RLC PhD student Amit Kumar conducts fieldwork in Mumbai


Amit Kumar, PhD student at RLC Bonn, is currently conducting one year of fieldwork in the slums of Mumbai. In collaboration with Medha Patkar’s (Right Livelihood Award Laureate1991) “Ghar Banao Ghar Bachao Aandolan” movement Amit is investigating the collective resistance against demolitions of slum dwellers in Mumbai. His research aims at the alternative imagination to the existing urban structures in relation to globalization.