Nov 6, 2020 / InfUr Webinar 5 / Gautam Bhan Keynote Lecture: Informality and the Pandemic

GAUTAM BHAN, IIHS, Delhi

Informality and the Pandemic: Thinking about our conceptual vocabularies

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Abstract:

This year has been, in some senses, another marker of the limits of current urban practices and theoretical frameworks to understand as well as anticipate urban realities. This talk will reflect on what the current pandemic has shown us about the lifeworlds that the conceptual diad of formal/informal urbanism has sought to describe, understand and engage with. Drawing from the Indian experience of what happened in these lifewords, the talk will think through what stands, and what stands challenged, in the conceptual work that “informality” helps us do, across both spatial and economic informality in cities of the global south.