Loraine Kennedy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3591000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Loraine Kennedy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Loraine |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennedy |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEDY L |
| AFFILIATIONS | École des hautes études en sciences sociales |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9197-207X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Policymaking and Expertise in Telangana State: Mediating Knowledge and Interests in Pursuit of Economic Development and Social Justice in Hyderabad
This chapter examines the role of expertise and knowledge in policymaking and delivery in the recently formed state of Telangana in South India. In the context of rescaled state space and political authority, the problem is framed as one of mediation between different types of knowledge and interests in pursuit of a political settlement. This question was explored through a comparative analysis of two distinct policy arenas, welfare housing and u…
Local governance in India’s newly urbanizing places: Contingent mandates and territories in peripheral villages of Chennai
International audience
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: A comparative socio-spatial analytics approach
This research advances our understanding of peri-urban dynamics in the Global South through an innovative comparative socio-spatial analytics approach combining geospatial and qualitative fieldwork-based methods. Drawing on three cases in China, Ghana and India, the comparison is operationalized through two pairs of conceptual lenses developed inductively. We argue that heterogeneous peri-urban morphologies in the Global South, which share severa…
The Co-production of Space, Politics and Subjectivities in India's Urban Peripheries
Introduction In her pathbreaking essay on modes of production of urban space in the global South, anthropologist Teresa Caldeira (2017) deploys the concept of "peripheral urbanization" to conjure "a problem-space that allows us to investigate logics of the production of the urban that differ from those of the North Atlantic ... as a means of exploring processes of both socio-spatial formation and theory-making" (p. 4). Along similar lines, in thi…
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Interrogating data justice on Hyderabad’s urban frontier: Information politics and the internal differentiation of vulnerable communities
How does data visibility affect vulnerable communities that face uncertainty over land tenure? Can data justice be realised in settings of acute resource injustice? These are the overarching questions that our case study interrogates by opening up the black box of the community in the volatile and fast-transforming peri-urban fringe of Hyderabad, India. We examine the unfolding of data and information processes through the lens of enumeration and…
Federalism as a Moderating Force? State-level Responses to India’s New Citizenship Law
This contribution focuses on the response of India’s states to the central government’s controversial decision to amend the country’s citizenship law. Since the legislation was passed in late 2019, a dozen states and Union territories as well as hundreds of local bodies have expressed their dissent in various ways. Mobilizing both substantive and procedural arguments, they have passed resolutions and pledged not to implement the law and related m…
The Politics of Land Acquisition in Haryana: Managing Dominant Caste Interests in the Name of Development
Anti-Special Economic Zone (SEZ) mobilisation in Haryana failed to generate a mass movement. This is despite the political strength of farmers and their deep resentment of the government's policy to build up land reserves for industrial purposes. This article argues that there are two main reasons for this outcome. First, the state government put in place a series of significant policies to compensate landowners and give them a stake in the indus…
Data Justice through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier
Nouvelles spatialités étatiques et économiques dans l’Inde fédérale
Cet article propose un point de synthèse sur la manière dont les réformes économiques appliquées en Inde depuis presque trois décennies redéfinissent la dimension spatiale de l’action étatique et modifient de ce fait les géographies économiques et la géopolitique interne de la gouvernance fédérale. Si les tensions entre New Delhi et les États ne sont nullement récentes, cette relation doit composer désormais avec deux paramètres majeurs : une cro…
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale – Territory, Politics, Governance. The broad aim of this comparative study is to examine the relationship between governance networks and the emergence (or lack thereof) of metropolitan scales through an analysis of metropolitan development-policy processes. It explores the characteristics and substance of policies that purport to be metropolitan in scope through a set of six case stu…
