Informality, Temporariness, and the Production of Illegitimate Geographies
The rise of a Muslim sub-city in Ahmedabad, India (1970s-2000s)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3608290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tommaso Bobbio (0000-0001-5344-1908, University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 142-175 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x2000058x |
| OpenAlex | W3140787639 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
In recent debates in the field of urban studies, issues of informality, marginal settlements, and extreme poverty have often been analysed in relation to the dynamics that transformed spatial and social balances with respect to neo-liberal economic policies. The restructuring of spaces, infrastructure, and economies that marked the success of changing paradigms of urban planning since the 1990s has been widely seen to be responsible for the extensive marginalization of the most vulnerable strata of society. In order to understand the emergence of areas considered informal-or illegitimate-this article aims to question the very validity of categories such as 'informality' when applied to analysing the transition from medium-sized urban centres to 'mega-cities' (a label that, in itself, blindly recalls the allure of modernization, technology, and development).1It does so by adopting a longer term perspective in analysing the evolution of a municipal housing project for the resettlement of slumdwellers in Ahmedabad, India, in 1978, which, in the span of four decades, turned into a substandard informal settlement and then into a 'Muslim city' called Juhapura. Widely known in India as the 'biggest ghetto in South Asia', this area is an observatory for reconsidering the significance of concepts such as informality, illegality, temporariness, and people's legitimacy as citizens
Development economics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Geography · Human settlement · Legitimacy · Megacity · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Restructuring · Settlement (finance · Sociology · Urbanization · Latin American Urban Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance
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Bergson's non-archival theory of memory
Palestine and the “War on Terror”
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Cultural citizenship in India
Making Gujarat Vibrant
The Annihilation of Space by Law
Cities and Citizenship
Social conflict and the neoliberal city
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Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing
From Gandhi to Violence
The Crisis of Indian Secularism
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The Politics of the Governed
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |