INVITATION
The Centre for Urban Policy and Governance at the School of Habitat Studies,

TISS Invites you to a special talk on:

“Citizenship and Service Delivery in Urban India: A comparative survey of Indian cities”

By Prof. Patrick Heller (Professor of International and Public Affairs, Brown University), Bhanu Joshi (PhD candidate at Brown University) and Prof. Ashutosh Varshney ( Professor of Political Science at Brown University).

Prof. Amita Bhide, Centre for Urban Policy and Governance will moderate the talk.

Date: 1st August, 2022, Monday

Time: 4:00 pm onwards ( Tea on the Terrace followed by the Presentation)
Venue: Library Conference Hall, TISS

Abstract:
To understand the relationship between the quality of citizenship, essential services, and infrastructure delivery in cities across India, Brown University (USA) and Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy (India) have formed a research partnership and developed a research project exploring urban governance and the practice of citizenship in Indian cities.  The project seeks to survey 17 cities in India with a total sample size of 38,000 households.  In this presentation we report on our data from 7 cities - Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Vadodara, Bhavnagar, and Kochi. In this presentation we review preliminary findings on the scope and quality of basic services, the nature of citizenship as measured by both political and civic participation and disaggregate all our finding by social categories.  Focusing on Mumbai we highlight significant forms of differentiated citizenship both in terms of access to basic services and how citizens from different social categories engage with politics and the state.  We also explore the spatial dimensions of these differences.

Speaker Bios:
Patrick Heller  is the Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences and professor of Sociology and International Studies. He is the author of The Labor of Development: Workers in the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India (Cornell 1999) and co-author of Social Democracy and the Global Periphery (Cambridge 2006), Bootstrapping Democracy: Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil (Stanford 2011) and most recently, Deliberation and Development: Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies.

Bhanu Joshi is a PhD candidate in the Political Science department at Brown University.  He previously worked at the Centre for Policy Research in Delhi.  He is currently doing his dissertation research on urban governance in Bhopal and Lucknow.

Ashutosh Varshney is Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Brown University, where he also directs the Center for Contemporary South Asia.   His books include Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy (2013), Collective Violence in Indonesia (2009), Ethnic Conflict and Civic Life: Hindus and Muslims in India (Yale 2002), India in the Era of Economic Reforms (1999), and Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge 1995).

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Link to the poster:
https://cccloud.tiss.edu/index.php/s/0rQqK45255TRUVi