LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Land, Housing, Air: Deciphering Urban Governance in China and India
Xuefei Ren, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies, Michigan State University
This talk is part of a book project that comparatively examines how cities in China and India have become strategic terrains for the remaking of citizen rights. The book is based on historical-comparative analyses and ethnographic fieldwork on land grabs, slum evictions, and clean-air campaigns in five urban regions in China and India (Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Beijing, and Guangzhou).
Xuefei Ren (Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies) is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author two award-winning books--"Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China" (2011) and "Urban China" (2013). She is also the lead editor of "Globalizing Cities Reader" (2017, Routledge). Currently she is working on a number of new projects, including a book comparing urban governance and citizen rights in China and India, a photo-documentary of Detroit and China’s rust-belt cities, and a series of comparative articles examining informal settlements, mega-events, and spectacles in cities in Brazil, China, and India. In 2016-2017, she is a Frederick Burkhardt residential fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Ren received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
Xuefei Ren (Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Urban Studies) is a comparative urbanist whose work focuses on urban development, governance, architecture, and the built environment in global perspective. She is the author two award-winning books--"Building Globalization: Transnational Architecture Production in Urban China" (2011) and "Urban China" (2013). She is also the lead editor of "Globalizing Cities Reader" (2017, Routledge). Currently she is working on a number of new projects, including a book comparing urban governance and citizen rights in China and India, a photo-documentary of Detroit and China’s rust-belt cities, and a series of comparative articles examining informal settlements, mega-events, and spectacles in cities in Brazil, China, and India. In 2016-2017, she is a Frederick Burkhardt residential fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies. Ren received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
| Building: | School of Social Work Building |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | Chinese Studies, History, South Asian Studies |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, International Institute, Center for South Asian Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures |
