"Structure & Mobility inside a Delhi Slum: 1989-2009" by Dr.Devesh Vijay at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2012
Time : 3:00 pm
Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
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Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on ‘Structure and Mobility inside a Delhi Slum: 1989-2009’ by Dr.Devesh Vijay, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi.
Abstract : Slums constitute the fastest growing segment of many developing countries today. Their weight in the economy and politics of these regions is also likely to increase as diverse communities and classes now seek abode in these congested spaces while authorised housing becomes unaffordable for many. Long term studies of the changing composition and mobility patterns in slums of burgeoning cities like Delhi seems pertinent in this scenario.
As a small contribution in this direction, the present essay draws upon my engagement, since 1988, with a Delhi slum called Aradhaknagar to delineate the complex social stratification that lies behind its seamless exterior, to pinpoint the range of occupations, castes and classes among its approximate 1700 residents today and also to delineate shifts in the occupational, income and consumption profile of the community over the past two decades when economic liberalisation hit government employment hard but increasing competition between political parties spurred new welfare measures too.
While a small improvement in the living standards of organised sector employees is discerned in wage trends as well as assets held by concerned families over the period, further impoverishment among several informal sector workers is also noted. The paper shall try to list factors which pull workers further into poverty and those that help in their struggles to move up within the given order occasionally. A range of such macro and micro processes affecting slum dwellers’ lives has been noted from life sketches, interviews and surveys conducted in 1988-89 and again in 2006-09 in the studied slum.
Speaker : Dr. Devesh Vijay is Associate Professor in the Dept. of History at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. He has written on a range of interdisciplinary themes including comparative cultural history, the left discourse in India and migrant workers in Delhi. For his work on ‘Dalits and Democracy’ Dr. Vijay was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He has also brought out study materials on European history in Hindi. Presently Dr. Vijay is engaged in a study of ‘interfaces’ between labor and the state as reflected in life sketches and interviews conducted in a Delhi slum and a village in western Uttar Pradesh.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served basis)
Place : Seminar Room, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg, New Delhi
Venue Info : Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Station - 'Race Course(Yellow Line)'
Event Details : The Nehru Memorial Museum and Library cordially invites you to The Tuesday Seminar on ‘Structure and Mobility inside a Delhi Slum: 1989-2009’ by Dr.Devesh Vijay, Zakir Husain College, University of Delhi.
Abstract : Slums constitute the fastest growing segment of many developing countries today. Their weight in the economy and politics of these regions is also likely to increase as diverse communities and classes now seek abode in these congested spaces while authorised housing becomes unaffordable for many. Long term studies of the changing composition and mobility patterns in slums of burgeoning cities like Delhi seems pertinent in this scenario.
As a small contribution in this direction, the present essay draws upon my engagement, since 1988, with a Delhi slum called Aradhaknagar to delineate the complex social stratification that lies behind its seamless exterior, to pinpoint the range of occupations, castes and classes among its approximate 1700 residents today and also to delineate shifts in the occupational, income and consumption profile of the community over the past two decades when economic liberalisation hit government employment hard but increasing competition between political parties spurred new welfare measures too.
While a small improvement in the living standards of organised sector employees is discerned in wage trends as well as assets held by concerned families over the period, further impoverishment among several informal sector workers is also noted. The paper shall try to list factors which pull workers further into poverty and those that help in their struggles to move up within the given order occasionally. A range of such macro and micro processes affecting slum dwellers’ lives has been noted from life sketches, interviews and surveys conducted in 1988-89 and again in 2006-09 in the studied slum.
Speaker : Dr. Devesh Vijay is Associate Professor in the Dept. of History at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi. He has written on a range of interdisciplinary themes including comparative cultural history, the left discourse in India and migrant workers in Delhi. For his work on ‘Dalits and Democracy’ Dr. Vijay was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Social Science Research. He has also brought out study materials on European history in Hindi. Presently Dr. Vijay is engaged in a study of ‘interfaces’ between labor and the state as reflected in life sketches and interviews conducted in a Delhi slum and a village in western Uttar Pradesh.
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"Structure & Mobility inside a Delhi Slum: 1989-2009" by Dr.Devesh Vijay at Teen Murti House, Teen Murti Marg > 3pm on 22nd May 2012
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