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Friday, October 6, 2023
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
4 p.m. – 6 p.m.
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Encountering Rapid Mobility and World-Classness in Transport Paraphernalia
Cost
This event is free
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Where
J.W. McConnell Building
1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.
4TH SPACE
Wheel chair accessible
Yes
Join Yogi Joseph for a talk about the discourse around planning and implementation of mass transit projects in Indian cities which prominently features ideas of rapidness and world-classness, made desirable through project websites, vernacular news media, public relations and social media campaigns. While such campaigns feature inclusionary and progressive ideas, the everyday realities of the system are often very different.
Using the case of Kochi metrorail, Yogi Joseph argues that conversations around the metro project prominently feature rhetorical devices that engender isolated pockets/ribbons of “world-classness,” disjointed from both their physical context and the lived realities of their intended users.
This talk is part of the Southern Asia Studies Series, which will have programming through 2023-2024.
How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.
Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca
About the Speaker
Yogi Joseph
Yogi Joseph is a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Montreal. He is deeply interested in manifesting a bottom-up understanding of infrastructure in the global South.
Paying close attention to the micropractices employed in transit spaces, he views them as key sites for the production of socialities. His recent work investigates the role of transit infrastructure in forming subjectivities and shaping citizenships.