Book review: Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon

Annavarapu, Sneha

doi:10.1177/0042098016653918

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“…A dominant focus of literature on enclave urbanism wrestles with questions of how and why aspirational residential geographies become fortressed and the implications of their design for the broader "spatial contract" defining the terms of engagement between neighborhoods (Atkinson and Blandy, 2006). In these varied analyses, the fortressed complex-be it a gated community (Davis, 1992;Low, 2003;Ellin, 1997), fortified neighborhood (Ballard and Jones, 2011;Calonge-Reillo, 2022), or privatized township (Knox, 2008;Pow, 2011;Srivastava, 2014)-emerges as a response to desires to secure the self, home, and community from perceived threats from the outside. Such spaces typically employ multiple security technologies, including walls, gates, guards, and security cameras, to deter threats and simulate order.…”

Section: The Securitized Body In the Fortressed Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In India, enclaved leisure spaces, such as walking tracks, gardens, and gyms, support long-restricted leisure practices and invite westernized attire as expressions of a freedom from both the ogling public eye and the surveillant gaze of traditional neighborhoods (Bernroider, 2018;Srivastava, 2014). The contrast between the openness of such enclaves and the restricted female agency experienced in the public city, as in the Saudi case, invites enclaved transit to other privatized public spaces, especially the shopping mall, a defining sphere of feminine middle-class urbanity (Tewari and Bhatia, 2019).…”

Section: The Securitized Body In the Fortressed Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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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%

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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“…My acquaintance with the area was part of another project but in the first few visits, I observed that this neighbourhood exhibited a strong sense of belonging, community, and togetherness notwithstanding its negative perceptions to the outsiders as dirty and dangerous (Prasad, 2023). And this sense of community was found despite the absence of any supermarket or malls, which are a point of creating collective consciousness among those living in the centre of urban city (Srivastava, 2014). This feeling of collectivism emerges from the fact that the residents are migrants from North Indian states mainly from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.…”

Section: Symbolic Of 'Ethnification' Of Urban Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Informality and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry into the Informal Labor Dynamics of Women in a Delhi Resettlement Colony

Prasad

2023

Vantage J Thematic Analys

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In the vibrant tapestry of urban existence, the threads of informality and gender are interwoven, creating a narrative that remains largely unexplored. This academic endeavour embarks upon a captivating journey through the kaleidoscope of Delhi's resettlement colony, where the stories of informal women workers emerge as a 'habitus' of a verdant landscape. Adopting a feminist lens, this study delves into the intricate nuances of urban informality, offering insights into the lives and labours of these resilient women. The paper highlights how gender intersects with informality, shaping women's experiences of vulnerabilities, and agency. The emphasis is on the need for gender-sensitive policies and interventions that address inequalities and empower women. The paper is based on the findings of a sociological study of women living in Sanjay Colony in Delhi and work as informalcasual workers. A feminist approach to urban informality provides a nuanced understanding of informal practices and their implications for urban life, highlighting the struggles, resilience, and transformative potential of women living and working in cities.

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“…Mukesh claims that a major problem behind the conflict was that the requisite ground surveys before the planning of the Expressway were not conducted. The source of his knowledge is the forensic work of a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) (see Srivastava, 2015, p. xxi) that he is a part of. This RWA, known as the Dwarka Expressway Welfare Association (DXPWA) 7 is an association of over 130,000 families living across 89 gated communities along the Expressway.…”

Section: The Dream Highwaymentioning

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Extended urbanisation and the politics of uncertainty: The contested pathways of highway corridors in India

Bathla

2022

Geographical Journal

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This paper explores how uncertainty has become a central constitutive feature under the ongoing attempts at rapid extension of highway corridors across India. Contrary to the terra nullius assumption that India's highway programmes operate under, the pathways to accumulation they seek to open present a palimpsest of pre‐existing claims, occupancies and forms of dwelling that come into conflict with the attempts to extend urban space. The paper specifically follows the prolonged uncertainty surrounding a regional highway corridor between the cities of Delhi and Gurgaon, the Dwarka Expressway, which underwent multiple legal contestations over evictions and land disputes. In doing so, it analyses how managing uncertainty in the production of highway corridors becomes profitable for the state, powerful corporate actors and middle‐class homebuyer‐investors, presenting a form of value that can be commodified and exchanged. However, on the other hand, owing to its double‐edged nature, uncertainty also becomes productive for the urban majority in laying claims to urban space. As rapid extended urbanisation increasingly disrupts the lifeworlds of marginal communities, this paper calls for embracing the politics and practices of uncertainty in the continued efforts to push ex‐centric urban analysis beyond the narrow focus on state processes and commodification.

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Book review: Entangled Urbanism: Slum, Gated Community and Shopping Mall in Delhi and Gurgaon

Cited by 7 publications

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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

Urban Informality and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry into the Informal Labor Dynamics of Women in a Delhi Resettlement Colony

Extended urbanisation and the politics of uncertainty: The contested pathways of highway corridors in India

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