Our first workshop with NAGARA was held on August 1, 2015 at the residency program at T.A.J.:
http://t-a-j.in/A-B-O-U-T. Based on the success of the first workshop, we hope this will be an annual event!
Description
In the past few decades official, corporate, and middle class aspirations for Bangalore’s many pasts and potential futures have sedimented into a range of monikers for the city including Garden City, Kannada City, Pub City, IT City, Start Up City, and others whose discourses are sometimes in conflict with each other.
Many of these constructions and productions of city space subsume everyday affects, spatial and cultural practices, and social relationships within a singular and monologic—often modernist and secular—narrative. How can we better understand the complexities of Bangalore’s pasts and the ways in which they mark the present or desires for the future? How is everyday life produced in the shadow of these aspirations for global technoscientific futures and their negations? What are some of the many alternate ways of imagining and living in Bangalore today?
This summer the Bangalore Research Network and NAGARA invite scholars and ethnographers of Bangalore to share recently-completed or advanced stage research in a one-day workshop facilitated by Hemangini Gupta and Smriti Srinivas on August 1, 2015 at T.A.J. Residency ( http://t-a-j.in/A-B-O-U-T). Our goal is to take stock of the field of “Bangalore Studies” over the last few decades and also to consider its future directions.
Questions addressed may include (but are not limited to):
What are the histories of and the religious, scientific, corporate, activist, bureaucratic, artistic, performative, spatial, intimate and domestic lifeworlds that congeal in and around the different cities that constitute contemporary Bangalore?
What relations, affects, and practices emerge in the public and private or religious and technological—and dissolve the boundaries between them—as Bangalore embraces new spatial forms and modes of living?
How are urban space and ecology appropriated in creative ways that exceed or repurpose official or corporate arrangements of work and leisure?
We particularly look forward to ethnographic research grounded in traditions of anthropological, cultural, sociological, historical, gendered, and performance frameworks.
http://t-a-j.in/A-B-O-U-T. Based on the success of the first workshop, we hope this will be an annual event!
Description
In the past few decades official, corporate, and middle class aspirations for Bangalore’s many pasts and potential futures have sedimented into a range of monikers for the city including Garden City, Kannada City, Pub City, IT City, Start Up City, and others whose discourses are sometimes in conflict with each other.
Many of these constructions and productions of city space subsume everyday affects, spatial and cultural practices, and social relationships within a singular and monologic—often modernist and secular—narrative. How can we better understand the complexities of Bangalore’s pasts and the ways in which they mark the present or desires for the future? How is everyday life produced in the shadow of these aspirations for global technoscientific futures and their negations? What are some of the many alternate ways of imagining and living in Bangalore today?
This summer the Bangalore Research Network and NAGARA invite scholars and ethnographers of Bangalore to share recently-completed or advanced stage research in a one-day workshop facilitated by Hemangini Gupta and Smriti Srinivas on August 1, 2015 at T.A.J. Residency ( http://t-a-j.in/A-B-O-U-T). Our goal is to take stock of the field of “Bangalore Studies” over the last few decades and also to consider its future directions.
Questions addressed may include (but are not limited to):
What are the histories of and the religious, scientific, corporate, activist, bureaucratic, artistic, performative, spatial, intimate and domestic lifeworlds that congeal in and around the different cities that constitute contemporary Bangalore?
What relations, affects, and practices emerge in the public and private or religious and technological—and dissolve the boundaries between them—as Bangalore embraces new spatial forms and modes of living?
How are urban space and ecology appropriated in creative ways that exceed or repurpose official or corporate arrangements of work and leisure?
We particularly look forward to ethnographic research grounded in traditions of anthropological, cultural, sociological, historical, gendered, and performance frameworks.
Many thanks to TAJ Residency for hosting the BRN-NAGARA workshop, 2015! Here are some photographs, and the itinerary.