Collective Action, Community Building and Participatory Mapping in Mumbai

This talk foregrounds two stories of collective action around making the Mumbai Master Plan (2014-34) more accessible and inclusive. Focusing on both city-wide and community-level scales, the stories reveal the crucial role played by participatory mapping and the ‘ordinary’ expertise of communities. This reorients our thinking away from plan as artefact to plan as practiced in deeply unequal and contested spaces.

Lalitha Kamath is a Professor at the Centre for Urban Policy and Governance at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Mumbai. Her research interests centre on urbanisation, urban governance and planning, urban politics and informality. She has also engaged with questions of public participation and citizen collective action. She is visiting Roskilde University for the week from our Critical Edge Alliance partner university in Mumbai, the Tata Institute of Social Science.

Registration

The talk is primarily for Masters students in Nordic Urban Planning Studies but all are very welcome, no need to register.