Paola's research focuses on the experiences of urban daily mobility in Santiago de Chile. The main ideas she has been developing involve the notions of mobile place making, mobile place confinement and enlargement and the way urban inequality is also or further experienced through urban daily mobility practices.

This year, the advances on these ideas have been presented at various instances including the America Association of Geographers 2007 in San Francisco, USA, with the paper "Mobile place-making in Santiago de Chile. The experience of Place Confinement and Place Autonomy"; the Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference 2007 with the paper Strategies for mobile place confinement/autonomy. The experience of urban daily mobility in Santiago de Chile"; and the 2007 Cosmobilities Conference on "Mobilities, Space, and Inequality" with the paper "Difference, inequality and disconnection in Santiago de Chile. Managing differentiated urban daily mobility practices". Each of these papers are extracts of different aspects of her work on her thesis.

Over the next few months the paper "Place making in the context of urban daily mobility practices: actualising time space mapping as a useful methodological tool" which details the methodology she used in her research will be published in the book Sensible Spaces - Space, Art and the Environment edited by Edward Huijbens. Moreover, the paper "Unravelling Invisible Inequalities in the City through Urban Daily Mobility. The case of Santiago de Chile" which briefly explains the way inequality is experienced in a differentiated manner, will be published in the Swiss Journal of Sociology, Volume 33 Special Issue on Space, Mobility and Inequality.

Over the next few months Paola will be working on the implications of mobility problems in urban planning and the difficulties and possibilities of integrating urban and transport planning in cities like Santiago de Chile. Finally, Paola received the Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies Studentship for the year 2007-2008 which will greatly contribute to the last phase of the PhD.

Ramola Naik-Singru (2002) has been working hard to produce her/his publication "Mumbai: Spatial Segregation in a 'Globalising' City which has been published in 'Globalizing Cities: Inequality and Segregation in Developing Countries' by R.S Sandhu and J Sandhu

Recent Publication: Naik-Singru, R (2007). Mumbai : Spatial Segregation in a 'Globalising' City. In R.S. Sandhu & Jasmeet Sandhu (Eds.), 'Globalizing Cities: Inequality and Segregation in Developing Countries', Rawat Publications: New Delhi, 131-170

Abstract

The globalisation of economic activity has been a catalyst for change in the spatial and social reorganisation of 'global cities' evident through distinct socio-spatial forms like increased social polarisation, spatial segregation and gentrification processes. The 'global city' has been conceptualised in a predominant western context and needs to be adapted to the context of cities in the developing world. Of note to this paper are the different ways in which globalisation might effect segregation and the path-dependency of socio-spatial and ethnic segregation that is embedded in the historical formations of Mega cities in developing countries.

Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the financial capital of India, has played an important role as a production and export site in the colonial economic system as well as a politically charged space for display of the colonial power through an architectural and spatial dialogue. With the globalisation of economic activity and liberalisation policies in India, Mumbai is once again in the global arena with global factors and actors shaping the urban geography of the 'globalising' city. However, it does not display evident 'globalcity-isation' but a tendency towards a path-dependency in its spatial evolution. While the spatial patterns laid out during the British rule led to segregation based on a race, caste and class structure the contemporary one is driven not only by socio-economic class but also by an unequal land market. The hype of the land markets and the cultural values are moving towards the ideology of the global cosmopolitan elite, influencing the evolution of the spaces of the city, exacerbating the spatial segregation existing in Mumbai. This spatial inequality is further exacerbated through promotion of 'pro-global' urban policies.

Jayaraj Sundaresan presented a paper at this years 17^th annual ASEN conference, 'The dark face of Nationalism: Violence, Experience and the Nation' used a study of Ahmedabad in India to argue that in order to understand better the phenomena of production and reproduction of violent and inimical identities of ethnic nationalism, we need to look right at the level of habitation-that is in the form of habitation in cities and settlements.

While arguing that restoring livelihoods and mutual interaction in the forms of habitation is most important for building trust among communities- it is also argued that the practice of urban and regional planning and urban politics is very central in imagining such a long term restorative action. The paper presented four specific components for action developed in abstract : institutional component, spatial planning, social security, and contingency planning.