Biopolitics and Urban Governmentality in Mumbai

Jha, Manish Kumar; Shajahan, P.K.; Vyas, Mouleshri

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“…Urban gating accelerated in the 2000s, producing a micro-economy of spatial control through neighborhood welfare associations, whose punitive stance vis-à-vis the “encroachments” of the poor led to aggressive slum removal campaigns and urban beautification drives (Baviskar, 2003; Ghertner, 2015). The growing use of cooperative group housing societies—residential complexes organized on the basis of “community” (read: caste and religion) (Jha et al, 2013)—and the explosion of integrated, luxury townships in India hence need to be seen as more than Indian expressions of a broader pattern of neoliberal urbanism. They are as much responses to a crisis of Hindu domesticity associated with the decline of the joint family, the rise of communal and gender violence (Hansen, 1999), and the (caste) democratization of the public sphere.…”

Section: The Securitized Body In the Fortressed Citymentioning

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The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Waldman

Ghertner

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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This essay analyzes embodied experiences of enclaving. It argues that by tracking revolutions in built form that gating enacts, urban geography has simultaneously tracked revolutions in urban subjectivity. It highlights three enclaved “body types” within existing literature: securitized bodies in fortressed cities, performative bodies in consumptive enclaves, and hygienic bodies in purified zones. It then offers three ethnographic scenes of gating related to new crises of personhood: metabolic illness, atmospheric breakdown, and resurgent ethno-nationalism. Attention to the psychic forces behind gating, it finally argues, can further show the gender, class, and ethnic underpinnings of what appear as generic architectural zones.

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Section: The Securitized Body In the Fortressed Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Waldman

Ghertner

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…In global South cities, biopolitical strategies influence efforts to improve the vitality of living among the urban poor. These strategies are deployed as development programs (Di Muzio 2008), as projects ensuring security (Zeiderman 2013), or as improvements of benefits and services (Jha et al 2013). But underlying these strategies are subtle politics of biopower that quietly exclude certain populations and occlude callous consequences, “rather than display itself in its murderous splendor” (Foucault 1978:144).…”

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Exposing Necroburbia: Suburban Relocation, Necropolitics, and Violent Geographies in Manila

Ortega

2020

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When accumulation in southern cities entails the dispossession of informal settlers, where do they go and what spatialities emerge out of their dispossession? In Manila, this occurs through a violent form of suburbanisation. To make way for modern and investment-friendly spaces, informal settlers are exiled to relocation sites in the suburban fringe. This process of accumulation by suburban relocation engenders necroburbia, a dystopic suburban periphery constituted by distant relocation sites where evicted settlers are subjected into violent and asphyxiating everyday geographies. It serves as a spatial fix to enable metropolitan accumulation. Drawing on Achilles Mbembe's notion of necropolitics, I expose necroburbia as a deceptive and violent space, produced through three spatialities: (1) demolition; (2) relocation; (3) necro-suburbanisms, or everyday ways of necropolitical living. These processes illustrate how urban fantasies of growth in cities like Manila are predicated upon necropolitical realities rendering informal settlers as expendable populations, deserving of everyday brutalities.Abstrak: Kung ang paglago ng mga lungsod ay nakabatay sa pagpapalayas ng mga maralita, mahalagang itanong kung saan sila napapadpad at anong mga espasyo ang maaring umusbong mula sa kanilang karanasan? Sa Kamaynilaan, naisasagawa ito sa pamamagitan ng marahas na porma ng urbanisasyon. Upang mapasinayaan ang moderno at angkop na espasyo para sa pamumuhunan, pinapalayas at nililipat ang mga maralita sa mga relokasyon na nasa malalayong kanugnugan ng Kamaynilaan. Ibinibunga ng prosesong ito ang nekroburbya, isang marahas na espasyo na dinadanas ng mga tinataboy na mararalita at nagsisilbing aregladong espasyo ('spatial fix') upang ipadaloy ang kapital. Hango sa teorya ni Achille Mbembe na nekropolitiks, nilalayon kong ilantad ang nekroburbya bilang isang mapanlinlang at marahas na espasyo na binubunga ng tatlong proseso: (1) demolisyon; (2) relokasyon at; (3) nekro-suburbanismo o ang marahas na pang-araw-araw na pamumuhay sa ilalim ng nekropolitiks. Ang mga prosesong ito ay nagpapakita sa pantasiya ng kalungsuran kung saan ang paglago ng syudad gaya ng Maynila ay batay sa realidad ng nekropolitiks na ang mga maralita ay tinuturing mga hamak at patapon, hinahayaang mamuhay ng walang katiyakan, at tinitignan na karapat-dapat lamang na dumanas ng hirap at dahas.We are slowly being killed here. (Interview, relocated residents, 2012) In "off-city" relocation sites of Manila's fringe, death looms as a force defining the lives of residents. Justine Billones, the three-year-old daughter of a relocatee family died of severe diarrhoea, allegedly due to water poisoning in one of the villages

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Biopolitics and Urban Governmentality in Mumbai

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

The enclaved body: Crises of personhood and the embodied geographies of urban gating

Exposing Necroburbia: Suburban Relocation, Necropolitics, and Violent Geographies in Manila

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