Colonial urbanism and South Asian cities

Beverley, Eric Lewis

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“…Scholars researching colonial and postcolonial urbanism, in particular, have indicated the various connections between particular orders of power, forms of sociality and social conventions and spatial organisation in urban contexts (Wright, ; Kusno, ; Beverley, ). The central principles of colonial, and later postcolonial, modernists have largely required the standardisation and rationalisation of construction, urban order, circulation routes and what Wright (: 323) calls a ‘greater attention to the hygienic aspects of design’.…”

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Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Tilley

Elias

Rethel

2019

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The dispossession of urban communities across class and racial lines is a global phenomenon linked to the expansion of international investment in the development of ‘exemplary’ city space. However, city evictions are also historically informed and gendered processes which are continuous with past colonial and postcolonial urban rationalisation projects. Drawing on testimonies of women evictees in Jakarta, as well as interviews with public housing managers, this article details the gendered nature of the rationalisation of urban life in the context of a contemporary evictions regime. We argue that the rationalisation of urban space serves to sharpen the gender order by placing material constraints on women's roles, limiting their economic activities and defining them as hygiene‐responsible housewives. Further, and in turn, the limited provision of ‘rusunawa’ public housing, which we show to be a gendered spatial and social transition informed by state doctrine on the family, provides the state with justification for dispossession itself. Finally, women's everyday acts of refusal and resistance show not only that kampung forms of social life continue to be preserved in Jakarta, but also that rationalisation itself is a negotiated and contingent process.

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Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

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2019

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“…In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, the colonial state in Bombay (now, Mumbai) institutionalized building codes and regulations in response to the emerging global consensus that overcrowding, lack of circulation of light and air, and poor drainage were public health catastrophes (Beverley ; Dossal ; Kidambi ). This paper traces the contentious institutionalization of building codes and related regulations.…”

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“…South Asian colonial cities were spaces of new forms of social control and autonomy (Beverley ). The new forms of social control included municipal laws, building regulations, the obsessive gathering of statistics, house inspections, fines for ‘nuisances’ and so on.…”

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“…The new forms of social control included municipal laws, building regulations, the obsessive gathering of statistics, house inspections, fines for ‘nuisances’ and so on. The new forms of autonomy included the municipality as a new political sphere of action, a more vibrant and critical press, and increasing native authority over urban affairs (Arnold ; Beverley ; Dossal ; Kalpagam ; Kidambi ; Nair ). These forms of social control are often theorized from a Foucauldian perspective of power (e.g.…”

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“…Foucault 1975, 2007 [1978], 1980a, 1982; Kalpagam ; Legg , ; Yeoh ). However, the interplay of the practices of control and autonomy is not fully theorized in the sociological literature on colonial cities (Beverley ). To analyze this interplay between control and autonomy, I draw on Foucault's idea of modern power (discipline, power/knowledge, biopower, governmentality) and Habermas’ idea of modern resistance (public sphere, civil society, reasoned debate) .…”

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Codes of Contention: Building Regulations in Colonial Bombay, 1870‐1912

Issar¹

2015

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This paper investigates the contentious institutionalization of building codes in colonial Bombay. Based on original archival research, the paper demonstrates that building codes were inflected with a discourse of moral regulation that masked the material interests of the state. Resistance to these regulations came from many quarters; conflicts within the state, public opinion expressed in the press, and political strategizing of residents and landowners in the public sphere. The paper argues for greater attention to the historically variable interconnections between power and resistance in specific empirical contexts.A person who shall erect a new building which abuts on a street of less than fifty feet … or who shall after erection of such a building make any addition thereto shall not, without the written permission of the Commissioner, erect such building or raise the same by means of any such addition to a greater height than one and a half times the width between the point at which such building approaches nearest to the street and the opposite side of such street… 1 * Sukriti Issar is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), FNSP, 750006, Paris, France, and may be contacted at sukriti.issar@sciencespo.fr

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Built Structures and Planning

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Lawrence-Zúñiga²

2014

A Companion to Urban Anthropology

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Colonial urbanism and South Asian cities

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Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Urban evictions, public housing and the gendered rationalisation of kampung life in Jakarta

Codes of Contention: Building Regulations in Colonial Bombay, 1870‐1912

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