Hosted by: Sarandha Jain

How do flows of people, things, resources, natural substances encounter infrastructure, and what does that do to arrangements of citizenship? How is the state involved in these encounters and arrangements? Addressing these questions, the second dialogue in the seminar series “Flows, Infrastructure and Citizenship in India and China“, is between Ritajyoti Bandhyopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, and Yimin Zhao, Assistant Professor of Urban Planning and Management at Renmin University of China, facilitated by Antina von Schnitzler, Associate Professor of International Affairs at The New School. While still emphasizing the triadic interface between flows, infrastructure, and citizenship, the speakers here underscore flows more, and discuss what they mean in relation to infrastructure and citizenship, and how that relationship shapes and is shaped by the state, in India and China. (Please see the full description of this series for a detailed understanding of the dialogues).

Presentation titles: 

Ritajyoti Bandhyopadhyay – “Dialectics of the Capitalist Urban Process: Infrastructure and Human Action in Twentieth-Century Calcutta”

Yimin Zhao – “Flows of People, Flows of Water, and Flows of Cars: The Political Infrastructure of (non-)Citizenship”

Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Assistant Professor
Humanities and Social Sciences
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

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Yimin Zhao
Assistant Professor
Urban Planning and Management
RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA

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