Crossing the Howrah Bridge

This photo-essay analyzes the politics of dwelling of the inhabitants of 'outcast' Calcutta - the city that is the nightmare of urban planners and whose squalor, filth and poverty are taken to be indexes of the failure of the postcolonial urbanism as such. The city that turned itself into a barricade during the street-fighting years of the 1960s is now about to turn its back on its own subalterns (migrants from poorer areas), participating in urban cleansing drives that derive from neo-liberal dictates. Showing that the squatters also dwell and forge solidarities underpinned by an ethic of survival, this essay draws attention to non-state political formations emerging out of the negotiations of the City Form with the non-civic but enabling life-forms prevalent in subaltern Calcutta

Archaeology · Grassroots · Negotiation · Nightmare · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Sociology · State (computer science · Subaltern · Urban politics · Urbanism · History · Law · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Architecture

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