From shekhar at MIT.EDU Wed Apr 26 00:44:57 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:44:57 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Sex, Work and Migration Message-ID: <444EFAC9.4070902@mit.edu> Dear All: We will meet next on Tuesday 2 May in MIT Building E-51 Room 393 at 7.30 p.m. to discuss the texts listed below. We will begin with a presentation by Svati Shah and continue with discussion of texts on the politics of urban labour and work, sexual commerce, and migration in globalising cities of the South. Please note that this meeting is only a week away, and is on Tuesday, rather than the usual Wednesday. My apologies for the late notice and shift in schedule for this session. Primary Texts Svati Shah, "Sex Work and Secrecy" (ch.4) and "The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work" (ch.5) from Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, dissertation submitted to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, 2005. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/shah_ch4.pdf http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/shah_ch5.pdf David Harvey, "Introduction" and "On Bodies and Political Persons in Global Space" (ch.6 "The Body as Accumulation Strategy" and ch.7 "Body Politics and the Struggle for a Living Wage") from Spaces of Hope, Berkeley: Univesity of California Press, 2000, pp.97-132 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/harvey_spaces_hope.pdf Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, "Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the Wars" from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.100-142 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chandavarkar.pdf Supplementary Texts Kamala Kempadoo, "Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights" in Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, New York: Routledge, 1998, pp.1-28. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kempadoo.pdf Jeremy Seabrook, Selections from In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World (ch.1 "Myths of the Megacities", ch.2 "Urbanization: The Making of a Transnational Working Class", ch.3 "Migrants to the City", ch.4 "Bombay in the Nineties", ch.6 "Labour in the Cities", and ch.10 "Slums and Settlements"), London: Verso, 1996, pp.1-73, 86-130, 174-209) http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/seabrook.pdf Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slum. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan Apt.302, Edgerton House 143, Albany Street Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar From shekhar at MIT.EDU Sat Apr 29 18:35:28 2006 From: shekhar at MIT.EDU (Shekhar Krishnan) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:35:28 -0400 Subject: [Urban-Media] Tuesday (Change of Venue) Message-ID: <4453EA30.50502@mit.edu> Dear All: We will meet next on Tuesday 2 May in MIT Building E-51 in the reading room on the first floor at 7.30 p.m. to discuss the texts listed below. Please note the change of venue to the STS reading room in the same building. We will begin with a presentation by Svati Shah and continue with discussion of texts on the politics of urban labour and work, sexual commerce, and migration in globalising cities of the South. Primary Texts Svati Shah, "Sex Work and Secrecy" (ch.4) and "The Red Light Area: Producing the Spectacle of Sex Work" (ch.5) from Seeing Sexual Commerce: Sex, Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, dissertation submitted to the Columbia University Department of Anthropology, 2005. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/shah_ch4.pdf http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/shah_ch5.pdf David Harvey, "Introduction" and "On Bodies and Political Persons in Global Space" (ch.6 "The Body as Accumulation Strategy" and ch.7 "Body Politics and the Struggle for a Living Wage") from Spaces of Hope, Berkeley: Univesity of California Press, 2000, pp.97-132 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/harvey_spaces_hope.pdf Rajnarayan Chandavarkar, "Workers' Politics and the Mill Districts in Bombay Between the Wars" from Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950, pp.100-142 http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/chandavarkar.pdf Supplementary Texts Kamala Kempadoo, "Introduction: Globalizing Sex Workers' Rights" in Kamala Kempadoo and Jo Doezema, eds., Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition, New York: Routledge, 1998, pp.1-28. http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/kempadoo.pdf Jeremy Seabrook, Selections from In the Cities of the South: Scenes from a Developing World (ch.1 "Myths of the Megacities", ch.2 "Urbanization: The Making of a Transnational Working Class", ch.3 "Migrants to the City", ch.4 "Bombay in the Nineties", ch.6 "Labour in the Cities", and ch.10 "Slums and Settlements"), London: Verso, 1996, pp.1-73, 86-130, 174-209) http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar/urban-media/seabrook.pdf Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slum. New York: Penguin Books, 2000. Best, S.K. -- Shekhar Krishnan Apt.302, Edgerton House 143, Albany Street Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. http://www.crit.org.in/members/shekhar http://www.mit.edu/~shekhar