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Objectives
Recent statements of reform in urban governance almost invariably mandate some form of citizen participation or public consultation, often pushed by international financial institutions (IFIs) or bilateral donors and advanced by urban reform proponents within government. In the Indian context, the Community Participation Law and the introduction of Area Sabhas have become part of the conditionalities of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. It is important to understand why these concepts have entered official discourses on urban governance and what imperatives might underpin their institutionalization. Meanwhile, a range of local collective actors and citizens’ initiatives have acquired prominence in recent years, involving new sections of the urban population, and often spelling a new politics of urban activism. The workshop aims to contextualize emerging insights on such new forms of civil society within the larger reform processes and to reflect on their implications for theorizing civil society, political society and participation in these new contexts.
Tentative Programme
DAY 1
| 9.30-10.30am | Keynote Speech : Satish Deshpande |
| Commentary by : Amita Baviskar |
| 10.45am-12.35pm | SESSION I. INTRODUCTORY SESSION : SETTING THE CONTEXT AND FRAMING THE ISSUES |
| 1. Background paper : Workshop Organisers | |
| 2. A Gramscian framework for participation : Opportunity for Transformative Action ? (tentative title) : Preeti Sampat | |
| Policy Presenter : O P Mathur | |
| Activist Presenter : Lysa John |
| 1.35-3.15pm | SESSION II. PARTICIPATION FOR PRIVATIZATION : Case Studies of Water Sector Reforms in Bangalore and Mumbai |
| 3. Contested Waters : Neighborhood Activism and the Renegotiation of Urban Water Reforms in Bangalore : Malini Ranganathan | |
| 4. Consulting the Public – People’s Participation in the Water Distribution Improvement Project : Zainab Bawa | |
| Policy Presenter : Rajivan Krishnaswamy | |
| Activist Presenter : Vinay Baindur |
| 3.30-5.10pm | SESSION III : CLASS CLAIMS : CIVIL SOCIETY AND SPLIT CITIZENSHIP IN URBAN INDIA. CASE STUDIES FROM MUMBAI AND KOLKATA |
| 5. Urban Services And Social Engineering In Mumbai : Aims, Scope And Outcomes Of Participation : Marie-Helene Zerah | |
| 6. Interrogating The Right To City Space : Civil Society Interventions In Contemporary Kolkata : Keya Dasgupta, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta | |
| Policy Presenter : Mr. Vikram Kapur | |
| Activist Presenter : Simpreet Singh |
| 7-8pm | DINNERTIME LECTURE |
DAY 2
| 9.30-11.10am | SESSION IV. DEMOCRATIZATION, DECENTRALIZATION AND BHAGIDARI. CASE STUDIES FROM DELHI |
| 7. The complex relationship between decentralization, representation and participation in urban governance : Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal | |
| 8. Centralisation By Stealth : A Case Of RWAs In Delhi’s Urban Governance : N. Sridharan | |
| Policy Presenter : Mr. K.T.Ravindran | |
| Activist Presenter : Lalit Batra | |
| 11.30am -1.10pm | SESSION V. POLITICAL CONTOURS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION |
| 9. Community participation and political legitimacy : A case study from Hyderabad : Anant Maringanti | |
| 10. What’s going on in Goa ? Urbanisation, Social Movements and Political Societies : Jason Fernandes | |
| Policy Presenter : Mr. Louis Menezes | |
| Activist Presenter : Nityanand Jayaraman |
| 2.10- 3.50pm | SESSION VI. TRAJECTORIES OF PARTICIPATION |
| 11. Trajectiories Of Participation : Some Notes From The Field In Delhi : Diya Mehra, CSH, Delhi/Univ. of Texas at Austin | |
| Policy Presenter : Mr.Devasahayam | |
| Activist Presenter : Sebastian Devaraj |
| 4.10-6pm | CONCLUDING PANEL |
| Amita Baviskar
Solomon Benjamin Sheila Rani Chunkath John Harriss Chair : Anu Joshi |
Organizers
- Madras Institute of Development Studies
- French Institute of Pondicherry
Funding
The workshop is jointly funded by the Centre for the Future State, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH), N. Delhi and French Institute of Pondicherry.
Coordinators
- Karen Coelho, Faculty, Madras Institute of Development Studies
- Lalitha Kamath, Independent Researcher, Bangalore
- M. Vijayabaskar, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Participants
- Amita Baviskar
- Anant Maringanti
- Anu Joshi
- Devasahayam
- Diya Mehra
- Eric Denis
- Jason Fernandes
- John Harriss
- K.T.Ravindran
- Kamala Marius-Gnanou
- Keya Dasgupta
- Lalit Batra
- Louis Menezes
- Lysa John
- Malini Ranganathan
- Marie-Helene Zerah
- N. Sridharan
- Nityanand Jayaraman
- O. P. Mathur
- Preeti Sampat
- Rajivan Krishnaswamy
- Sebastian Devaraj
- Sheila Rani Chunkath
- Simpreet Singh
- Solomon Benjamin
- Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal
- Vikram Kapur
- Vinay Baindur
- Zainab Bawa
Venue
- Hotel Atithi, N° 126 S.V. Patel Salai, Pondicherry
- French Institute of Pondicherry, 11, Saint Louis Street, Pondicherry – 605001
Dernier ajout : 24 juillet 2009.