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Organizedby:MajorCollaborativeResearchInitiative(MCRI)

“GlobalSuburbanisms:Governance,LandandInfrastructureinthe21stCentury.”TheCityInstituteatYorkUniversity,Canada

CenterforPoliticalStudies,JawaharlalNehruUniversity(JNU)andJindalSchoolofGovernmentandPublicPolicy

Frontier Urbanism: Tracking Transformation in Agrarian Urban

Hinterlands of South Asia February 23-25, 2017

New Delhi, India

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ThursdayFebruary23

ConventionCenter

08:30–09:00IntroductionandWelcomeRemarks(InthelobbyoftheConventionCenter)09:00–17:00BustourtoGurgaonBuswilldepartat9:00amfromJNU19:00Dinner(Wewillgodirectlyfordinnerafterthetour)

FridayFebruary24LectureHallIConventionCentre

09:00–09:30Tea09:30–10:00OpeningRemarksandIntroductions:

RajarshiDasgupta(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)andShubhraGururani(YorkUniversity)

10:00–11:30Session1-TheAgrarian-UrbanQuestion

Chair:SudhaPai(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)10:00–10:25FarshadAraghi(FloridaAtlanticUniversity)

“TheAgrarianQuestionandtheCity:TheNewHungerRegimeandtheDeepeningCrisisofUnder-Reproduction”

10:25–10:50AndrewNelson(UniversityofNorthTexas)“From‘Wild’FieldstoUrbanFrontier:TheUnevenUrbanizationofKathmanduValley’sPeriphery”

10:50–11:15Discussants:RobertoLuísMonte-Mór(UniversidadeFederaldeMinasGerais-Cedeplar)andSwagatoSarkar(JindalSchoolofGovernmentandPublicPolicy)

11:15–11:30QuestionsandAnswerSession11:30–13:00Session2-CitiesinaWorldofVillages

Chair:MarieHélèneZérah(CenterforPolicyResearch)11:30–11:55ShubhraGururani(YorkUniversity)

“Citiesinaworldofvillages:FromGurgaontoGurugram”11:55–12:20SushmitaPati(AzimPremjiUniversity)

“From Village Land to Urban Real Estate: Tracing the Transformations of ErstwhileVillagesinDelhi”

12:20–12:45Discussants:XuefeiRen(MichiganStateUniversity)andGayatriMenon(AzimPremjiUniversity)

12:45–13:00QuestionandAnswerSession13:00–14:00Lunch

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14:00-15:30Session3-TheLandQuestion

Chair:MuktaNaik(CenterforPolicyResearch)14:00-14:25XuefeiRen(MichiganStateUniversity)

“Landacquisition,ruralprotests,andthelocalstateinChinaandIndia”14:25-14:50SudeshnaMitra(IndianInstituteofHumanSettlement,Bangalore) “PeriurbanNarrativesofLandValue:FromInvestmentstoCompensation"14:50-15:15Discussants:FarshadAraghi(FloridaAtlanticUniversity)andRatoolaKundu

(TISS,SchoolofHabitatStudies)15:15–15:30QuestionandAnswerSession15:30–16:00Tea16:00-17:30Session4-SpeculatingMumbai

Chair:RobertoLuísMonte-Mór(UniversidadeFederaldeMinasGerais-Cedeplar)16:00-16:25MaliniKrishnankutty(TataInstituteofSocialSciences,Mumbai)

“Consumingthevillage:PlanninginducedspeculativeurbanismaroundPanvel,Mumbai”16:25-16:50GayatriMenon(AzimPremjiUniversity)

“Frontiersubjects:EncroachmentandevictionincontemporaryMumbai”16:50-17:15Discussant:Marie-HélèneZérah(CenterforPolicyResearch)17:15–17:30QuestionandAnswerSession19:30Dinner

SaturdayFebruary25LectureHallIConventionCentre

09:00–9:30Tea09:30–11:00Session5-BetweenTownandCountry

Chair:ShubhraGururani(YorkUniversity)09:30–09:55BhuvaneswariRaman(JindalGlobalUniversity)

“TheMicro-PoliticsofTransformingAgrarianLandscapeinChennai’sSouthwestFrontier”09:55–10:20HimadriChatterjee(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)

“LandandLabouratthe‘Borders’ofKolkata:RefugeeLivesin-betweenTownandCountry”10:20–10:45Discussants:RanuBasu(YorkUniversity)andCarolUpadhya(NationalInstitute

ofAdvanceStudies)10:45–11:00QuestionandAnswerSession

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11:00–12:30Session6-CapitalandthePeriurbanChair:GayatriMenon(AzimPremjiUniversity)

11:00–11:25SollyBenjamin(IndianInstituteofTechnology,Chennai)"Capitalconstructacartographicperi-urban"

11:25–11:50RajarshiDasgupta(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)“GenevaCampMuhammadpurandNewSuburbsinDhaka”

11:50–12:15Discussants:JaideepChatterjee(ShivNaderUniversity)andImanMitra(CentreforStudiesinSocialSciences,Kolkata)

12:15–12:30QuestionandAnswerSession12:30–13:30Lunch13:30–15:00Session7-UrbanHeterotopias

Chair:CarolUpadhya(NationalInstituteofAdvanceStudies)13:30–13:55SethSchindler(SheffieldUniversity)

“India'sLiberalizationRaj:Regionalplanning,developmentcorridorsandurbanization”13:55–14:20ShrutiDubey(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)

“Urbanheterotopiasatthefrontiers:ThecaseofKhoracolonyinIndia’sNationalCapitalRegion”

14:20–14:45Discussants:JoãoTonucci(UniversidadeFederaldeMinasGerais-Cedeplar)andNickPhelps(UniversityCollegeLondon)

14:45–15:00QuestionandAnswerSession15:00–15:30TeaBreak15:30–16:30Roundtable-Agrarian-UrbanFrontiers

Moderator:JanakiNair(JawaharlalNehruUniversity)16:30–17:00WorkshopNextSteps(PublicationPlans)andaWordofThanks19:00Dinner

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Vasant Kunj Marg

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Distance from T3, IG International Airport to Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus - 11kms, Estimated Travel Time (ETT)- 23 mins Distance from T3, IG Intermational Airport to India International Centre- 19 kms, ETT- 30 minsDistance from India International Centre to Jawaharlal Nehru University Campus- 10.5 kms, ETT- 24 mins *the ETT is here without Traffic Time Traffic Time: 10-15 mins on avg. (peak hours- 15 mins+)

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