[Reader-list] 8.12.2001: Advertising Bombay
Mumbai Study Group
kshekhar at bol.net.in
Fri Nov 30 16:04:31 IST 2001
Dear Friends:
In our next session, we welcome Dr WILLIAM MAZZARELLA, Lecturer in
the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, U.S.A.,
who will speak on "Critical Publicity/Public Criticism: Reflections
on Fieldwork in the Bombay Ad World".
He will offer a series of reflections based on his experience of
conducting anthropological fieldwork on the Bombay advertising
business. He will examine the ethical and practical contradictions of
this kind of research project, as well as those contradictions
internal to the business itself. The overall aim will be to move
towards a form of critical engagement that understands consumer goods
advertising as a crucial form of public cultural intervention.
Dr William Mazzarella has previously taught at Harvard University,
and at the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed
his Ph.D. in 2000 in Socio-Cultural Anthropology, which was titled
"Shovelling Smoke: The Production of Advertising and the Cultural
Politics of Globalization in Contemporary India". He is the author of
several essays and papers, and a forthcoming monograph from Duke
University Press, on the cultural politics of globalization and the
advertising industry in South Asia.
This session will be on SATURDAY 8 DECEMBER 2001, at 10.00 A.M., on
the SECOND FLOOR, Rachna Sansad, 278, Shankar Ghanekar Marg,
Prabhadevi, Mumbai, next to Ravindra Natya Mandir. Phone: 4301024,
4310807, 4229969; Station: Elphinstone Road (Western Railway); BEST
Bus: 35, 88, 151, 161, 162, 171, 355, 357, 363, to Ravindra Natya
Mandir, 91 Ltd, 305 Ltd, A1 and A4 to Prabhadevi.
MUMBAI STUDY GROUP SESSIONS, 2001-2002
22 DECEMBER 2001
"Shanghai and Mumbai: Sustainability of Development in a Globalizing World"
by Dr Tapati Mukhopadhyay, Siddharth College Dept of Geography, Mumbai
12 JANUARY 2002
"Manufacturing Space: Textile Policy and the Politics of Industrial
Location in Mumbai"
by Harini Narayanan, University of Illinois Dept of Urban Geography,
Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
26 JANUARY 2002
"Food Security in Mumbai and Thane: A Study of the Rationing Kruti Samiti"
by Mayank Bhatt, Journalist and Research Associate, Institute of
Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.
9 FEBRUARY 2002
"Party Politics in Mumbai: A Panel Discussion on the Eve of the Civic
Elections"
Participants to be Announced
23 FEBRUARY 2002
"Mumbai Modern"
by Dr Carol Breckenridge, University of Chicago Dept of History,
Chicago, U.S.A.
9 MARCH 2002
Film Screening of "Jari-Mari: Of Cloth and Other Stories"
Discussion with Surabhi Sharma, Producer and Director
23 MARCH 2002
"Girangaon: The Past, Present and Future of Mumbai's Textile Mills
and Mill Workers"
Participants to be Announced
13 APRIL 2002
"Gender and Space in Mumbai"
by Shilpa Phadke, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, Nirmala Niketan
School of Social Work, Mumbai
and Neera Adarkar, Architect, Adarkar Associates, Mumbai
ABOUT the MUMBAI STUDY GROUP
The MUMBAI STUDY GROUP meets on the second and fourth Saturdays of
every month, at the Rachana Sansad, Prabhadevi, Mumbai, at 10.00 A.M.
Our conversations continue through the support extended by Shri
Pradip Amberkar, Principal of the Academy of Architecture, and Prof
S.H. Wandrekar, Trustee of the Rachana Sansad.
Conceived as an inclusive and non-partisan forum to foster dialogue
on urban issues, we have since September 2000 held conversations
about various historical, political, cultural, social and spatial
aspects of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region. Our discussions are open
and public, no previous membership or affiliation is required. We
encourage the participation of urban researchers and practitioners,
experts and non-experts, researchers and students, and all
individuals, groups and associations in Mumbai to join our
conversations about the the city.The format we have evolved is to
host individual presentations or panel discussions in various fields
of urban theory and practice, and have a moderated and focussed
discussion from our many practical and professional perspectives:
whether as architects or planners, lawyers or journalists, artists or
film-makers, academics or activists.Through such a forum, we hope to
foster an open community of urban citizens, which clearly situates
Mumbai in the theories and practices of urbanism globally.
