Meet Véronique Dupont, demographer specializing in India (IRD, CESSMA)
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Video: Knowing India through the city: from urban practices to urban policies
An interview conducted by Bastien Sepúlveda, in charge of Digital Humanities (DIRVED, Inalco), directed by Dimitri Galitzine, produced by Inalco (19/12/2024, 1h13)
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Véronique Dupont is Director of Research Emeritus at theInstitut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) and a member of the Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques (CESSMA, UMR 245). Her research focuses on urban India, which she explores through a demographic approach rooted in the field of urban studies. Here, she discusses her work on the dynamics of Indian cities, at the intersection of the spatial mobilities of populations and related public policies, and more particularly those dealing with precarious housing.
After a PhD in Economic Analysis and Policy, Economic Demography option, which focused on the dynamics of secondary cities and migratory processes in West Africa obtained in 1985 at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, véronique Dupont joined ORSTOM/Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), and has been an associate member of the Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud (CEIAS) since 1993. She was Director of the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi from 2003 to 2007, and Deputy Director of CESSMA from 2014 to 2018. From 2019 to 2024, together with Marianne Morange, she led CESSMA's "Cities of the South: power, urban practices and metropolitan becoming" axis.
She has directed several collective projects and since 2014 has participated in the "Urbanization, citizenship and urban services" program as part of a collaboration with the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi.
She has published, among others: The Politics of Slums in the Global South. Urban informality in Brazil, India, South Africa and Peru (with Jordhus-Lier D., Sutherland C., Braathen E. (eds), Routledge, 2016); Urban policies and the right to the city in India. Rights, responsibilities and citizenship (with Zérah, M.-H.,Tawa Lama-Rewal St. (eds), New Delhi: UNESCO & Centre de Sciences Humaines, 2011).
His current research focuses on Delhi's Kathpuli urban renewal project and the publication of Towards a slum-free city? Delhi and the unfinished story of Kathputli Colony (with Gowda S., Delhi: Orient BlackSwan) forthcoming.
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