Anitra Baliga
Biographic Data
| ID | 382237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anitra Baliga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Baliga |
| SIGNATURE | BALIGA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-4655-7445 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The real estate turn in the slum: India’s urban land monetization in comparative perspective
This article contributes to scholarship on Asia’s “real estate turn” through a comparison of in situ “slum redevelopment” programs underway in Delhi and Mumbai that reveals the institutional underpinnings and character of state involvement in each city. Comparative research on state-led financialization in Asia, has typically tended to treat China as the paradigmatic case, with its centralized land regimes and relatively autonomous state land man…
Chasing land, chasing crisis: Interrogating speculative urban development through developers' pursuit of land commodification in Mumbai
Mumbai, along with a few other metropolitan cities in India, witnessed an unprecedented flow of finance capital toward the development of new real estate soon after efforts to liberalize the country's real estate sector took force in 2005. Fifteen years later, however, the reality on the ground looks bleak. Not only does the demand for housing remain as high as ever before in Mumbai, but hundreds of real estate projects lie unfinished, abandoned,…
Grounding urban production: Resident claims-making as financialization in Mumbai's 'slum' lands
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
Grounding urban production: Resident claims-making as financialization in Mumbai's 'slum' lands
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
Chasing land, chasing crisis: Interrogating speculative urban development through developers' pursuit of land commodification in Mumbai
Mumbai, along with a few other metropolitan cities in India, witnessed an unprecedented flow of finance capital toward the development of new real estate soon after efforts to liberalize the country's real estate sector took force in 2005. Fifteen years later, however, the reality on the ground looks bleak. Not only does the demand for housing remain as high as ever before in Mumbai, but hundreds of real estate projects lie unfinished, abandoned,…
Grounding urban production: Resident claims-making as financialization in Mumbai's 'slum' lands
Mumbai's slum redevelopment projects have emerged as key sites for financial investment. Yet, while residents' claims-making has shaped the manner in which slum lands have been converted into financial investments, their interests and actions have rarely been viewed as part of the financialization processes. This paper situates local residents and developers in the networks of intermediaries increasingly used to study housing financialization. Ba…
Chasing land, chasing crisis: Interrogating speculative urban development through developers' pursuit of land commodification in Mumbai
Mumbai, along with a few other metropolitan cities in India, witnessed an unprecedented flow of finance capital toward the development of new real estate soon after efforts to liberalize the country's real estate sector took force in 2005. Fifteen years later, however, the reality on the ground looks bleak. Not only does the demand for housing remain as high as ever before in Mumbai, but hundreds of real estate projects lie unfinished, abandoned,…
The real estate turn in the slum: India’s urban land monetization in comparative perspective
This article contributes to scholarship on Asia’s “real estate turn” through a comparison of in situ “slum redevelopment” programs underway in Delhi and Mumbai that reveals the institutional underpinnings and character of state involvement in each city. Comparative research on state-led financialization in Asia, has typically tended to treat China as the paradigmatic case, with its centralized land regimes and relatively autonomous state land man…
Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Finance (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (2 works) · Real estate (2 works) · Slum (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (2 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (2 works)