Sushmita Pati
Biographic Data
| ID | 807306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sushmita Pati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sushmita |
| FAMILY NAME | Pati |
| SIGNATURE | PATI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sushmita Pati is with the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, Karnatka, India |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9341-6106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Bulldozers in the City
Bulldozers have been ubiquitous machines on the Indian landscape in the last two decades, but of late have been violently deployed by the majoritarian state to dispossess Muslims. This article brings together two very different lives of the machine - one in which the machine becomes the adjudicator of justice through the extrajudicial exercise of power; and the other, that circulates in the construction industry, its repair and refurbishment. It …
Did India Ever Have a Right to the City Movement ? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times
In this article I look into the weakening state of housing justice in India, especially in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and increased state violence. I ask how and why housing rights in India have mostly remained limited in their approach without being able to demand broader access to the city through right to the city discourse. In trying to find answers to this question, I examine housing rights activism in India historically. I show ho…
Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics
This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a provisional consolidation of intensities, inhabitants and their practices, affiliations and orientations that give rise to continuously mutating forms of sense, care, and collective action. Whereas the work and eff…
The productive fuzziness of land documents: The state and processes of accumulation in urban villages of Delhi
This article revolves around the fuzzy nature of land titles within and around the ' Lal Dora' (literally, 'red thread') ringing the urban villages of Delhi to understand how property ownership gets mediated through documents. Through a close look at three kinds of documents-land records, a particular notification over construction in the Lal Dora region and the General Power of Attorney, it pries open how these documents govern property relation…
Mumbai: Political economy of crime and space
Abdul Shaban's book explores the relationship between changing spatial relations and crime in the city of Mumbai. Shaban locates crime within the larger ecological transformation in the city in ter
The productive fuzziness of land documents: The state and processes of accumulation in urban villages of Delhi
This article revolves around the fuzzy nature of land titles within and around the ' Lal Dora' (literally, 'red thread') ringing the urban villages of Delhi to understand how property ownership gets mediated through documents. Through a close look at three kinds of documents-land records, a particular notification over construction in the Lal Dora region and the General Power of Attorney, it pries open how these documents govern property relation…
Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics
This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a provisional consolidation of intensities, inhabitants and their practices, affiliations and orientations that give rise to continuously mutating forms of sense, care, and collective action. Whereas the work and eff…
Bulldozers in the City
Bulldozers have been ubiquitous machines on the Indian landscape in the last two decades, but of late have been violently deployed by the majoritarian state to dispossess Muslims. This article brings together two very different lives of the machine - one in which the machine becomes the adjudicator of justice through the extrajudicial exercise of power; and the other, that circulates in the construction industry, its repair and refurbishment. It …
Did India Ever Have a Right to the City Movement ? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times
In this article I look into the weakening state of housing justice in India, especially in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and increased state violence. I ask how and why housing rights in India have mostly remained limited in their approach without being able to demand broader access to the city through right to the city discourse. In trying to find answers to this question, I examine housing rights activism in India historically. I show ho…
Mumbai: Political economy of crime and space
Abdul Shaban's book explores the relationship between changing spatial relations and crime in the city of Mumbai. Shaban locates crime within the larger ecological transformation in the city in ter
The productive fuzziness of land documents: The state and processes of accumulation in urban villages of Delhi
This article revolves around the fuzzy nature of land titles within and around the ' Lal Dora' (literally, 'red thread') ringing the urban villages of Delhi to understand how property ownership gets mediated through documents. Through a close look at three kinds of documents-land records, a particular notification over construction in the Lal Dora region and the General Power of Attorney, it pries open how these documents govern property relation…
Re‐arranging the urban: Forms, rhythms, politics
This intervention is by a collective of scholars working on various facets of urbanisation in Asia. Focusing on the notion of arrangements/re‐arrangements, it seeks to extend the consideration of urban politics as a matter of surges, a provisional consolidation of intensities, inhabitants and their practices, affiliations and orientations that give rise to continuously mutating forms of sense, care, and collective action. Whereas the work and eff…
Did India Ever Have a Right to the City Movement ? Rethinking Housing Justice in Violent Times
In this article I look into the weakening state of housing justice in India, especially in the context of the Covid‐19 pandemic and increased state violence. I ask how and why housing rights in India have mostly remained limited in their approach without being able to demand broader access to the city through right to the city discourse. In trying to find answers to this question, I examine housing rights activism in India historically. I show ho…
Bulldozers in the City
Bulldozers have been ubiquitous machines on the Indian landscape in the last two decades, but of late have been violently deployed by the majoritarian state to dispossess Muslims. This article brings together two very different lives of the machine - one in which the machine becomes the adjudicator of justice through the extrajudicial exercise of power; and the other, that circulates in the construction industry, its repair and refurbishment. It …
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