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr>* or Partha
Mukhopadhyay at **partha at cprindia.org* <Partha at cprindia.org>**

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