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Opportunities

Deux Bourses d'Aide à la Recherche pour les programmes « Transition économique » ou « Relations Internationales » du Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi (Inde)

Le Centre de Sciences Humaines de New Delhi offre à compter du 1er octobre 2008 deux bourses d'aide à la recherche pour des doctorants en économie/sciences politiques ou en relations internationales.

Details de l'annonce
Formulaire de la lettre de recommandation
Formulaire de candidature

Pour connaitre les programmes de bourses du Ministère des Affaires Etrangères pour les Français souhaitant poursuivre leurs études ou recherches à l'étranger :

EGIDE
28, rue de la Grange aux Belles, 75010 Paris
Check out the EGIDE website (This programme is for French students only)

Forthcoming Events

25-26 July 2008 :
A Seminar on NATIONAL RURAL EMPLOYMENT GUARANTEE SCHEME (NREGS) IN INDIA

A Conference

Organised by:

• Centre de Sciences Humaines
• Institute for Human Development

At

Documents available for reading before the event:
Call for Papers
Concept Note

See the related research programme

SINGH Swaran (ed)
China-Pakistan Strategic Cooperation: Indian Perspectives
Manohar-CSH, New Delhi, 2007 ISBN: 81-7304-761-8 , 406 pages , Rs.895

This book is an attempt to collate Indian perspectives on the multifaceted themes and sectors of China-Pakistan strategic cooperation. China-Pakistan ties have been a major obsession with Indian opinion and policy makers. While this obsession remains restricted to China’s transfers of sensitive technologies, the essential backdrop sustaining such a unique ‘axis’ has not been explored with sufficient rigour. Given the secrecy that shrouds these transfers of missiles and nuclear material, technologies and knowhow, occasional outbursts in the Indian media suggest that commentary remains vulnerable to political populism, emotional outrage and calculated Western media leaks. These commentaries trigger flashes of interest but no substantive follow-up debate or dedicated research for evolving India’s policy options. The volume tries to fill this essential gap so as to generate serious debate on the contours and implications of China-Pakistan ties. The project locates itself primarily in a new context where the events following 9/11 and the growing India-China and India-Pakistan understanding seem to undermine the China-Pakistan axis. In addition to providing a wealth of information and analyses on a subject of critical importance, the volume aims at shedding populism and busting several myths that continue to burden Indian debates on China-Pakistan strategic cooperation.

CONTENTS

Preface

Contributors

Part I – Mutual Perceptions and Policies

1: Introduction
Swaran Singh

2: The Changing Imperatives
Anindyo J. Majumdar

3: Pakistan in China’s Security Perceptions
Srikanth Kondapalli

4: China in Pakistan’s Security Perceptions
Satyabrat Sinha

5: Strategic Thinking and Traditions
M.V. Rappai

6: Role of Political Culture
Sonika Gupta


Part II – Defence and Strategic Cooperation

7: Proliferation Concerns: An Overview
Arpit Rajain

8: Nuclear Proliferation Concerns
Savita Pande

9: Ballistic Missile Technology Transfers
Rajiv Nayan

10: Air and Aerospace Partnership
M. Matheswaran

11: Naval Cooperation
Vijay Sakhuja

12: The Maritime Convergence
W. Lawrence S. Prabhakar


Part III – Fundamentals of Strategic Engagement

13: Geopolitics of Economic Relations
Madhu Bhalla

14: Civilian Technology Transfer
D. Varaprasad Sekhar

15: Civilian Nuclear Cooperation
Arvind Kumar

16: Pakistan in China’s Arms Trade
Aparna Kher

17: The Karakoram Highway
Virendra Sahai Verma

18: The Xinjiang Factor
Abanti Bhattacharya


Bibligraphy

Index

See the related archived research programme

DUPONT Véronique & HEUZE Djallal G. (eds)
La Ville en Asie du Sud. Analyse et mise en perspective / Cities in South Asia: Analyses and prospects
Editions de L’EHESS, Collection Purushartha, n. 26, Paris, 2007 ISBN: 978-2-7132-2116-3 , 440 pages , 38€

Language : French & English

The city in South Asia, descendant of the world’s most ancient urban civilization, is situated in a predominantly rural region, which nonetheless produces mega-cities. These large cities, which are at the forefront of the subcontinent’s economic liberalisation process, are undergoing rapid changes in the face of globalisation. Three main themes engage with these transformations: urban re-structuring and social and spatial dimensions; urban conflict and social tensions; the reshaping of economic spaces.

