[Reader-list] Invitation to monthly seminar series

[Ravi Kumar]

Dear Friends,
The current developments in the city of Delhi is not only changing physical landscape of the city but also about the changing life of laks of people. Yet, there is hardly any voice and even the voices being raised are forcibly drowned in the cacophony of loud, glaring and vulgar conceptualizations of 'development'. But it is a 'development' for whom? What is the logic for such a logic Dunu Roy, a social activist, engaging with such issues in the capital and currently engaging with the coercive displacement of people living along Yamuna will speak on the deeper meanings of such a developmental project at Council for Social Development on 30th April, 2004 at 3:30 PM. Kindly see the text of Invitation pasted below as well as attachment. And please do confirm your participation well in advance. It helps us organize the gatherings in  a better way.

Council for Social Development

cordially invites you to its monthly seminar series 

 

'Discourses in Development' - II

 

Dunu Roy, Hazard Centre, New Delhi

 

will speak on

 

'Pull to Push, Push to Shove: the Changing Face of Delhi'

 

 

Abstract
"The urban economy was characterised by the push-pull factor. In other words, marginalised people were pushed out of the stagnating agricultural economy into the growing demand for labour in the urban areas. However, in the last two decades, the situation appears to have changed significantly in that changing technologies have been creating less jobs in the manufacturing sector and more jobs in the tertiary services sector. This has also meant an
internal push in the urban economy from relatively more secure livelihoods into casual and contractual unorganised forms. Since 1995, the push has turned to shove as urban governance has changed dramatically to deny both livelihoods as well as basic citizenship rights to the urban poor.
"This transformation in the face of the city has been accompanied by three basic processes. Firstly, there has been a remarkable shift in priorities and values orchestrated through disinformation and sustained propaganda. Secondly, the state has gradually withdrawn from provision of basic services while providing for tighter control over social structures. Thirdly, a sense of helplessness in the working population is occasionally superseded by a creative surge of resistance. The city of Delhi displays the backdrop against which this conflict of social forces is played out."

 

 

Date: Friday, 30th April, 2004

Time: 3:30 PM

Venue: Dr. Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Hall, Council for Social Development, 53, Lodi Estate, New Delhi - 110003

 

 

The presentation will be followed by discussion and high tea

Kindly confirm your participation by Monday, 26/04/2004.

 

 

RSVP

Ghazala Shahabuddin/ Ravi Kumar/ Jaya Nair

(2461 5383/ 2461 1700)

jaya_csd at yahoo.co.in

 

 
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