Upcoming Book Talk with Carol Upadhya

Carol Upadhya, a social anthropologist, has researched and published widely on a range of social transformations related to development, economic change, urbanization, provincial capital, labor, and migration in contemporary India. Carol will be visiting UMN to lead a book talk on her recent book, "Urbanizing the Future: A New City Project in Agrarian South India"

This book talk draws on the new capital city in Andhra Pradesh, India, which examines the political ambition to build a hyper-modern "greenfield city" in an agrarian landscape and the aspirations, exclusions, and conflicts that it spawned. 

The question for discussion is: What kind of urban future will this form of development create for India?

Co-sponsored by: IGS, IAS, ICGC, Sociology, CSCL, Anthropology, Geography, and GWSS.