[Urbanstudy] CPR CSH Workshop on 30 June by Tripta Chandola

[Shahana Sheikh]

Dear All,

As part of our Urban Workshop Series, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR)
and Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), Delhi, are delighted to invite you
to a Workshop on *Listening into Others: An Ethnography of performing self
in an Indian Slum* by *Tripta Chandola*.

Date:               Tuesday, 30 June 2015
Time:               3.45 p.m.

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

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The everyday in a slum settlement is Delhi is the focus of this
presentation. Here, the author will recount the experiences and encounters
of the slum-dwellers in relation to the space at they inhabit at an
everyday level to build a consolidated picture of the residents' sense of
self and identity. The fulcrum to engage with these experiences is the
practice of listening, privileging what, how, when and why the
slum-dwellers listen in and into. The matter of agreeing upon listening(s)
as a trope of engagement with the slum-dwellers about their everyday was
not intentional and strategic; instead whilst 'hanging around' the slums
the intent, urgency and anxiety amongst the residents to articulate their
sense of selves employing their own referential vocabularies was realised
in their listening practices. The paper emphasizes on these listening(s) of
the slum-dwellers into their everyday practices, as articulated and
complicated by them, to present insights into the wider social, cultural,
spatial, emotional, sensorial and political cosmos of the slum, often left
unheard and unacknowledged both in the mainstream and academic discourse.
Further the paper explores practice and politics of listening as research
methodology and a praxis for the slum-dwellers to articulate their sense of
selves lends the ethnography the density and depth on account of
considering all encompassing multi-sensoriality of the slum settlement
instead of merely its visual aspects. By bringing together nuanced
experiences of the space, its history and everyday reckoning, the paper
presents a vivid and vibrant account of the slum settlement. Whilst the
research informing this paper situates the position of the slums within the
broader urban ecology affected by economic liberalisation, political
movements and evolving cultural practices, it intends to highlight the
sub-cultural practices of slum-dwellers negotiating their own space and
self amidst these transformations.

*Tripta Chandola* is an independent researcher and ethnographer based in
Delhi. She completed her doctorate from Queensland University of Technology
in 2010. She has held research positions at NUS, Singapore and RMIT,
Melbourne working with different projects. One of her on-going research
engagements is with a slum settlement in Delhi. Here, spanning over a
period of a decade she has explored and written about different facets of
slum ecology, including but not limited to technological cultures and
practices, networks of informal economy and articulation of the 'self' by
the residents of the slums.

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This is the sixty-fifth 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: Rémi de Bercegol at remi.debercegol at gmail.com,
Partha Mukhopadhyay at partha at cprindia.org or Marie-Hélène Zerah at
marie-helene.zerah at ird.fr

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We look forward to welcoming you to CPR for what promises to be an
interesting discussion. Please feel free to share this invitation with
friends and colleagues who may be interested.

-- 
Shahana Sheikh

Research Associate
Centre for Policy Research
New Delhi
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