Domesticated Dispossessions? Towards a Transnational Feminist Geopolitics of Development

Casolo, Jennifer; Doshi, Sapana

doi:10.1080/14650045.2013.811644

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“…Localized insecurities brought forth through international development and geopolitics have displaced people from their access to land and resources (Casolo and Doshi 2013;Yeh 2013;Mollett 2014). This has been further marked by an increase in global mobility due to economic need, existing inequalities being reproduced within assistance organizations, and the accumulation and extraction of resources by corporations both with and without land dispossessions (Blunt 2007;Sangtin and Nagar 2006;Paudel 2016).…”

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Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

Fluri

2017

Humanities

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This article examines the crisis of capitalist seduction through the lens of online shopping platforms that raise funds for international assistance organizations and development celebrity advertising. Consumer-based giving has altered the commodity fetish into cliché, subsequently masking the capitalist produced crisis of endemic poverty and global inequality. Celebrity supported consumer-based giving and product advertising are used to illustrate the seductions of capitalism. This article argues that international assistance organizations are embedded in the substance and lifeblood of capitalisms' dependence on inequality and poverty to generate profits/wealth. Consumer driven assistance remains a pervasive crisis hidden by seductive shopping platforms camouflaged as compassion.

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Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

Fluri

2017

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“…In particular recent work on embodiment and precarity in Southern cities has usefully analyzed social and political economic inequalities alongside corporeal experiences of pollution, precarity and environmental politics. They demonstrate how urban inequalities, governing ideologies, and social reproductive labor are inflected by class, gender, caste, race and ethnicity to not only contour embodied experiences of the urban environment but also produce differentiated subjectivities and claims‐making practices (Sultana, ; Casolo and Doshi, ; Zeiderman, ; Fredericks, ; Meehan and Strauss, ; Doshi, ). Studies of water, sanitation, and air pollution in urban India illustrate how the body emerges as a material and symbolically saturated site of everyday environmental subject formation and politics.…”

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Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai

Doshi¹

2018

Int J Urban Regional Res

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In Indian cities, informal ‘slum’ settlements have long been targeted for removal as an environmental improvement strategy, despite their relatively low impact. Slum clearance has escalated with the combination of speculative development and environmental change, creating uneven precarity throughout Mumbai's neighborhoods. State agents play a direct role in slum evictions, but they do not act unilaterally. Diverse lower‐income and middle‐class residents seeking better living conditions have sometimes converged in their embrace of slum clearances and resettlements that advance elite development interests. In other moments, the dispossessing effects of market‐based and elite‐biased slum rehabilitation have fomented contestation. This article analyzes how differently situated groups emerge as ‘environmental subjects’ that embrace or contest improvement projects. It suggests three dimensions of subject formation: governing logics and discourses of urban environmental improvement, the territorial politics of informality, and differentiated embodied experiences of precarity and dispossession. Environmental subject formation is explored through two interventions that entail slum clearance—mangrove and green space conservation and an urban transport infrastructure project. Findings suggest that the connection between displacement and improvement cannot be explained through theories of environmental gentrification but require attention to the simultaneously inclusive and dispossessing regimes of postcolonial development.

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“…Such dispossessions arise from structures of discrimination in urban policy, socio‐spatial segregation and ethno‐nationalism with gendered ramifications that are often left untouched in women‐focused interventions (Doshi ). Accordingly geographers have used the frameworks of intersectionality and articulation to push the boundaries of singular class, gender and race analyses (Casolo and Doshi ; Mollett and Faria ; Nightingale ). Identity‐based marginalisations also increase vulnerability to sexual and other violence, conditions that are steeped in racial‐gender regimes that deny many the basic status of humanity (Mollett ).…”

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Embodied urban political ecology: five propositions

Doshi

2016

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This commentary makes a case for a more rigorous treatment of the body as a material and political site within the sub‐field of urban political ecology. I propose an embodied urban political ecology grounded in a feminist, anti‐racist and postcolonial approach consisting of five orienting propositions. They include attention to metabolism, social reproduction, intersectionality and articulation, emotion and affect, and political subjectivity. Although applicable to political ecology broadly, I focus on the urban because of how often the body is mobilised in conceptualisations of cities and infrastructure despite the fact that material embodiment remains under‐studied and disparately theorised in the subfield. I suggest that theoretical and empirical attention to embodiment in these five key arenas can deepen understandings of the terrain of environmental politics and potential transformation within the subfield of urban political ecology.

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Domesticated Dispossessions? Towards a Transnational Feminist Geopolitics of Development

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Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

Crisis and Consumption: ‘Saving’ the Poor and the Seductions of Capitalism

Greening Displacements, Displacing Green: Environmental Subjectivity, Slum Clearance, and the Embodied Political Ecologies of Dispossession in Mumbai

Embodied urban political ecology: five propositions

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