Please register for the conference until April 30, 2021 by sending an email to lena.nieweler@stud.uni-goettingen.de. Please give your full name, your email-Address and your institutional affiliation. There will be no conference fee.
Vorläufiges Programm / Tentative Agenda
Freitag, 07. Mai 2021 / Friday, 07 May, 2021
09:30 Begrüßung und Einführung / Welcome and Introduction
Session 1: Rural-Urban Transformations
9:45-10:15 Land Use/Land Cover Change, Built-Up Growth and Channels of Urbanisation in and Around Delhi
(Saurav Chakraborty, Alexander Follmann, Priyank Pravin Patel, Kolkata/Köln)
10:20-10:50 Political Ecology of Rural to Urban Transformation in India
(Manisha Jain, Dresden)
11:00-11:30 A Delphi Approach to Building Transformation Pathways for Waterbased Livelihoods in Periurban Pune
(Sarah Luft, Carsten Butsch, Köln)
11:35-12:05 Lockdown Farmers Markets in Bengaluru: Direct Marketing Activities and Potentials for Rural-Urban Linkages in the Food System
(Neda Yousefian, M. Soubadra Devy, K. Geetha, Christoph Dittrich, Göttingen/Bengaluru)
12:05-12:45 Gemeinsamer virtueller brownbag Lunch in Wonder / Virtual brownbag lunch in Wonder
Session 2: Food, Food Systems and Consumption
12:45-13:15 The Indian Way of Organic Food from a Geographical Perspective
(Judith Bopp, Mirka Erler, Vechta/Aachen)
13:20-13:50 Food Consumption Practices, Food Safety and the Indian Middle Class Taking the Example of the Metropolis of Bengaluru
(Elena Wenninger, Göttingen)
13:50-14:05 Kaffeepause / Coffee break
14:05-14:50 Input und Diskussion zur COVID 19 Situation und Entwicklungen in Südasien. Implikationen für unsere Forschung? / Input and discussion on the COVID 19 situation and developments in South Asia. What are the implications for our research?
15:00- 15:30 Virtuelle Mitgliederversammlung / Virtual General Meeting
15:30 Ende von Tag 1 / End of day one
Samstag, 08. Mai 2021 / Saturday, 08 May, 2021
9:30 Begrüßung / Welcome
Session 3: The Effects of Governance
9:35-10:05 Towards the Submissive and Productive Migrant Worker: Governing Nepali Migrant Subjectivities and the Transnational Marketization of Labor
(Hannah Uprety, Münster)
10:10-10:40 India’s Land: Land grabs, the Jatropha Hype and Recent Farmer Protests
(Anika Trebbin, Marburg)
10:45-11:15 Promises and Perils of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: The Case of Agriculture and Trade in Northern Pakistan
(Michael Spies, Eberswalde)
11:15-11:45 Virtuelle Kaffeepause / Virtual Coffee Break
Session 4: Livelihoods: Vulnerabilities, Resilience and Adaptation
11:45-12:15 Tourism Operators’ Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards in the Nepalese Himalaya
(Eva Posch, Innsbruck)
12:20-12:50 To Grow Cotton, or Not to Grow Cotton, That is the Question: The Adaptation Practices of Small Scale Farmers in the Cotton Belt of South Punjab
(Mehwish Zuberi, Eberswalde)
12:55-13:25 Women Let Participatory Urban Governance Model
(Siraz Hirani, Mahila Housing Trust)
13:30-13:50 Wrap up und Organisatorisches / Wrap up and Organizational matters
13:50 Ende / End
Wir bedanken uns für die langjährige, erfolgreiche Zusammenarbeit mit dem Franz Steiner Verlag.