State restructuring and emerging patterns of subnational policy-making and governance in China and India
Engaging with theory and comparative research, the specific aim of this special issue is to contribute to scholarship engaging with state rescaling theory in non-Western societies as well as to on-going debates about the changing scalar dimensions of urban and regional development. It does so by examining scalar dynamics on the basis of empirical case studies in China and India, including fieldwork-based research. The starting point of the papers…
Special Economic Zones in India: Interrogating the Nexus of Land, Development and Urbanization
In the context of the ongoing debate on land acquisition in India and its relationship to development, this article presents an in-depth investigation of the characteristics of special economic zones (SEZs) in India. This includes the nature of exports and economic activity, their use of land and their location. It finds that a large majority of the SEZs are less than 1 sq. km, their exports focused on the information technology/information-techn…
The politics and changing paradigm of megaproject development in metropolitan cities
Stratégies spatiales de l’État en Inde. Le réétalonnage de l’État au travers de la politique des zones franches
IntroductionEn mobilisant la théorie du réétalonnage de l’État (state rescaling), cet article propose d’analyser la politique des zones franches en Inde comme une stratégie de redéploiement spatial de l’État, pour mettre en place de nouvelles géographies économiques, mais également de nouveaux espaces réglementaires (Brenner, 2004). Le point de départ de ce corpus théorique est le changement d’échelle qui s’opère au sein des États nationaux dans …
Métropoles en débat: (Dé)constructions De La Ville Compétitive
La compétitivité, un horizon incontournable de la ville ? Aucune ville n’y est en tout cas insensible, ni les favorites des classements internationaux, ni celles ne pouvant prétendre qu’à une place régionale, ni même les autres, reléguées de la hiérarchie mondiale mais impatientes de faire bonne figure. Cet ouvrage a précisément pour objectif d’interroger une telle unanimité. Que signifie au juste ce terme de « compétitivité » dont toutes les vil…
L'État et le développement industriel en Inde: De la petite industrie aux zones économiques spéciales
Beginning in the 1980s, the political economy of India underwent significant transformations : the reform process launched at this time sought to deregulate industrial activities and gradually open them to international trade. While the macroeconomic aspects of these reforms are relatively well-known, this is less true of their sectoral policies. In particular, it is to be underscored that the state is still present in the industrial domain, wher…
Comparing State-level policy responses to economic reforms in India: A subnational political economy perspective
By rewriting the rules of economic governance in India’s federal democracy, economic reforms adopted in the 1990s have had far-reaching consequences on the relations between the Union (or central state) and the States. First, the dismantling of the centralised management of the economy has created greater scope for State governments to elaborate their economic development policies. Second, the reforms require cooperation from State governments an…
The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India: Economic Governance and State Spatial Rescaling
State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescale…
Engaging with the Concept of Governance in the Study of Indian Metropolises
The aim of this empirical study is to reflect on urban governance in India’s large metropolitan cities by examining healthcare services in Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. The objective is not a strict comparison of the cities per se, indeed the data sets available are not identical for the three cities, rather the idea is to use a comparative perspective to tease out general findings about the evolution of supply and demand for a given service in re…
Présentation
Ce court texte présente ce numéro spécial sur les villes indiennes et fournit des éléments de contexte pour situer les cinq contributions qui le composent. Avant d'aborder la période actuelle, un survol des politiques urbaines menées dans les décennies suivant l'indépendance souligne le rôle ambigu de la ville dans le modèle indien de développement ainsi que la relative négligence des questions urbaines jusqu'aux années 1980. Dans les années 1990…
Villes indiennes sous tutelle ? Une réflexion sur les échelles de gouvernance à partir des cas de Mumbai et Hyderabad
De manière croissante, les décideurs politiques en Inde perçoivent le rôle crucial des villes dans l’économie nationale et les politiques actuelles menées par les États régionaux reflètent cette prise de conscience. Basée sur les cas proches, sans être entièrement comparables, d’Hyderabad et de Mumbai, cette recherche montre que les gouvernements des États ont adopté des stratégies de croissance centrée sur la ville, à l’instar des tendances inte…
Dynamique économique et recompositions territoriales, une industrie traditionnelle locale de l'Inde du sud face à la mondialisation
Comme pour d’autres manufactures traditionnelles en Inde, la structure de l’industrie du cuir est dans le pays tamoul dominée par les PME. Cette situation héritée des politiques publiques visant la protection des emplois et une répartition territoriale équilibrée des activités, élaborées dans un contexte d’économie nationale protégée, est aujourd’hui remise en cause par la mondialisation. Depuis les années 1990, la libéralisation de l’économie ex…
The Politics of Land Acquisition in Haryana: Managing Dominant Caste Interests in the Name of Development
Anti-Special Economic Zone (SEZ) mobilisation in Haryana failed to generate a mass movement. This is despite the political strength of farmers and their deep resentment of the government's policy to build up land reserves for industrial purposes. This article argues that there are two main reasons for this outcome. First, the state government put in place a series of significant policies to compensate landowners and give them a stake in the indus…
Peri-urban transformation in the Global South: A comparative socio-spatial analytics approach
This research advances our understanding of peri-urban dynamics in the Global South through an innovative comparative socio-spatial analytics approach combining geospatial and qualitative fieldwork-based methods. Drawing on three cases in China, Ghana and India, the comparison is operationalized through two pairs of conceptual lenses developed inductively. We argue that heterogeneous peri-urban morphologies in the Global South, which share severa…
Regional industrial policies driving peri-urban dynamics in Hyderabad, India
The Co-production of Space, Politics and Subjectivities in India's Urban Peripheries
Introduction In her pathbreaking essay on modes of production of urban space in the global South, anthropologist Teresa Caldeira (2017) deploys the concept of "peripheral urbanization" to conjure "a problem-space that allows us to investigate logics of the production of the urban that differ from those of the North Atlantic ... as a means of exploring processes of both socio-spatial formation and theory-making" (p. 4). Along similar lines, in thi…
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale – Territory, Politics, Governance. The broad aim of this comparative study is to examine the relationship between governance networks and the emergence (or lack thereof) of metropolitan scales through an analysis of metropolitan development-policy processes. It explores the characteristics and substance of policies that purport to be metropolitan in scope through a set of six case stu…
Cooperating for Survival: Tannery Pollution and Joint Action in the Palar Valley (India)
The politics and changing paradigm of megaproject development in metropolitan cities
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
State restructuring and emerging patterns of subnational policy-making and governance in China and India
Engaging with theory and comparative research, the specific aim of this special issue is to contribute to scholarship engaging with state rescaling theory in non-Western societies as well as to on-going debates about the changing scalar dimensions of urban and regional development. It does so by examining scalar dynamics on the basis of empirical case studies in China and India, including fieldwork-based research. The starting point of the papers…
Stratégies spatiales de l’État en Inde. Le réétalonnage de l’État au travers de la politique des zones franches
IntroductionEn mobilisant la théorie du réétalonnage de l’État (state rescaling), cet article propose d’analyser la politique des zones franches en Inde comme une stratégie de redéploiement spatial de l’État, pour mettre en place de nouvelles géographies économiques, mais également de nouveaux espaces réglementaires (Brenner, 2004). Le point de départ de ce corpus théorique est le changement d’échelle qui s’opère au sein des États nationaux dans …
L'industrie du coïr au Kerala. Économie traditionnelle et mutations sociales
The Coir Industry in Kerala. Traditional Economy and Social Change Coir has been produced for centuries in Kerala and even today this traditional industry provides employment to many people, especially women. However it is currently experiencing severe economic hardship due to a drop in demand on international markets and to increased competition. The recovery plan put forward by the government, which involves adopting more modern techniques, ref…
Cooperating for Survival: Tannery Pollution and Joint Action in the Palar Valley (India)
Protégée ou condamnée ? Les politiques publiques à l'égard de la petite industrie