The edited volume mobilizes various disciplinary fields in the social sciences and offers a comparative approach that aims to situate the South Asian urban experience in relation to trends observed elsewhere in Asia and on other continents as well.

Sommaire / Table of Contents

VERONIQUE DUPONT & DJALLAL G. HEUZÉ
Introduction
Introduction

Structure de la ville et recompositions socio-spatiales
Structure of the town and socio-spatial reshaping

ANNE VIGUIER
Images et formes urbaines. L'héritage précolonial du pays Tamoul
Urban forms and images : the pre-colonial legacy in Tamil Nadu

VINCENT GOOSSAERT
Villes saintes, villes fortifiées. Réflexions depuis la Chine sur le cas tamoul
Holy cities, fortified cities. On the Tamil case, as viewed from China

VÉRONIQUE DUPONT & USHA RAMANATHAN
Du traitement des slums à Delhi. Politiques de « nettoyage » et d’embellissement
Dealing with slums in Delhi : clearance and beautification policies

HÉLÈNE RIVIÈRE D'ARC
Une autre politique de centre ville en Amérique latine. La place réservée aux pauvres dans les « vieux » quartiers de São Paulo
A new policy for town-centers in Latin America: the space for the poor in the “old” districts of Sao Paulo.

ANNICK HOLLÉ
Les nouveaux quartiers du Grand Katmandou : conception et composition
The new suburbs of Greater Kathmandu: conception and patterns

LAURENT COUDROY DE LILLE
Quel statut urbanistique pour la ville héritée ?
Which town-planning for the inherited town?

MARIE-CAROLINE SAGLIO-YATZIMIRSKY
Village dans la ville ou village imaginaire ? Communautés migrantes de Mumbai
Village in town, or in imagination? The migrant communities in Mumbai.

RENÉ DE MAXIMY
Les villages urbains : concept ou abus de langage ?
Urban villages: concept or abuse of language?

Tensions sociales et tensions urbaines
Social tension, tension in the city

MICHEL BOIVIN
Violence, défragmentation sociale et intégration urbaine à Karachi dans
la perspective de la courte durée
Violence, social de-fragmentation, and urban integration: Karachi within a short prospect

DJALLAL G. HEUZE
La violence et la ville : le cas de Mumbai durant les deux dernières décennies du XXe siècle
Violence in the city: the case of Mumbai in the last two decades of the 20th century

JEAN-CHARLES DEPAULE
Violences et territoires
Violence for territories

La ville et le développement économique local et mondial
The city and the local and global economic development

LORAINE KENNEDY
Shaping economic space in Chennai and Hyderabad. The assertion of State-level policies in the post-reform area.

CHRISTIAN AZAÏS
Libéralisation économique et disparités générales : des évolutions contrastées entre l'Inde et le Brésil ?
Liberalisation policies and regional disparities: contrasts in the evolution of India and Brazil ?

GIULIA DE PONTE
Désindustrialisation, précarisation du travail et transformation des réseaux politiques urbains : la ville de Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh)
De-industrialization, labour precariousness and changes in urban political networks: Kanpur City (Uttar Pradesh)

PHILIPPE HAERINGER
Après l'usine, la ville. L'indispensable économie endogène en Uttar Pradesh et ailleurs
After the factory, the town: on the unavoidability of an endogenous economy in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere.

