Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/02/2016
12:00 - 13:00
Location
ICCCAD Project Office
Categories
This week’s seminar will be held from 12 pm – 1 pm on Thursday, February 25 at the ICCCAD Project Office, Level 5, House 27, Road 1, Block A, Bashundhara R/A. Uwe Roth will presenting on his Master’s thesis titled ‘Resilience in the shadow of hierarchies: A qualitative study of self-organization in Bhola Slum, Dhaka’.
About the speaker
Uwe Roth is a Visiting Researcher at ICCCAD and is currently based in Munich, Germany. He did his Bachelors in Geography and is now doing his Masters degree in Human Geography at the University of Bayreuth. He has a particular interest is with spatial planning.
About the seminar
Uwe has been a Visiting Researcher at ICCCAD for the last two months. He came to Bangladesh to do the fieldwork for his Masters Thesis. The thesis aims to uncover the forms of self-organisation as well as the vertical hierarchies used to maintain livelihoods and certain levels of resilience within a slum in Dhaka. He selected Bhola bosti in Pallabi, Mirpur as his study area, which is also a study site for GIBIKA project. His research included several visits to the site where he conducted interviews and focus group discussions with slum residents as well as interviews with some of the NGOs active in that area. Uwe will present his findings on the social structure of the slum, power relations and the role that self-organisation and hierarchies play.
