When Urbanization Leads to Governance Beyond the State

Network of Actors Along an Urbanization Gradient in Bengaluru, India

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ID6430438
AutoresArvind Lakshmisha (0000-0001-5882-7260), Harini Nagendra (0000-0002-1585-0724)
Ano2025
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas67-82
Data de publicação2025-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of the Commons (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1875-0281 • E-ISSN: 1875-0281
EditoraUbiquity Press, Ltd. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5334/ijc.1369
OpenAlexW4408000239
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas31

The rapid growth and expansion of cities in the global South has altered the values, perceptions, actor groups and thus dominant institutional and governance structures influencing management and access of local common pool resources. In this paper, we explore how urban transformation and changes in governance have influenced interactions of actors involved in commons (lake) management, with selected cases along an rural-urban gradient in the Greater Bengaluru Metropolitan Region (GBMR). We map the actors, actively and directly involved in lake management, and the interactions between them along an interconnected series of lakes, to identify five broad types of interactions: cooperation, conflict, competition, resistance and passive acceptance. Visualising the network of actors along the gradient, we highlight that the actor networks are fragmented based on municipal boundaries. We find that there is an increase in the non-state actors as we move along the rural-urban gradient highlighting diverse forms of polycentric governance arrangement with urbanisation. We find passive acceptance and resistance as predominant forms of interactions in rural areas and cooperation in urban areas. We find that with an increase in non-state actors there has been a shift from a state of dependence to a state of engagement between communities and the state actors leading to governance beyond the state

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