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Hope Amidst Social Exclusion In Three Global Cities

Grant & Institutional Support A collaborative grant by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche and the Indian Council of Social Science Research under the EU-India Platform for the Social Sciences and the Humanities made this project possible.

Hope amidst social exclusion in three global cities is a collaborative project focusing on hopes harboured by socially excluded people in London, Mumbai and Paris. It documents the ways in which socially excluded people express their hopes for a better future despite confronting multiple crises, including a global pandemic which coincided with, and hindered, fieldwork for this project.

Fieldwork Vignettes

Snapshots from Fieldwork

Ethnographic accounts documenting everyday hopes and struggles across three global metropolitan centers.

Just another day
A kerfuffle
The learning centre
Today a reader
Gentrification from below
A bustling shopping centre
Jai Bhim
Elections
Organising a community
Portraits
Hurrying
School
The bar
A patrol
Project Results

Outputs & Publications

Podcast 2022

Urban Hopes

Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication 2021

Inciting Hopes For The Future

MetroPolitics

Publication 2020

Everyday Activism Amid The Pandemic

Antipode Online

Collaboration

Project Team