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Maps, movements and mobilities: Facebook and ‘checking-in’ among young men in Pune, India
No full textThis article examines the political significance of Facebook’s check-in feature as used by lower-middle class young men in the western Indian city of Pune. Drawing on the literature on urban transformation and building on the local notion of timepass, I argue that young men produce new spatial configurations of the city on Facebook. In doing so, they make legible their own narrative of what it means to be young in the city as a counterpoise to both the lifestyles of those who frequent Pune’s newer locations of leisure and the educational aspirations that facilitate access to these spaces.</p
The Bazaar, the State, and the Struggle for Public Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Afghanistan
No full textPublic opinion is formed by the information that the public consumes. The state, whether democratic or authoritarian, employs various media of communication to influence people's opinions and behaviours. In the nineteenth century, Afghan rulers would traditionally use force and religion to gain popular support and strengthen their authority. In the second half of the century, they started to use print technology to build their relationships with the public. The state's print, however, had to compete with the institution of the bazaar that had long served as the central place where information circulated in public. This article, drawing mostly on unexamined Afghan sources, offers an account of how the bazaar operated as a source of information and how the Afghan state tried to suppress it. The history of this information conflict uncovers new aspects in the troublesome relationship between the government and the governed in Afghanistan.</p
Decolonizing the Past, Empowering the Future: Community-led Heritage Conservation in Ifugao, Philippines
No full textNational historical narratives generally leave out local histories of groups on the periphery of society. This is accentuated in colonised settings where colonial powers promote the narratives of dominant cultures, which soon become national meta-narratives. As an example, peoples on the fringes of colonialism in the Philippines were described as remnants of the past and this exoticizes their cultures. These descriptions became the basis of their identity. We argue that vigorous community engagement provides venues for learning and unlearning histories and empowers marginalized peoples. In this paper, we present how recent archaeological data force the rethinking of history and subsequently empowering descendant communities to take control of their history and heritage. We describe the establishment of the Ifugao heritage galleries as an example of museums becoming areas of contestations and emphasize the fact that no one has the monopoly on the creation of knowledge.</p
An appeal from the International Design Community to IIM Ahmedabad to stop the demolition of dormitories designed by Louis Kahn
No full textLetters urging the IIM, Ahmedabad to sustain the restoration process to preserve the works of Louis I. Kahn and others
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Decolonizing Architectural Education in India
No full textTable of Contents
Prologue
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Who is an Architect?
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Architecture and University
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Design academia and the profession
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The Enlightened Anchor: Regulating Architectural Education
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The Ailments and Infirmities
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Think out of the box
Epilogue
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Appendix 1: Brief notes on the proposals
Appendix 2: Academic Sequence
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Heterogeneous water provision in Dar es Salaam: The role of networked infrastructures and alternative systems in informal areas
No full textUrban waterscapes in developing world cities are notoriously fragmented, resembling archipelagos rather than continuous networks. Graham and Marvin’s concept of splintering urbanism links the collapse of infrastructure networks to this fragmentation. Yet this idea has been criticized for suggesting the absence of these networks is a sign of failed modernity in Southern cities such as Dar es Salaam. Urban political ecology illustrates how social, historical, political, and ecological processes work together to create uneven and unjust landscapes and waterscapes. In Dar es Salaam, the colonial policy of segregation and unequal service provision helped to create the fragmented system seen today. As a result, many residents—especially those in informal and peripheral areas—rely on heterogeneous water provision systems. These systems provide innovative ways to deliver water but do so at a high cost. This paper uses case studies of two informal areas—Buguruni and Vingunguti—to illustrate the divergent trajectories of seemingly similar places. One is more connected to the piped water network while the other relies almost exclusively on informal water delivery providers. In explaining these differences, this paper offers an intra-urban comparison that highlights inequities at a smaller scale. It also acknowledges the role of networked infrastructure in these heterogeneous systems by giving voice to residents who consider the piped water network their ideal source.</p