New Forms of Urban Governance: Cases and perspectives from India

9 January 2007, 10:00 - 17:00 hrs
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Organized by Asian Studies in Amsterdam

Room E007 Roeterseiland complex, University of Amsterdam

Morning
Mapping Urban Poverty for Local Governance in three Indian Mega-cities,
By I.S.A. Baud, K. Pfeffer, N. Sridharan, (UvA, SPA Delhi)

Managing Indian Metropolises: changing governance at ward level in Mumbai and Delhi,
J. de Wit, (ISS)

Political Economy of Urban Governance,
N. Sridharan (SPA Delhi) (presented in absentio)

Afternoon
Pawar, Patronage and Politics in Mumbai
Navtej Nainan, (UvA)

‘Negotiated spaces' for representation in Mumbai: ward committees, advanced locality management and the politics of middle-class activism,
I.S.A. Baud and Navtej Nainan

Education in Hyderabad; Governance by Complacency and Privatisation by Default,
Jos Mooij (ISS)

Judicially-induced governance; the case of Delhi
N. Sridharan and J. de Wit

For information and participation please contact: s.visscher@uva.nl