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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The NIAS Urban Research and Policy Programme is organising a special lecture by *Anant Maringanti. *All are welcome. Title: *Development of anti development: Coming to terms with neoliberal globalization in Hyderabad*. * ** *Date: *Thursday, January 15* Time: *3.30 p.m*. Venue: *Conference Room # 2, New Faculty Block*, National Institute of Advanced Studies (IISc Campus, Bangalore) *Abstract: *During the 80s and 90s, while western academia was caught in a swirl of debates on development and its eurocentrism, in the developing world itself, academic and popular debates often focused on the ways in which the public sphere was gradually being populated by new actors known as NGOs. These new actors – agents of development action, posed a challenge to bureaucrats, politicians and traditional actors like social movements and political parties. Yet, social scientific literature by and large remained highly ambivalent about the role played by NGOs. In the first decade of the 21st century, however, when the term NGO applies to a bewildering array of institutional entities, normative readings of NGO action is meaningless except when accompanied by elaborate qualifications. Based on a case study of an environmental movement that turned into an urban housing rights NGO in Hyderabad in the last decade, and building on critical ethnographies of NGOs and state led development efforts in India and elsewhere, I chart out some of the dramatic transformations that have occurred in the terrain over which 'development' and opposition to its exclusions are currently articulated. Specifically, I will suggest that the transnational circuits through which discourses of development, anti development, participatory development and citizenship circulate, challenge us to develop new spatial grammars for conducting effective civic action and theorize state-society relations. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *About the Speaker:* Dr. Anant Maringanti is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Minnesota. His research interests include globalization, urban development, social movements, transnational networks and subaltern politics. -- Dr. Carol Upadhya Fellow, School of Social Sciences National Institute of Advanced Studies Indian Institute of Science Campus Bangalore 560012 India office: +91 80 2218 5000/ 5141 (ext) cell: +91(0) 97408 50141 [email protected] [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Citizens' Action Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/citizens-action-forum?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
