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Today's Topics:
1. 13.4.2002: Gender and Space (Mumbai Study Group)
2. 13.4.2002: CORRECTION (Mumbai Study Group)
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Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 19:23:33 +0530
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From: Mumbai Study Group <kshekhar at bol.net.in>
Subject: [Announcements] 13.4.2002: Gender and Space
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<div>Dear Friends:<br>
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<div>In our next meeting, we invite you to a presentation by SHILPA
PHADKE on "Gender and Space in Mumbai". This presentation
interrogates the exclusion of women from public space. It does this
through an examination of the public-private divide and the image of
the "public woman" as potentially criminal. It dwells at
length on the ways in which architecture and urban planning reinforce
existing hierarchies of access to space and power and the structural
and symbolic violences that women are subject to in public space. It
also explores the "market" as a potential site for the
subversive entry of women into public space.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font color="#000000">SHILPA PHADKE is a sociologist and an
Associate of PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research),
Mumbai. She has been a researcher with the Economic and Political
Weekly Research Foundation, Mumbai, and has lectured at the Nirmala
Niketan School of Social Work, Mumbai, and at St Xavier's College,
Mumbai. She completed her B.A. from St Xavier's College in 1993, her
M.A. from SNDT Women's University in 1995, both in Sociology, and her
MPhil in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University in
1997. As a pedagogue, she has designed and co-ordinated several
discussion groups, a lecture series and a film-festival. She has been
involved in a number of research projects including an examination of
the role of NGOs in enhancing community participation in the
Government of Maharashtra's Earthquake Relief and Rehabilitation
programme in the districts of Latur and Osmanabad in 1995; and an
audience feedback study for the documentary film<i> A Woman's
Place</i> in 2000. She has published in the area of population
policies, and has written for the popular press, including Internet
magazines. Her areas of concern include demography and population
policies, feminist legal studies, gender and the politics of space,
sexuality and the body, cultural and media studies, and development
issues in the context of globalization. Her current interests are in
pedagogy and outreach to school and college students, and in exploring
the gendered dimensions of public space in Mumbai.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Architect and cultural activist NEERA
ADARKAR</font> will also address this session and present her work on
the gendered aspects of public and private spaces in Mumbai.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>This session will be on SATURDAY 14 APRIL 2002, 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.</div>
<div><br></div>
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<div>ANNOUNCEMENTS</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>With effect after the upcoming session, Shekhar Krishnan, Joint
Convenor of the Mumbai Study Group since its inception in September
2000, will be permanently resigning as Convenor. He will be handing
responsibility for the management of the Group to the other Convenors,
Arvind Adarkar, Pankaj Joshi and Darryl D'Monte. Shekhar is leaving
the Group to spend more time pursuing his research and writing, and
his continuing work as Coordinator of PUKAR (Partners for Urban
Knowledge Action and Research) in Mumbai. He wishes to express his
gratitude to the Academy of Architecture, and to the other Convenors
for their support and assistance over the past two years. He looks
forward to attending future sessions of the Group and continuing to
participate in its activities.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>Also following this session, the Mumbai Study Group will take a
long holiday, until the next session on Saturday 22 June, in order to
take stock of the past year's activities, and schedule new
presentations in coming months<b>.</b> Any suggestions for future
sessions should be directed to one of the three Convenors (see below).
At the request of Mayank Bhatt, his presentation to the Group,
previously scheduled for 27 April 2002 on "Food Security in
Mumbai and Thane: A Study of the Rationing Kruti Samiti", has
been cancelled.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br>
ABOUT the MUMBAI STUDY GROUP<br>
<br>
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.<br>
</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div><br>
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CONTACT US<br>
</div>
<div>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 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), 4142843, <kshekhar at bol.net.in>; PANKAJ JOSHI,
Conservation Architect, Lecturer, Academy of Architecture, and PUKAR
Associate, 8230625, <pjarch at vsnl.com>.</div>
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 00:04:23 +0530
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From: Mumbai Study Group <kshekhar at bol.net.in>
Subject: [Announcements] 13.4.2002: CORRECTION
Dear Friends:
The date given in the contents of the last e-mail was wrong. Shilpa
Phadke and Neera Adarkar's presentation on "Gender and Space in
Mumbai" will be on SATURDAY 13 APRIL 2002, not on 14 April 2002, as
given in the invitation.
It will be 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.
Thanks to Radhika Ramasubban for pointing out the error!
Regards,
Shekhar Krishnan, Arvind Adarkar, Darryl D'Monte and Pankaj Joshi
Convenors, Mumbai Study Group
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