Kennedy Loraine. Protégée ou condamnée ? Les politiques publiques à l'égard de la petite industrie. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 42, n°165, 2001. La libéralisation économique en Inde : inflexion ou rupture ? sous la direction de Frédéric Landy. pp. 105-128
Décentralisation et rééquilibrage en faveur des régions en Inde. L'exemple de l'Andhra Pradesh
orientations within the scope of national macro-economic policies. The case is well presented by Andra Pradesh, a State whose overtly liberal policies and compulsive growth strategies are quite remarkable. Governed since 1996 and 2004 by the regional party of Telogu Desam, this State has succeeded in attracting private investors and international funding agencies
Globalización y localidad: Espacios, actores, movilidades e identidades
Los trabajos que este libro reúne surgen de investigaciones de campo que exploran, de manera comparativa y pluridisciplinaria, cuatro aspectos fundamentales de los llamados "espacios infranacionales" dentro de la globalización: las reorganizaciones productivas de las ciudades y regiones; las transformaciones de las instituciones y los actores involucrados en la toma de decisiones a nivel local; las recomposiciones territoriales y las movilidades …
Regional industrial policies driving peri-urban dynamics in Hyderabad, India
Dynamique économique et recompositions territoriales, une industrie traditionnelle locale de l'Inde du sud face à la mondialisation
Comme pour d’autres manufactures traditionnelles en Inde, la structure de l’industrie du cuir est dans le pays tamoul dominée par les PME. Cette situation héritée des politiques publiques visant la protection des emplois et une répartition territoriale équilibrée des activités, élaborées dans un contexte d’économie nationale protégée, est aujourd’hui remise en cause par la mondialisation. Depuis les années 1990, la libéralisation de l’économie ex…
Présentation
Ce court texte présente ce numéro spécial sur les villes indiennes et fournit des éléments de contexte pour situer les cinq contributions qui le composent. Avant d'aborder la période actuelle, un survol des politiques urbaines menées dans les décennies suivant l'indépendance souligne le rôle ambigu de la ville dans le modèle indien de développement ainsi que la relative négligence des questions urbaines jusqu'aux années 1980. Dans les années 1990…
Villes indiennes sous tutelle ? Une réflexion sur les échelles de gouvernance à partir des cas de Mumbai et Hyderabad
De manière croissante, les décideurs politiques en Inde perçoivent le rôle crucial des villes dans l’économie nationale et les politiques actuelles menées par les États régionaux reflètent cette prise de conscience. Basée sur les cas proches, sans être entièrement comparables, d’Hyderabad et de Mumbai, cette recherche montre que les gouvernements des États ont adopté des stratégies de croissance centrée sur la ville, à l’instar des tendances inte…
Engaging with the Concept of Governance in the Study of Indian Metropolises
The aim of this empirical study is to reflect on urban governance in India’s large metropolitan cities by examining healthcare services in Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. The objective is not a strict comparison of the cities per se, indeed the data sets available are not identical for the three cities, rather the idea is to use a comparative perspective to tease out general findings about the evolution of supply and demand for a given service in re…
Comparing State-level policy responses to economic reforms in India: A subnational political economy perspective
By rewriting the rules of economic governance in India’s federal democracy, economic reforms adopted in the 1990s have had far-reaching consequences on the relations between the Union (or central state) and the States. First, the dismantling of the centralised management of the economy has created greater scope for State governments to elaborate their economic development policies. Second, the reforms require cooperation from State governments an…
The Politics of Economic Restructuring in India: Economic Governance and State Spatial Rescaling
State re-scaling is the central concept mobilized in this book to interpret the political processes that are producing new economic spaces in India. In the quarter century since economic reforms were introduced, the Indian economy has experienced strong growth accompanied by extensive sectoral and spatial restructuring. This book argues that in this reformed institutional context, where both state spaces and economic geographies are being rescale…
Métropoles en débat: (Dé)constructions De La Ville Compétitive
La compétitivité, un horizon incontournable de la ville ? Aucune ville n’y est en tout cas insensible, ni les favorites des classements internationaux, ni celles ne pouvant prétendre qu’à une place régionale, ni même les autres, reléguées de la hiérarchie mondiale mais impatientes de faire bonne figure. Cet ouvrage a précisément pour objectif d’interroger une telle unanimité. Que signifie au juste ce terme de « compétitivité » dont toutes les vil…
L'État et le développement industriel en Inde: De la petite industrie aux zones économiques spéciales
Beginning in the 1980s, the political economy of India underwent significant transformations : the reform process launched at this time sought to deregulate industrial activities and gradually open them to international trade. While the macroeconomic aspects of these reforms are relatively well-known, this is less true of their sectoral policies. In particular, it is to be underscored that the state is still present in the industrial domain, wher…
Special Economic Zones in India: Interrogating the Nexus of Land, Development and Urbanization
In the context of the ongoing debate on land acquisition in India and its relationship to development, this article presents an in-depth investigation of the characteristics of special economic zones (SEZs) in India. This includes the nature of exports and economic activity, their use of land and their location. It finds that a large majority of the SEZs are less than 1 sq. km, their exports focused on the information technology/information-techn…
The politics and changing paradigm of megaproject development in metropolitan cities
Stratégies spatiales de l’État en Inde. Le réétalonnage de l’État au travers de la politique des zones franches
IntroductionEn mobilisant la théorie du réétalonnage de l’État (state rescaling), cet article propose d’analyser la politique des zones franches en Inde comme une stratégie de redéploiement spatial de l’État, pour mettre en place de nouvelles géographies économiques, mais également de nouveaux espaces réglementaires (Brenner, 2004). Le point de départ de ce corpus théorique est le changement d’échelle qui s’opère au sein des États nationaux dans …
State restructuring and emerging patterns of subnational policy-making and governance in China and India
Engaging with theory and comparative research, the specific aim of this special issue is to contribute to scholarship engaging with state rescaling theory in non-Western societies as well as to on-going debates about the changing scalar dimensions of urban and regional development. It does so by examining scalar dynamics on the basis of empirical case studies in China and India, including fieldwork-based research. The starting point of the papers…
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale
The role of governance networks in building metropolitan scale – Territory, Politics, Governance. The broad aim of this comparative study is to examine the relationship between governance networks and the emergence (or lack thereof) of metropolitan scales through an analysis of metropolitan development-policy processes. It explores the characteristics and substance of policies that purport to be metropolitan in scope through a set of six case stu…
Data Justice through the Prism of Information Politics and Resource Injustice: A Case Study from Hyderabad’s Urban Frontier
Nouvelles spatialités étatiques et économiques dans l’Inde fédérale
Cet article propose un point de synthèse sur la manière dont les réformes économiques appliquées en Inde depuis presque trois décennies redéfinissent la dimension spatiale de l’action étatique et modifient de ce fait les géographies économiques et la géopolitique interne de la gouvernance fédérale. Si les tensions entre New Delhi et les États ne sont nullement récentes, cette relation doit composer désormais avec deux paramètres majeurs : une cro…
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial governance in India
Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this paper examines pathways to illiberal governance within ostensibly liberal democratic contexts. The history of the IALA exemplifies the modes by which the movement towards representative government at the local level in India was subverted at its very origins by the insertion of exceptions into…
Outsourced urban governance as a state rescaling strategy in Hyderabad, India
Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions
Interrogating data justice on Hyderabad’s urban frontier: Information politics and the internal differentiation of vulnerable communities
How does data visibility affect vulnerable communities that face uncertainty over land tenure? Can data justice be realised in settings of acute resource injustice? These are the overarching questions that our case study interrogates by opening up the black box of the community in the volatile and fast-transforming peri-urban fringe of Hyderabad, India. We examine the unfolding of data and information processes through the lens of enumeration and…
Political science (28 works) · Economics (16 works) · Geography (15 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Corporate governance (11 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (11 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (10 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (10 works) · Humanities (9 works)