Max-Weber-Kolleg (Steinplatz 2) / Raum 310 (2. OG)
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Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Steinplatz 2
99085 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Qudsiya completed her PhD in 2014 as a Max Planck Institute Doctoral Fellow at the School of Development Studies, TISS. She has held teaching positions at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. She has also worked in the development sector on issues of urbanization, displacement and human rights.
My project within the ‘Religion and Urbanity’ research group at the Max Weber Centre will explore how religion and religious identities impact the urban experience of the poor in Mumbai. The project will specifically focus on the Muslim poor in a Mumbai neighborhood exploring how socio-spatial segregation, lack of basic amenities, economic deprivations, police surveillance and political marginalization play out in everyday life. Mumbai is among India’s most modern cities known for its economic prosperity, cosmopolitanism as well as public displays of religiosity. Since the early twentieth century, with the rise of political Hinduism, the cultural and political landscape in the city has demonstrated the salience of religious majoritarianism as a way of defining nationalism and an assertion of vernacular pride. Its image as a secular modern city has been under threat with incidences of communal strife that have segregated its cultural and spatial form. Violence following the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya (1992-93), an event that shook the city’s social fabric lead further to segregated living and a social avoidance of Muslims that percolated Mumbai’s neighbourhoods. Post 1992-93, Mumbai’s Muslim neighbourhoods have been understood as ridden with state apathy and havens of religious orthodoxy. This research focuses on the dynamics and experiences of being a Muslim on the urban margins in the aftermath of communal violence.
Max-Weber-Kolleg für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien
Universität Erfurt
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt
Universität Erfurt (Campus)
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt