Toxicity 1
On Ambiguity and Sewage in Mumbai's Urban Sea
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382485 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikhil Anand (0000-0001-9249-3655, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 687-697 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.13093 |
| OpenAlex | W4293033005 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 41 |
In this essay, I focus on the remarkable process through which Mumbai's urban administration has continued to release its sewage, largely untreated, into the Arabian Sea. I show how it does this by rendering sewage both legally and materially ambiguous. I urge an attention to the processes of legal and material ambiguation, through which 'slow violence' is unevenly administered in Mumbai. Building on the work of Jacqueline Best, I argue that ambiguity does not simply leave open improvised forms of technocratic administration; ambiguity also defers bureaucratic activity in particular domains, while permitting activity in others. Taken together, the municipal administration mobilizes ambiguity so as to evade rendering toxicity an actionable problem of urban living and distributed social vulnerability in the city
Ambiguity · Bureaucracy · Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Technocracy · Law · Philosophy · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Eviscerating the Sea
Habitability, viability and disaster risk creation in urban India
Fish Drought
Everyday practices of administrative ambiguation and the labour of de-ambiguation
Operationalizing and navigating ambiguity – Land-making and fisherfolk negotiations in the land-water frontier of Karachi
Teardrops at the Taj
Anthroposea
Ambivalent Governance and Slow Violence in Mumbai's Mithi River
Sewers and sewage treatment in Mumbai
From contested commons to ornamental ecologies
After the Right to Water
Coda
Toxicity 2
Dossiê
Enduring Harm
Rule By Aesthetics
The Promise of Infrastructure
Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty
The Fabric of Space
In the Nature of Cities
Waste Siege
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
Reinventing London
Rethinking urban metabolism
Chemical warfare in Colombia, evidentiary ecologies and senti-actuando practices of justice
The Afterlives of “Waste”
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing
Defacement
Hydraulic City
Toxic politics
Political Infrastructures
Ambivalent Governance and Slow Violence in Mumbai's Mithi River
Thinking with Flint
Contesting the Unethical City
Greening Displacements, Displacing Green
Disciplining De Facto Development
After the Right to Water
Slum as theory
Restoring a River, Re-storying History
Toxicity 2
The Ethnography of Infrastructure
Urban Development and Death
Advocacy after Bhopal
A History of the Modern Fact
What Gets Inside
Infrastructural violence
Redefining pollution and action
The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
State Making, Knowledge, and Ignorance
Rhizomes and other uncountables
When infrastructures attack
Bureaucratic ambiguity
Strategic unknowns
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |