Lost and Abandoned

Spatial Precarity and Displacement in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2143239
AutoresKaty Gardner (0000-0002-5608-7585, London School of Economics and Political Science, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen89
Número1
Páginas139-157
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2022.2052925
OpenAlexW4220992409
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas34

This article builds upon work which aims to 'de-exceptionalise' displacement [Cabot and Ramsey, 2021. Deexceptionalizing Displacement: An Introduction. Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, 12(3):286-299] by describing two hitherto unresearched examples of 'unexceptional' displacement. Both involve abandonment and going missing, and both throw light on the ways in which gender, space and emplacement work together to produce particular vulnerabilities via what I have called 'spatial precarity'. In the first, lost or abandoned girls are held in a government-run Safe House on the outskirts of the city. In the second, women are displaced from their marriages when their husbands go missing. The context is a rapidly changing urban environment in which the rapacious development of property and infrastructure has led to a cityscape that is never stable. This environment, and the socio-political relations that are constitutive of it, have helped to create the conditions in which certain people get lost and others go missing, leading to highly gendered forms of displacement

Abandonment (legal · Archaeology · Art · Cityscape · Context (archaeology · Displaced person · Displacement (psychology · Forced migration · Geography · Humanity · Political science · Politics · Precarity · Refugee · Sociology · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development · Gender Studies · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Water Governance and Infrastructure