BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:255a8ff7eb16b5f6211d5aeb8ae29b9d DTSTAMP:20260612T082612Z SUMMARY:SASNET Seminar with Glyn Williams: "Renegotiating Lockdown: collect ive life and the control of Covid-19 in India’s low-income urban neighbo urhoods" DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: Ted.Svensson@svet.lu.se\n\nChair: Ted SvenssonAbstract :COVID lockdowns aimed to stop movement and dilute social proximity\, and as such were a disruptive moment globally. This was particularly so for lo w-income neighbourhoods of the Global South\, where intense interaction is an essential part of everyday social reproduction. While the resulting te nsion between disease control and the 'collective life' of these communiti es is widely recognised\, this paper focuses on how it was resolved in pra ctice. How did governments imagine and seek to exercise spatial control in low-income neighbourhoods\, and how did these communities respond? It exa mines the state’s lockdown strategies in three cities (Ahmedabad\, Chenn ai\, Thiruvananthapuram) focusing on their impact on the cities' working-c lass communities. The different experiences across our cities and between the neighbourhoods of our study show that lockdowns were both partial and uneven in their effects\, and subject to continual change. These differenc es in turn highlight potential pathways through which forms of emergency i ntervention more attuned to these communities’ needs could be renegotiat ed \;in future.Glyn Williams - Lund UniversityResearchMy research is a t the interface of human geography and development studies\, and is concer ned with making development sensitive to\, and inclusive of\, the agency a nd practices of socially\, economically and politically marginalised group s. My work has been conducted in collaboration with partner academics\, pa rticularly in India and South Africa\, and supported by a range of researc h funders (including the ESRC\, British Academy\, South Africa’s Nationa l Research Foundation and the Norwegian Research Council). Its focus is on the ‘everyday governance’ of development: the ideas and motives behin d development projects\, the practices of government and other actors enga ged in implementing them\, and the ways these are reworked and contested o n the ground. Throughout\, I have explored theoretical debates using detai led\, primarily qualitative fieldwork to address three core themes:Margina lisation\, participation and empowerment: This work has looked at the rela tionship between participatory development and democratisation\, examining participatory governance experiments in West Bengal and Kerala\, and the links between poverty alleviation and social marginalisationDemocracy and political authority: This work is concerned with how formal structures of governance interact with how grassroots political authority is expressed. It has shown the importance of gender\, caste\, and party-political identi ty in reshaping the outcomes of programmes intended to decentralise govern ment and empower marginalised groups.Socially just urban transitions: This work has examined agendas for delivering ‘slum free’ cities\, highlig hting their effects on poorer citizens: disrupting links between their mob ility and livelihoods\, displacing them to the urban periphery\, and falli ng short of promises to deliver gender-sensitive and participatory rehousi ng.Most recently\, my work has looked at the impact of Covid on urban gove rnance\, with fieldwork exploring its effects on low-income communities in Ahmedabad\, Chennai\,  \;and Thiruvananthapuram\, India\, work undert aken through British Academy funding and a Global Exchange Fellowship at I ndian Institute of Technology Madras.I am the joint editor of Internationa l Development Planning Review\, and an editorial board member of Contempor ary South Asia and Town Planning Review.I am also an Honorary Associate Pr ofessor at School of Architecture and Planning\, University of the Witwate rsrand\, Johannesburg.\n\nMer information om händelsen: https://www.svet. lu.se/evenemang/sasnet-seminar-glyn-williams-renegotiating-lockdown-collec tive-life-and-control-covid-19-indias-low DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260520T111500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260520T123000 LOCATION:Eden 367 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR