BangaDyn
BangaDyn: Rural-Urban Dynamics in Bangalore
In cooperation with FOR2432, a DFG Research Unit at the Universities of Kassel and Göttingen, the graduate program “BangaDyn: Rural-Urban Dynamics in Bangalore” analyzes transformation processes that affect agriculture, ecology, economy and society in the course of a very rapidly progressing urbanization. The research thereby focuses on socialecological systems in the city of Bangalore in southern India, which is classified as an „emerging megacity“. BangaDyn is part of the Graduate Academy at the University of Kassel. The subproject Rural-urban land use changes across space and time in Bangalore, India investigates new actors, their interrelation and practices in the governing of the Metropolitan region. As thinking of the urban and agrarian as binaries is now widely being challenged, the question becomes how to understand their ambiguous relationship. Scholarship dissolves the binary by often neglecting the agrarian as an analytical category altogether, sometimes seeing the world as universally (sub)urban. Scholars of South Asian urbanism, in contrast, argue that the agrarian is a constituting feature in the production of urban space. Following these lines, this qualitative study investigates everyday land practices of agrarian households and pays particular attention to changing farmer-state/farmer-farmer and farmer-land relations by drawing from fieldwork in a cluster of villages in the hinterland of Bangalore.
Projektlaufzeit: 2017 bis 2020
Förderung: Graduiertenakademie der Uni Kassel
Bearbeiter: Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock, Michael Schwind
Kontakt
Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock
+49 561 804-3225
altrock@asl.uni-kassel.de
Michael Schwind
+49 561 804-3223
michael.schwind[at]uni-kassel[dot]de
Kontakt
Prof. Dr. Uwe Altrock
+49 561 804-3225
altrock@asl.uni-kassel.de
Michael Schwind
+49 561 804-3223
michael.schwind[at]uni-kassel[dot]de