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Film screening of Survey City

When: Friday, 30 August 2024 - Friday, 30 August 2024
Where: Hybrid Event
Parktown Management Campus
North Lodge, SCIS Seminar Room – Parktown Management Campus
Start time:9:00
Enquiries:

athenkosi.pono@wits.ac.za

kitso.kgaboesele@wits.ac.za
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Cost: Free but registration is required

SCIS invites you to a seminar with Professor Sanjay titled Film Screening of Survey City

The Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) invites you to a seminar with Professor Sanjay Srivastava titled Film Screening of Survey City on 30 August 2024, 09:00 - 10:30 (SAST). 

ABSTRACT:

Ayesha and her family live in a Delhi Basti (informal settlement). She is desperate to obtain legal title of her tiny house at the precarious edges of the city. There are frequent rumours of demolitions as the land is classified as ‘illegally occupied’. Ayesha and her neighbours are always trying to find ways of becoming permanent residents of the city where they were born and have lived.

For Basti residents access to legal title to land depends on inclusion in multiple government surveys that promise these. The promises most frequently arrive at election time. The film focuses on crucial survey-related documents intended to provide security of tenure but declared ‘lost’. Between the lost documents and their eventual discovery in a government office, lies the story of a locality, its people, their anxieties and the mysterious relationships between government records and citizens. This is the story of Delhi’s Border Basti.

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