Dear Friends:
PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research) and The Bombay Paperie invite you to "Squatter Cities", a public lecture and discussion with journalist ROBERT NEUWIRTH, on examing the various perceptions, political conditions, and people's experiences slum and squatter settlements in different cities throughout the world.
ROBERT NEUWIRTH is a freelance journalist and writer from New York. He is currently working on a book on the everyday life of slum and squatter settlements in different parts of the world. He has lived in slums in Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Istanbul, and he presently lives in Sanjay Gandhi Nagar in Goregaon East, in Mumbai. He has been a staff reporter on daily newspapers and weekly news magazines, and his work has published in the Village Voice, New York Times, New York Daily News, Wired Magazine, and The Nation. He is a contributing editor to City Limits (http://www.citylimits.org/). He has also taught inmates at Raiker's Island Jail as a Professor at City University of New York. His forthcoming book, for which he received a grant from the Macarthur Foundation, will be published in 2004 by Routledge.
The discussion will be moderated by DEVIKA MAHADEVAN, who works with SPARC (Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres) on documentation activities. She studied at Brandeis University and the London School of Economics (LSE) and is from Mumbai.
Date: SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2002 6.00 p.m. to 8.00 p.m.
At: The BOMBAY PAPERIE Mezzanine Floor, Soonawalla Building 59, Bombay Samachar Marg Opposite the Stock Exchange Fort, Bombay 400001 _____
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