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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land\, Housing\, Air: Deciphering Urban Governance in China and India
DESCRIPTION:This talk is part of a book project that comparatively examines how cities in China and India have become strategic terrains for the remaking of citizen rights. The book is based on historical-comparative analyses and ethnographic fieldwork on land grabs\, slum evictions\, and clean-air campaigns in five urban regions in China and India (Delhi\, Mumbai\, Kolkata\, Beijing\, and Guangzhou). \n    \nXuefei Ren (Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies) is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development\, governance\, architecture\, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author two award-winning books--\"Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China\" (2011) and \"Urban China\" (2013). She is also the lead editor of \"Globalizing Cities Reader\" (2017\, Routledge). Currently she is working on a number of new projects\, including a book comparing urban governance and citizen rights in China and India\, a photo-documentary of Detroit and China’s rust-belt cities\, and a series of comparative articles examining informal settlements\, mega-events\, and spectacles in cities in Brazil\, China\, and India. In 2016-2017\, she is a Frederick Burkhardt residential fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Ren received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/37103
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Chinese Studies,History,South Asian Studies
LOCATION:School of Social Work Building - Room 1636
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