Previous sessions have hosted presentations by the following individuals:
Kalpana Sharma, Associate Editor of The Hindu; Kedar Ghorpade, Senior
Planner at the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority; Dr
Marina Pinto, Professor of Public Administration, retired from Mumbai
University; Dr K. Sita, Professor of Geography, retired from Mumbai
University, and former Garware Chair Professor at the Tata Institute
of Social Sciences; Dr Arjun Appadurai, Professor of Anthropology at
the University of Chicago, Director of Partners for Urban Knowledge
Action & Research (PUKAR), Mumbai; Rahul Srivastava, Lecturer in
Sociology at Wilson College; Sandeep Yeole, General Secretary of the
All-India Pheriwala Vikas Mahasangh; Dr Anjali Monteiro, Professor
and Head, and K.P. Jayashankar, Reader, from the Tata Institute of
Social Sciences Unit for Media and Communications; Dr Sujata Patel,
Professor and Head, Department of Sociology, University of Pune; Dr
Mariam Dossal, Head, Department of History, Mumbai University;
Sucheta Dalal, business journalist and Consulting Editor, Financial
Express; Dr Arvind Rajagopal, Associate Professor of Culture and
Communications at New York University; Dr Gyan Prakash, Professor of
History at Princeton University, and member of the Subaltern Studies
Editorial Collective; Dr Sudha Deshpande, Reader in Demography,
retired from the Department of Economics, Mumbai University and
former consultant for the World Bank, International Labour
Organisation, and Bombay Municipal Corporation; Sulakshana Mahajan,
doctoral candidate at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.A., and former
Lecturer, Academy of Architecture, Rachana Sansad; Dr Rohini Hensman,
of the Union Research Group, Mumbai; Mrs Jyoti Mhapsekar, Head
Librarian, Rachana Sansad and Member, Stree Mukti Sanghatana.
Previous panel discussions have comprised of the following individuals:
S.S. Tinaikar, former Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, Sheela Patel,
Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres
(SPARC), and Bhanu Desai of the Citizens' Forum for the Protection of
Public Spaces (Citispace) on urban policy making and housing; Shirish
Patel, civil engineer and urban planner, Pramod Sahasrabuddhe and
Abhay Godbole, structural engineers on earthquakes and the built form
of the city; B. Rajaram, Managing Director of Konkan Railway
Corporation, and Dr P.G. Patankar, from Tata Consultancy Services,
and former Chairman of the Bombay Electric Supply & Transport
Undertaking (BEST) on mass public transport alternatives; Ved Segan,
Vikas Dilawari, and Pankaj Joshi, conservation architects, on the
social relevance of heritage and conservation architecture; Debi
Goenka, of the Bombay Environmental Action Group, Professor Sudha
Srivastava, Dr Geeta Kewalramani, and Dr Dipti Mukherji, of the
University of Mumbai Department of Geography, on the politics of land
use, the city's salt pan lands, and the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ)
Act; Nikhil Rao, of the University of Chicago Dept of History,
Anirudh Paul and Prasad Shetty of the Kamala Raheja Vidyanidhi
Insitute of Architecture, and members of the various residents
associations and citizens groups of the Dadar-Matunga, on the
history, architecture, and formation of middle-class communities in
these historic neighbourhoods, the first suburbs of Bombay.
CONTACT US
We invite all urban researchers, practitioners, students, and other
interested individuals to join us in our fortnightly conversations,
and suggest topics for presentation and discussion. For any more
information, kindly contact one of the Joint Convenors of the Mumbai
Study Group: ARVIND ADARKAR, Architect, Researcher and Lecturer,
Academy of Architecture, Phone 2051834, <adarkars at vsnl.com>; DARRYL
D'MONTE, Journalist and Writer, 6427088 <darryl at vsnl.com>; SHEKHAR
KRISHNAN, Coordinator-Associate, Partners for Urban Knowledge Action
& Research (PUKAR), 4462728, <pukar at bol.net.in>; PANKAJ JOSHI,
Conservation Architect, Lecturer, Academy of Architecture, and PUKAR
Associate, 8230625, <pjarch at vsnl.com>.
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