[Reader-list] urban environment workshop: Call for papers

[Ritika]

The call for papers for the Urban Environments Workshop has been 
extended upto 15 september.

November 3 - 4, 2004
Sarai-CSDS, Delhi

The Sarai programme of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, 
Delhi is organizing a workshop on Urban Environments on 3rd and 4th 
November, 2004. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together ideas 
and engagements regarding the issue of environment in the cities of 
South Asia. We hope to generate discussions regarding the conceptual 
tools through which to address urban environments and also concerns 
around specific issues such as water, waste, pollution etc.

In the recent past, environment has emerged as a major issue in urban 
politics in the cities of South Asia that has elicited a fair bit of 
response in the media, and a more limited one within the academia. In 
this workshop we expect to sharpen these debates through a more 
historically situated engagement with the notion of 'urban environment'. 
In our reckoning, there are a wide variety of issues that are covered 
under this rubric - from slums, waste and nuisance to sanitation, parks, 
pollution etc. The analytical frames through which the various issues 
have been understood and acted upon - politically, socially, 
aesthetically etc. - have changed over time. Similarly, the 
institutional arrangements for addressing environmental issues in the
urban context been radically transformed over the last century. In this
workshop we hope to examine both the early environmental legacies - from 
the ideas of Patrick Geddes to the world-view of public health officials 
and planners - and the more contemporary environmental concerns that are
addressed through law and science, to examine both the continuities and
departures in the way cities have dealt with environmental issues in 
modern South Asia.

Those interested in presenting a paper at the workshop are requested to 
send in an abstract by 15th September. We expect the final papers to be 
submitted by 15th October.

Sarai will be able to meet all costs of scholars from India/ South Asia. 
For further inquiries you may contact Awadhendra Sharan 
(sharan at sarai.net) or Ritika Shrimali (ritika at sarai.net).
-- 
Ritika Shrimali
The Sarai Programme

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