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SUMMARY:#AanaJaana [#ComingGoing]: Curating gendered digital lives in Delh
 i's urban peripheries - Professor Ayona Datta\, Department of Geography\, 
 King's College\, London
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DESCRIPTION:This paper presents a gendered perspective of Delhi’s urban 
 future produced and curated by young women living in slum resettlement col
 onies in the city's edge. Using the metaphor of #aanajaana [#ComingGoing] 
 as a paradigm for postcolonial urbanism\, this paper argues that their eve
 ryday mobility across the home and the city reflect the paradox of belongi
 ng and exclusion in a digital urban age. The paper captures the ambiguitie
 s and paradoxes of their lives – on the one hand living as second genera
 tion rural migrants forcefully evicted from the city slums in the 2000s an
 d resettled in the peripheries. On the other hand\, as millennials with in
 creased access to mobile and communication technologies\, these women are 
 also riding the digital urban age with promises of their inclusion in the 
 future city. Using a digital and participatory methodology of WhatsApp dia
 ry entries of multimedia content (audio recordings\, photographs\, videos 
 and text messages by women)\, conversations between the women and research
 ers as well as observations of the dynamics within the WhatsApp group over
  a period of 6 months\, I suggest that #AanaJaana highlights the inherent 
 slow violence of living between physical and digital exclusions from the c
 ity. By digitally and visually curating women’s everyday stories\, #aana
 jaana also turned into a hip-hop song written and performed by these women
  that drew attention to the attritional and invisible violence of their li
 ves.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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