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4-0950 WANNABE CITIES: EVERYDAY STRIVINGS AND EMERGENT URBANISMS
Friday, November 18, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers:  Timothy E Murphy (University of California, Davis)
Chairs:  Bascom Guffin (University of California, Davis)
Discussants:  Li Zhang (UC Davis) and Arafaat A Valiani (Williams College)
13:45
Ain't No Love for the City of Brotherly Love?: Engaging Scale and Migrant Incorporation In Philadelphia
Diane R Garbow (Temple University)
14:00
Marginality In Central Locations: The Paradox of Living In Not-Quite Metropolis Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Anne S Lewinson (Berry College)
14:15
Landscapes of Failure: Examining Countryside and Cityscape In Detroit
Nicholas Lawrence Caverly (The New School for Social Research)
14:30
Chronic Conditions: Urban Lives and the Politics of Place within An Industrial Miasma
Nicholas S Welcome (University of California, Riverside)
14:45
The Master Plan of Astana: Between the “Art of Government” and the “Art of Being Global”
Alima Z Bissenova (Cornell University)
15:00
Discussant
Li Zhang (UC Davis)
15:15
Discussion
15:30
Break
15:45
Doing the Dirty Work: Urban Citizenship & the Postindustrial Transformation of Detroit
Leah Wiste (University of California, Davis)
16:00
The Role of Megaprojects In the Making of a World Class City:the Sabarmati Riverfront Development Project In Ahmedabad
Sangeeta Banerji (Tata Institute of Social Sciences)
16:15
The Importance of Unimportance: Middle-Class Belonging In An Emergent Somewhere
Timothy E Murphy (University of California, Davis)
16:30
“¡Guayaquil Vive Por Tí!” Aspirational Urbanism and Citizenship As Moral Imperative
Lorien R Olive (Duke University)
16:45
Multifarious Mobilities of a New Middle Class In Cyberabad
Bascom Guffin (University of California, Davis)
17:00
Discussant
Arafaat A Valiani (Williams College)
17:15
Discussion
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