[Reader-list] Students Stipends Workshop for Research on the City

[Danny Butt]

Kia ora,

I'd like to express my appreciation to Jeebesh, the Sarai programme and the
students for sharing the results of this panel. As discussed at your panel,
the question of who is allowed to produce knowledge is crucial, also
important is how knowledge is permitted to travel, and what knowledge we
encounter in the boundaries created through our own disciplinary practices
and interests (even those of us in interdisciplinary fields). For me, the
report is an exciting document of both Sarai's commitment to fostering the
open circulation of knowledge, and also to the quality and sophistication of
the work being carried out by young researchers in the region. I think many
would agree that such thoughtful engagement with questions of
disciplinarity, methodology, and social change are rare in the "Western
academic system". I look forward to continuing encounters with the work of
the participants in the future!

Best regards,

Danny


On 9/24/04 7:27 PM, "Jeebesh Bagchi" <jeebesh at sarai.net> wrote:

> Students Stipends Workshop for Research on the City
> 19-20 August 2004
> Sarai-CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi 110054
> 
> Each year the Sarai programme supports young research students for
> short-term studentships to facilitate research on urban life in South
> Asia. The process includes a public call for applications in
> September-October, a teaching workshop for selected students, and a
> public presentation of the research in August, at Sarai. The programme
> encourages practice-based and cross-disciplinary research, as well as
> research in the traditional academic mode.

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