BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:491bda6b1924de1b1ed417d134b4efa6 DTSTAMP:20260714T223451Z SUMMARY:The Higher Research Seminar (SASNET – co-sponsor): Glyn Williams\ , LU Human Geography - "Renegotiating Lockdown: collective life and the co ntrol of Covid-19 in India’s low-income urban neighbourhoods" DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: Ted.Svensson@svet.lu.se\n\nAbstract:COVID lockdowns ai med to stop movement and dilute social proximity\, and as such were a disr uptive moment globally. This was particularly so for low-income neighbourh oods of the Global South\, where intense interaction is an essential part of everyday social reproduction. While the resulting tension between disea se control and the 'collective life' of these communities is widely recogn ised\, this paper focuses on how it was resolved in practice. How did gove rnments imagine and seek to exercise spatial control in low-income neighbo urhoods\, and how did these communities respond? It examines the state’s lockdown strategies in three cities (Ahmedabad\, Chennai\, Thiruvananthap uram) focusing on their impact on the cities' working-class communities. T he different experiences across our cities and between the neighbourhoods of our study show that lockdowns were both partial and uneven in their eff ects\, and subject to continual change. These differences in turn highligh t potential pathways through which forms of emergency intervention more at tuned to these communities’ needs could be renegotiated \;in future. Glyn Williams"I was appointed Professor of Development Geography at Lund U niversity in February 2025\, after previous academic posts at Keele Univer sity (1994-2002)\, King’s College London (2003-2006)\, and the Universit y of Sheffield (2006-2025). My research is concerned with making developme nt sensitive to\, and inclusive of\, the agency and practices of marginali sed groups. Its focus is on the ‘everyday governance’ of development: the ideas and motives behind development interventions\, the practices of government and other actors engaged in implementing them\, and the ways th ese are reworked and contested on the ground. This work has been empirical ly grounded in qualitative fieldwork to address three core themes: margina lisation\, participation and empowerment\; democracy and the reproduction of political authority\; and socially just urban transitions. I have prima rily worked in India\, and from May 2026 will be co-leading a UK-funded re search project\, \;From Housing Beneficiaries to Urban Citizens\, look ing at the effects of state-sponsored rehousing on urban citizenship in Ch ina\, India\, and South Africa."The Higher Research Seminar is the Departm ent's main collective seminar. The research staff and invited leading nati onal and international scholars present ongoing research and analyses on a broad range of exciting topics relevant to Political Science.The Higher R esearch Seminar is held on Wednesdays\, 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367\, unles s otherwise indicated. PhD Mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45. \;Conveno rs: Robert Klemmensen and Jonathan PolkThe seminars are open to the public . Welcome to join us!The Higher Research Seminar | Department of Political Science\n\nMer information om händelsen: https://www.keg.lu.se/evenemang /higher-research-seminar-sasnet-co-sponsor-glyn-williams-lu-human-geograph y-renegotiating-lockdown DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260520T111500 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260520T123000 LOCATION:Large conference room\, Eden 367. END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR