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SUMMARY:SASNET Seminar with Glyn Williams: "Renegotiating Lockdown: collect
 ive life and the control of Covid-19 in India’s low-income urban neighbo
 urhoods"
DESCRIPTION:Contact: Ted.Svensson@svet.lu.se\n\nChair: Ted SvenssonGlyn Wil
 liams - Lund UniversityResearchMy research is at the interface of human ge
 ography and development studies\, and is concerned with making development
  sensitive to\, and inclusive of\, the agency and practices of socially\, 
 economically and politically marginalised groups. My work has been conduct
 ed in collaboration with partner academics\, particularly in India and Sou
 th Africa\, and supported by a range of research funders (including the ES
 RC\, British Academy\, South Africa’s National Research Foundation and t
 he Norwegian Research Council). Its focus is on the ‘everyday governance
 ’ of development: the ideas and motives behind development projects\, th
 e practices of government and other actors engaged in implementing them\, 
 and the ways these are reworked and contested on the ground. Throughout\, 
 I have explored theoretical debates using detailed\, primarily qualitative
  fieldwork to address three core themes:Marginalisation\, participation an
 d empowerment: This work has looked at the relationship between participat
 ory development and democratisation\, examining participatory governance e
 xperiments in West Bengal and Kerala\, and the links between poverty allev
 iation and social marginalisationDemocracy and political authority: This w
 ork is concerned with how formal structures of governance interact with ho
 w grassroots political authority is expressed. It has shown the importance
  of gender\, caste\, and party-political identity in reshaping the outcome
 s of programmes intended to decentralise government and empower marginalis
 ed groups.Socially just urban transitions: This work has examined agendas 
 for delivering ‘slum free’ cities\, highlighting their effects on poor
 er citizens: disrupting links between their mobility and livelihoods\, dis
 placing them to the urban periphery\, and falling short of promises to del
 iver gender-sensitive and participatory rehousing.Most recently\, my work 
 has looked at the impact of Covid on urban governance\, with fieldwork exp
 loring its effects on low-income communities in Ahmedabad\, Chennai\, &nbs
 p\;and Thiruvananthapuram\, India\, work undertaken through British Academ
 y funding and a Global Exchange Fellowship at Indian Institute of Technolo
 gy Madras.I am the joint editor of International Development Planning Revi
 ew\, and an editorial board member of Contemporary South Asia and Town Pla
 nning Review.I am also an Honorary Associate Professor at School of Archit
 ecture and Planning\, University of the Witwatersrand\, Johannesburg.\n\nM
 ore information about the event: https://www.sasnet.lu.se/calendar/sasnet-
 seminar-glyn-williams-renegotiating-lockdown-collective-life-and-control-c
 ovid-19-indias-low
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