Discussants
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
Researches digital methods, sustainable cities, open source software and the political economy of technology.
Doctoral student, Public Policy Studies (Political Science concentration), Duke University
Research on poverty and inclusive development.
Participants
Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, India
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (Chandigarh)
Historical Anthropologist of the Present, works on street hawkers and other forms of informal labour.
Emeritus Research Director, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Paris Researcher with wide experience of urban planning, urban water conflicts and water supply across Europe, the return of Paris water to public control.
Abigail Brown, USA, resident in France
Doctoral student, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research on marginal communities in Paris, exclusion and their access to water and sanitation
Chris Butler, USA, resident in Nepal
Senior Editor, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Kathmandu
Academic sociologist and organizer brings research experience on policy resistance to development in Nepal.
Adjunct Professor, American University of Paris, Secours Catholique, Saffron Health and Environment
Academic/Practitioner Activist working with excluded populations in Paris.
Professor of Sociology, University of California Santa Cruz
Sociologist of international development, research on poverty, markets, inequality and access to water.
Associate Director, Committee for the Right to Housing, Mumbai
Service Head – La Rochefoucauld Emergency Shelter, Social Emergencies and Accommodation, Association Aurore, Paris
Senior Research Fellow, Architecture and Building Science, University of Nairobi
Economist working on dynamics of residential segregation, pro-poor policies, water and sanitation
Meenoo Kohli, India, resident in USA
Doctoral student, Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research on environmental challenges facing middle class settlement in Delhi
Executive Director, Mazingira (Environment) Institute, Nairobi
Nairobi Activist: NGO championing rights of underprivileged in informal settlements – perspective of activist and NGO approaches to slum upgrading
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Higher Studies in Social Sciences
Sundeep Narwani, India
Member of Aam Aadmi party (ruling party in Delhi) and Co-coordinator of the Delhi Government’s Jhuggi-Jhopri (slum) Wing
Delhi Policy: Involved in state-level policy decisions relating to the urban poor in Delhi
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Nairobi
Virginie Polo, France
Social Action Center Ville de Paris (CASVP)
Executive Director, Inter Disciplinary Analysts (IDA)
Sujit Shrestha, Nepal, resident in USA
Doctoral student, Anthropology, Emory University
Professor of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University
Sociologist of urban change, culture and gender, author of Entangled Urbanism a study of encounters and negotiations between powerless and those with power.
Research Director, Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research
Kathmandu Policy: Work on participatory planning, conflict management, community development and gender