[Soasiastudents] Fw: Talk by Saher Romani

[Ashish Nangia]

Attached are the details for Saher Romani's talk on Thursday, May 15, 3:30 pm in Thomson 303. 
There will be chai and samosas. 




Re-writing my Para, my Neighborhood:  Examining a youth critical literacy program in Central Calcutta

In a variety of public discourses, socio-economically underprivileged neighborhoods in urban India are frequently reduced to what Arturo Escobar calls 'placeless abstractions.' Bowbazaar, a neighborhood in central Calcutta, is one such neighborhood perpetually interpreted and constructed as a 'slum'  and 'red-light area' abstraction in a range of discourses from news media to  development. In December 2007, a group of youth living in Bowbazaar participated in a critical literacy program called 'Para Diaries' (Neighborhood Diaries), which encourages literacy as a social practice through neighborhood story-telling.  This ethnographic study examines how urban youth living in Bowbazaar engage in a process of meaning-making through personally imagining and socially constructing their neighborhood.

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