DJALLAL G. HEUZE
Epilogue
Epilogue

HUCHON Agnès, TRICOT Guillaume
Between Citizens and Institutions: The Dynamics of the Integration of Water Supply and Sanitation Services in Hyderabad
CSH Occasional Paper Nº22, New Delhi, 2008 ISSN: 0972-3579 , 135 pages

Abstract

Urban growth in Hyderabad has underscored the need for restructuring urban services, starting with public utilities. What changes are taking place in this sector? Who initiates and implements policies? What is their impact on the public? These questions are addressed in this detailed study of Hyderabad's water supply and sanitation services. The paper focuses on institutional changes with regard to the main service providers - the Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board and the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad - and provides a critical analysis of restructuring and policies ostensibly aimed at providing uniform service throughout the metropolitan region. In order to evaluate how policies play out on the ground, two distinct areas of the city were selected for field surveys. In this way, the spatial dimension of urban service delivery - including deployment of physical infrastructure networks as well as social infrastructure - was examined in order to analyze the relative integration of a city and to determine the main factors of segregation. The findings dispel a number of conventional ideas about unequal service levels between the old and new parts of the city and between different income groups, and offer a more nuanced explanation for differential access using both social and spatial variables. The paper also addresses the demand side of the water supply and sanitation equation, analyzing the ways in which different categories of users try to improve access or service levels. The authors explore user expectations and the various means deployed to channel grievances, which reveal different modes of democratic interaction between the public and the authorities.

This study contributes to debates surrounding urban governance and decentralization in India's cities. On one hand, it enhances understanding of recent developments in Hyderabad, a city on the forefront of many urban reforms in recent years. On the other hand, its analytical method - combining a macro study of institutional changes on the supply side with field surveys to analyze differential social and spatial access to service and household practices for improving service levels - offers numerous insights that are significant for studies of other metropolitan cities.

Table of Contents

PREFACE BY LORAINE KENNEDY & MARIE HÉLÈNE ZÉRAH

INTRODUCTION

I)POLITICAL WILL TO STANDARDIZE / MODERNIZE THE SERVICE
1.Medium and Long-term Objectives: Rationalizing the Service
a.Infrastructural Requirements
b.Outsourcing of Operations at the Consumers' End
c.Integration of Municipal Services into a Single Entity for the Whole City
d.General Trends in Andhra Pradesh
2.Short-term Objectives: Reinventing the Relationship with Consumers
a.Customer Satisfaction
b.Improvement of Public Image
3.At What Level should the Service be Standardized?
a.Connecting Individual Lines to the Network
b.Sewerage Network
c. Storm Water Drainage

II) TESTING THIS POLICY AT THE LEVEL OF MUNICIPAL WARDS
1.Slight Difference in Service between the Two Sections
2.Old Urban Infrastructure and Economic Dynamism
3.The Special Case of Slums and Underprivileged Localities
4.Inadequate Correlation between Standard of Living and Level of Service
5.Is there Uniform Implementation of Directives from Above by Section 0ffices?

III) RESIDENTS RESORT TO SELF-HELP TO IMPROVE SERVICE
1.Individual Complaints: Differences in Response according to Locality
2.Representation: Need for Intermediaries
a.Neighbourhood Democracy
b.The Municipal Corporator: A Representative of the People and a Partner of the Administration?
3.Arrangements of Residents' Associations: Joint Representation and Common Equipment
a.To Support and Relieve or Substitute Public Authorities?
b.Question of Social Redistribution

CONCLUSION
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ANNEXES

The CSH Occasional Papers can be downloaded for free on the CSH website

Impact of decentralization on basic urban services in small and medium towns

December 2007 - December 2010

Coordinated by

Remi De Bercegol

Welcome

SHARMA Ridhima
Librarian-Documentalist
librarian@csh-delhi.com

Welcome

VERNIERS Gilles
Political dynamics, institutional set-up and social change
gilles.verniers@sciences-po.fr

Gilles VERNIERS is a PhD student in political science from CERI/Sciences Po, Paris. He joined the CSH in November 2007.

He is currently writing a doctoral thesis on the Samajwadi Party and Uttar Pradesh electoral politics. He has previously worked on the rise of regional parties in India and the process of marketisation of electoral politics, in the context of State elections. His main academic interests focus on issues of political representation, regional party politics, the transformation of the context of Indian politics and the sociology of elected representatives.

Gilles VERNIERS is also Sciences Po Delegate to India, in charge of student and faculty mobility and academic cooperations with various Indian partners.

VERNIERS Gilles participates in:

• India’s democratic renewal in question (Research Programmes Section)
• Contemporary forms and stakes of (sub)political mobilizations in urban India (Research Programmes Section)

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