Becoming urban or bypassed in the periurban? An emerging challenge for global ethics

Bibliographic Data

ID12892808
AuthorsSudhir Chella Rajan (0000-0002-5370-0233, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume15
Issue1
Pages6-20
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Global Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9626 • E-ISSN: 1744-9634
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449626.2019.1594344
OpenAlexW2940587199
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited39

Periurban bypasses are enclaves that appear to be left behind of conventional spatial and technological processes. With the focus on cities and their development, the hinterland serves as a resource that barely makes its appearance in mainstream policy debates. Hidden even further in the periurban are areas whose inhabitants are marginalised in many ways. Developing an ethical framework for assessing periurban bypasses is rendered difficult by the complexity of attribution of harm to particular agents. Nevertheless, by using multiple modes of interpretation and assessment of periurban bypasses, it is possible to create ethical profiles that identify social agents and elite networks for generating these harms

Elite · Environmental ethics · Focus (optics · Harm · Interpretation (philosophy · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Water Governance and Infrastructure