Urban comix

Subcultures, infrastructures and "the right to the city" in Delhi

Bibliographic Data

ID2179211
AuthorsDominic Davies (0000-0002-3584-5789)
Year2018
Volume54
Issue3
Pages411-430
Publication date2018-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17449855.2018.1461986
OpenAlexW2808780922
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited27

This article argues that comics production in India should be configured as a collaborative artistic endeavour that visualizes Delhi’s segregationist infrastructure, claiming a right to the city through the representation and facilitation of more socially inclusive urban spaces. Through a discussion of the work of three of the Pao Collective’s founding members – Orijit Sen, Sarnath Banerjee and Vishwajyoti Ghosh – it argues that the group, as for other comics collectives in cities across the world, should be understood as a networked urban social movement. Their graphic narratives and comics art counter the proliferating segregation and uneven development of neo-liberal Delhi by depicting and diagnosing urban violence. Meanwhile, their collaborative production processes and socialized consumption practices, and the radical comix traditions on which these movements draw (and which are sometimes occluded by the label “Indian Graphic Novel”) create socially networked and politically active spaces that resist the divisions marking Delhi’s contemporary urban fabric

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Comics · Consumption (sociology · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · New delhi · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Right to the city · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Cinema and Media Studies · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Humor Studies and Applications · History · Law

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