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Accepted Paper:
The promise of the urban education: Exploring educational aspirations of the urban poor in Delhi.
Sriti Ganguly
(O.P. Jindal Global University)
Paper short abstract:
I would like to discuss the educational aspirations of the poor and working-class vis a vis their imagination of the city. The paper foregrounds the pursuit and desire for mobility and belongingness in a city that is striving for world-classness.
Paper long abstract:
In the popular imagination, the two words 'education' and 'city' have often evoked a sense of optimism and liberation. It is a hope for a better life and liberation from disadvantages and stigmatized identities. Dr. B.R Ambedkar, for instance, was optimistic that the city held the promise of emancipation for the Dalits. These two concepts are also associated frequently with progress, civilization and are oriented towards the future, a better future. It is not only material progress but about the very sense of being. This paper explores the educational aspiration of the marginalized residents in a squatter settlement of Delhi and how the city figures in their desires. Delhi has received considerable attention from scholars working on the social and spatial relations in the city. In a city that aspires to become a world-class space, how the working class and poor, often the recipients of state violence, articulate their aspirations for a better future through the pursuit of education is the focus of this paper. In doing so, the paper goes beyond the narratives of exclusion, violence against the poor and class antagonism. The paper emerges from my doctoral work, an ethnographic study in a 40-year-old, multigenerational, poor neighbourhood of Delhi.
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Accepted Paper:
Sriti Ganguly (O.P. Jindal Global University)
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
In the popular imagination, the two words 'education' and 'city' have often evoked a sense of optimism and liberation. It is a hope for a better life and liberation from disadvantages and stigmatized identities. Dr. B.R Ambedkar, for instance, was optimistic that the city held the promise of emancipation for the Dalits. These two concepts are also associated frequently with progress, civilization and are oriented towards the future, a better future. It is not only material progress but about the very sense of being. This paper explores the educational aspiration of the marginalized residents in a squatter settlement of Delhi and how the city figures in their desires. Delhi has received considerable attention from scholars working on the social and spatial relations in the city. In a city that aspires to become a world-class space, how the working class and poor, often the recipients of state violence, articulate their aspirations for a better future through the pursuit of education is the focus of this paper. In doing so, the paper goes beyond the narratives of exclusion, violence against the poor and class antagonism. The paper emerges from my doctoral work, an ethnographic study in a 40-year-old, multigenerational, poor neighbourhood of Delhi.
Urban Imaginaries of Prosperity: Ethics and Futurity
Session 1 Wednesday 6 July, 2022, -