Corruption, Justice and Violence in Democratic India

Miklian, Jason; Carney, Scott

doi:10.1353/sais.2013.0011

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“…Since 40%-50% of the Indian economy takes place on the black market, it becomes evident that any understanding of the informal economy rests on its inevitable entanglement with the formal sector. In fact, the public, 'white' economy that constitutes the 'emerging power' narrative perpetuated by the Global North and Indian elites fundamentally relies on bribery and grafts for its operational efficiency (Miklian and Carney, 2013). This holds true in the context of the Chandola landfill.…”

Section: Exploring Five Characteristics Of the Conflict-religion-povementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, the normative value of corruption is intimately linked to privilege, leaving well-connected individuals, businesses and politicians with the material and social resources to maneuver the system with ease (Miklian and Carney, 2013). For the average Indian citizen, however, corruption remains a painful reminder of the failed promise of democracy.…”

Section: Exploring Five Characteristics Of the Conflict-religion-povementioning

confidence: 99%

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Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad

Miklian

Birkvad

2016

International Area Studies Review

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Ahmedabad is often called an Indian 'success story' in terms of economic urbanization, but it is also a city highly segregated along religious and caste lines, and a flashpoint in the 2002 Hindu-Muslim riots that left thousands dead. Most of the Muslim communities relocated after the violence work in a vast informal sector around the city's landfills and waste management peripheries that are disregarded by local government and endemic with corruption. While many scholars see this as a recipe for violent conflict, we explore the garbage slum community in Chandola to show that a leveling of social stratification and reduction of segregation amongst Hindu and Muslim communities in this slum results in a more congruous inter-group relationship than current literatures on the relationship between poverty, religion and violence might predict. However, their unity has come at the expense of jointly 'othering' an even more vulnerable group of newcomers-a Bangladeshi migrant community that is persecuted both by the state as well as by fellow residents. We show that while violence markers are constituted in new ways, challenging some assumptions of how inter-group violence is triggered, the fundamental societal weaknesses that facilitate such tensions remain prevalent despite changing conflict actor allegiances.

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Section: Exploring Five Characteristics Of the Conflict-religion-povementioning

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Section: Exploring Five Characteristics Of the Conflict-religion-povementioning

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Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad

Miklian

Birkvad

2016

International Area Studies Review

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“…The muted success of JNNURM and related urban policies is linked in part with India's urban informality. Urban governance and basic services are often organized and provided through informal mechanisms (Miklian and Carney, 2013). Informal economies provide livelihoods for the majority of urban dwellers; grassroots organization is used to gain rights of citizenship, tenure and service delivery (Appadurai, 2001;Roy, 2009); and informal local-level political connections are used to influence modes of urban governance (Benjamin, 2008).…”

Section: Informality and (Un)planningmentioning

confidence: 99%

The evolution of the smart cities agenda in India

Hoelscher

2016

International Area Studies Review

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With the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, urban-led economic growth in India was firmly framed around a vision of 'smart cities', an ambiguous concept, which promotes the integration of information and communication technologies in cities to improve economic growth, quality of life, governance, mobility and sustainability. Given its current policy importance, this article examines how the smart cities agenda in India has emerged, what it has encompassed and its potential for transformative urban development. Reviewing policy documents and statements in combination with selected key stakeholder interviews, this article traces the emergence of the smart cities discourse in India, suggesting that the vision and concept of the smart city has shifted over time and has been evoked in different ways to serve different purposes. Overall, the smart cities agenda in India appears to be characterized by a failure to conceptualize and develop an integrated set of policies, and while a clearer (yet contested) concept is emerging, the prospects for success are uncertain.

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“…For many communities in the frontier, coal is the most accessible and controllable resource, particularly given the methods of extraction common at the local level. Of primary importance in coal extraction at the national level is the Ministry of Coal, separated from the Ministry of Power, Coal, and Non-Conventional Energy Sources in 1992 and embroiled in scandals ever since, including the infamous 'coalgate' wherein the Ministry was accused of corruption in the allocation of coal blocks (Miklian and Carney, 2013). The Coal Bearing Areas (Acquisition and Development) Act, 1957 enables the Indian Government to acquire land for coal extraction through a series of stages, and its implementation has been the source of the recent controversy.…”

Section: The Coal Frontier In Indiamentioning

confidence: 99%