Sheema Fatima
Biographic Data
| ID | 5804546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheema Fatima |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheema |
| FAMILY NAME | Fatima |
| SIGNATURE | FATIMA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tata Institute of Social Sciences |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Locating Urban Knowledge
,
Disposing Land in Patna: Bureaucratic Evasion and Urban Planning as Negotiation
The prolonged absence of a functioning master plan is not simply a failure of institutional capacity but a practice embedded in Bihar’s socio-political and agrarian rooted realities that inform landed elites’ spatial practices in urban areas. Hence, urban planning operates less as a technocratic, rational process and more as a historically contingent and socially negotiated practice mediated through caste and bureaucratic networks. Drawing on lan…
Categorizing land: An account of leftover land in Patna
This paper is an account of Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) and its role in allocating housing and land from the 1970s onwards in Patna. The housing board typifies the bureaucratic practices of property-making at its best and demonstrates how the bureaucracy strategically aligned itself with caste-driven state politics. The unstable nature of forward–backward caste-based partisan politics meant politicians made unceasing efforts to garner suppor…
Memorialising and Forgetting in the City: Recovering Azimabad from the Many Pasts of Patna
This article interrogates the conventional idea of urban by historicising Patna, a provincial town neglected in urban studies. We argue that behind this neglect is the perception of urbanity as a project of modernity, development and infrastructure. The article foregrounds the role of culture in terms of literary productions and activities as significant yet ignored markers to define and reconceptualise urbanity. By studying the cultural activiti…
Categorizing land: An account of leftover land in Patna
This paper is an account of Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) and its role in allocating housing and land from the 1970s onwards in Patna. The housing board typifies the bureaucratic practices of property-making at its best and demonstrates how the bureaucracy strategically aligned itself with caste-driven state politics. The unstable nature of forward–backward caste-based partisan politics meant politicians made unceasing efforts to garner suppor…
Memorialising and Forgetting in the City: Recovering Azimabad from the Many Pasts of Patna
This article interrogates the conventional idea of urban by historicising Patna, a provincial town neglected in urban studies. We argue that behind this neglect is the perception of urbanity as a project of modernity, development and infrastructure. The article foregrounds the role of culture in terms of literary productions and activities as significant yet ignored markers to define and reconceptualise urbanity. By studying the cultural activiti…
Categorizing land: An account of leftover land in Patna
This paper is an account of Bihar State Housing Board (BSHB) and its role in allocating housing and land from the 1970s onwards in Patna. The housing board typifies the bureaucratic practices of property-making at its best and demonstrates how the bureaucracy strategically aligned itself with caste-driven state politics. The unstable nature of forward–backward caste-based partisan politics meant politicians made unceasing efforts to garner suppor…
Locating Urban Knowledge
,
Disposing Land in Patna: Bureaucratic Evasion and Urban Planning as Negotiation
The prolonged absence of a functioning master plan is not simply a failure of institutional capacity but a practice embedded in Bihar’s socio-political and agrarian rooted realities that inform landed elites’ spatial practices in urban areas. Hence, urban planning operates less as a technocratic, rational process and more as a historically contingent and socially negotiated practice mediated through caste and bureaucratic networks. Drawing on lan…
South Asian Studies and Conflicts (2 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agrarian society (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Economy (1 works) · Forgetting (1 works) · Geography (1 works)