Persis TaraporevalaNov 12, 2019

Hi, I'm Persis. I work on urban governance and have lots of thoughts/feelings (increasingly unable to differentiate between the two) on democratic processes.

As a baby of the 90s, I have an attachment to secularism, multiculturalism and diversity so let's make them a reality ok?

I'll slowly add a list of publications to this toot, but know that I do NOT LOOK LIKE THE ONE PARSI AUNTY who married into your family. ok?

Show threadDevbutt FucknaikNov 13, 2019

@persis I get very excited about Urban Governance and feel it's kind of hijacked by a lot of spatial planning peoples. I feel Urban Governance as a discipline (if there can be one on its own) should be dominated by the civil society, decentralization actors, informal political actors like "mitra mandal"(!!!), migrant labourers and people in general. What are your thoughts?

Eagerly waiting for your reading list.

Show threadPersis Taraporevala
@goofysufi Heyluuu! Yes, and people have been doing great work on participatory democracy and budgeting towards this. Since urban governance is a state list issue in India, it changes from state to state. Gujarat, Maharashtra and Kerala had relatively more decentralised forms of government. Gujarat has backtracked on that over the last decade and a half and it is important that new forms of urban development strategies do not disincentivise us from deepening local government!
Nov 14, 2019 at 8:42amWeb
Show threadPersis TaraporevalaNov 14, 2019
@goofysufi I'll start a reading list for here, with both academic and non academic reading! Thanks for the great idea!