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5-0820 SPATIAL PRACTICE AND NEW MIDDLE CLASSES: SITUATING CLASS IN THE POSTCOLONIAL CITY
Saturday, November 19, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Organizers:  Meredith L McGuire (University of Chicago)
Chairs:  Alison Kohn (Arizona State University)
Discussants:  William T Mazzarella (University of Chicago) and Constantine V Nakassis (University of Chicago)
13:45
New Delhi Cosmopolitan: Spatial and Bodily Practices of the New Middle Class
Meredith L McGuire (University of Chicago)
14:00
Driving to Modernity: Cars and Middle Class Mobility In Changchun, China
Beth E Notar (Trinity College)
14:15
The Indigenous Middle Class In Bolivia: City Building, the Commercialization of ‘Indigeneity,’ and Shifting Visions of ‘Class’ In La Paz, Bolivia
Alison Kohn (Arizona State University)
14:30
A House, a Yard, and a Security Fence: Middle-Class Housing On the Terrain of the Israeli Occupation
Callie Maidhof (University of California Berkeley)
14:45
Bourgeois Piety On the Exurban Periphery: Gated Communities and New Muslim Elites In Istanbul
Jeremy F Walton (New York University)
15:00
Spatial Change, Practice, and Housing: An Ethnography of the ‘New’ Urban Middle-Class and An ‘Old’ Post-Colonial Shanghai
Non Arkaraprasertkul (Harvard University)
15:15
'civic Sense': Mobility and Middle Class Activism In Mumbai
Jonathan S Anjaria (Bard College)
15:30
Break
15:45
Networks of Credit: the Middle Class Project In Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Allison Truitt (Tulane University)
16:00
Purebred and Pariah Dogs: Rearticulating Caste, Class and Breed In Domestic, Street and Shelter Spaces In New Delhi 
M Mather George (University of California Berkeley)
16:15
Artistic Critique In Neoliberal Times: Film, Real Estate, and Socialist Memories
Hai Ren (University of Arizona)
16:30
“Future Life How?”: Pyramid Schemes, Deaf Sociality, and Middle Class Aspirations In Urban India
Michele Friedner (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16:45
Discussant
Constantine V Nakassis (University of Chicago)
17:00
Discussant
William T Mazzarella (University of Chicago)
17:15
Discussion
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