December 2008, Bangalore: Zainab Bawa is a good friend of a good friend of mine. We had only written some emails before we met in which Zainab was so kind as to give us advice how to solve some
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Zainab Bawa
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Zainab Bawa works as an independent researcher on issues of urbanism, governance and impact of technology on political practices and institutions. She is collaborating with Servelots to assess how
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In her PhD research Zainab Bawa takes the standpoint that ‘land’ is a very physical and material entity, and yet there are so many levels of relationships that evolve around land: political
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Social relations, architecture and the environment around shape an individual when growing up. However, it seems that when people are involved in conflict, and feelings of discomfort, anger and
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As one witnesses another human being, one also judges the other human being. And this is again even more so when religion has a strong impact on social and public life. Being an independent woman in
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When transposing the issue of witnessed presence to the online world Bawa talks about her experience with the blog she wrote in which she presented her ethnographic research on the squatter
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In another project Bawa was involved in, the government wanted to offer civic services through an online system.
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The effect of this flow between different realities became very clear for Bawa when the state of emergency was called in Kashmir and the Indian government decided to shut down Internet completely.
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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