Stop Or Go: The Social Dynamics of Urban Movement
Organized by PUKAR in collaboration with the Max Planck Insitute (MPI) for the study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, this year’s Winter Institute aimed to deal with notions of movement throughout the city, including traffic, religious processions, transport, connectivity and everything that stops or delays movement.
Larger processes of movement like migration and attempts to stem it, as well as gated communities, no-go areas, and forms of surveillance of movement (no loitering, for instance) were discussed over the five day workshop. Participants looked at cities as theatres of motion and mobility, which inspire the possibility of moving up, in or around while their materialities may also be moving in, down or out.
Scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, other social scientists from Germany, New York, Shaghai, Singapoore, Hongkong and the Netherlands participated in the conference along with young PhD candidates from TISS and PUKAR’s barefoot researchers.
