4-0950 WANNABE CITIES: EVERYDAY STRIVINGS AND EMERGENT URBANISMS

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Timothy E Murphy (University of California, Davis)

Chairs: Bascom Guffin (University of California, Davis)

Discussants: Li Zhang (UC Davis) and Arafaat A Valiani (Williams College)

13:45

Ain't No Love for the City of Brotherly Love?: Engaging Scale and Migrant Incorporation In Philadelphia

Diane R Garbow (Temple University)

14:00

Marginality In Central Locations: The Paradox of Living In Not-Quite Metropolis Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Anne S Lewinson (Berry College)

14:15

Landscapes of Failure: Examining Countryside and Cityscape In Detroit

Nicholas Lawrence Caverly (The New School for Social Research)

14:30

Chronic Conditions: Urban Lives and the Politics of Place within An Industrial Miasma

Nicholas S Welcome (University of California, Riverside)

14:45

The Master Plan of Astana: Between the “Art of Government” and the “Art of Being Global”

Alima Z Bissenova (Cornell University)

15:00

Discussant

Li Zhang (UC Davis)

15:15

Discussion

15:30

Break

15:45

Doing the Dirty Work: Urban Citizenship & the Postindustrial Transformation of Detroit

Leah Wiste (University of California, Davis)

16:00

The Role of Megaprojects In the Making of a World Class City:the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project In Ahmedabad

Sangeeta Banerji (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)

16:15

The Importance of Unimportance: Middle-Class Belonging In An Emergent Somewhere

Timothy E Murphy (University of California, Davis)

16:30

“¡Guayaquil Vive Por Tí!” Aspirational Urbanism and Citizenship As Moral Imperative

Lorien R Olive (Duke University)

16:45

Multifarious Mobilities of a New Middle Class In Cyberabad

Bascom Guffin (University of California, Davis)

17:00

Discussant

Arafaat A Valiani (Williams College)

17:15

Discussion

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