This lecture focussed on a social history of rent to examine new questions of economy and spatial transformation in cities of global south. The ways in which a dominant caste uses its historically informed ways of association to invest and find ways of accumulation in the new economy is the major focus through which to understand Delhi’s changing spatial context, wherein urban villages have evolved into commercial/manufacturing spaces and as spaces that provide housing for the precariat working class.

Sushmita Pati has been teaching at Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, since 2016. Currently she is a postdoctoral fellow at ICAS-MP in New Delhi where she is working on her book manuscript on urban villages of Delhi. Her larger area of interest lies in working at the intersection of urban political economy and urban politics. Some of her published works have appeared in journals like Economic and Political Weekly and Contributions to Indian Sociology.

Chair:

Awadhendra Sharan is a Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.

Friday, 4 October 2019
4.30 pm, CSDS Seminar Room
29 Rajpur Road, Delhi