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Today's Topics:
1. 12.1.2002: Manufacturing Space (Mumbai Study Group)
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Subject: [Announcements] 12.1.2002: Manufacturing Space
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<div>Dear Friends:<br>
</div>
<div>In our next session, we welcome HARINI NARAYANAN, urban
geographer and journalist, who will speak on "MANUFACTURING
SPACE: TEXTILE POLICY and the POLITICS of INDUSTRIAL LOCATION in
MUMBAI".<font color="#000000"> Her current research and
field-work focusses on the manner in which government policy related
to land use in Mumbai is negotiated and formulated, viewed from the
perspective of those who are most affected by it. Her core research
site and study period is the textile mill districts of Central Bombay
in the 1990s, situated in a wider historical frame that goes back to
the beginnings of the cotton textile mill industry in the
mid-nineteenth century. Parallel to this, she is conducting research
into the housing market, the Urban Land Ceiling Act, and its effects
on the urban economy.</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Harini Narayanan is currently completing
her Ph.D. in Urban Geography from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. She is an Associate with PUKAR (Partners for
Urban Knowledge Action and Research), Mumbai. She completed her B.A.
in English from Women's Christian College, Madras, and her M.S. in
Journalism, from the University of Illinois, U.S.A. She worked for ten
years as a journalist at the<i> Times of India</i>, Mumbai,<i> The
Bombay Magazine</i>, and the<i> Economic Times</i>. She has presented
papers at conferences in the U.S. and in India on the legal and policy
aspects of the industrial and spatial restructuring of
Mumbai. </font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>This session will be on SATURDAY 12 JANUARY 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>
<div><br></div>
<div>MUMBAI STUDY GROUP SESSIONS</div>
<div><br>
26 JANUARY 2002<br>
"Food Security in Mumbai and Thane: A Study of the Rationing
Kruti Samiti"<br>
by Mayank Bhatt, Journalist and Research Associate, Institute of
Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.<br>
<br>
9 FEBRUARY 2002<br>
"Party Politics in Mumbai: A Panel Discussion on the Eve of the
Civic Elections"<br>
Participants to be Announced<br>
<br>
23 FEBRUARY 2002<br>
"Mumbai Modern"<br>
by Dr Carol Breckenridge, University of Chicago Dept of History,
Chicago, U.S.A.<br>
<br>
9 MARCH 2002<br>
Film Screening of "Jari-Mari: Of Cloth and Other
Stories"<br>
Discussion with Surabhi Sharma, Producer and Director<br>
<br>
23 MARCH 2002<br>
"Girangaon: The Past, Present and Future of Mumbai's Textile
Mills and Mill Workers"<br>
Participants to be Announced<br>
<br>
13 APRIL 2002<br>
"Gender and Space in Mumbai"<br>
by Shilpa Phadke, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, Nirmala Niketan
School of Social Work, Mumbai</div>
<div>and Neera Adarkar, Architect, Adarkar Associates, Mumbai<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.</div>
<div><br>
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.<br>
<br>
Previous sessions have hosted presentations by the following
individuals:<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Previous panel discussions have comprised of the following
individuals:<br>
<br>
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.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><br>
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 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), 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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