Politics in the Informalizing Metropolis
Displacement, Resettlement and Unstable Negotiations in Uncivil Ahmedabad
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382852 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caleb Johnston (0000-0003-3349-1558, Institute of Geography School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Drummond Street Edinburgh EH8 9XP UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 539-557 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| 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 | 10.1111/1468-2427.12010 |
| OpenAlex | W1762060223 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article documents the displacement of Baoris, an adivasi (indigenous) community living in the city of Ahmedabad, India, and their subsequent resettlement along the city's precarious urban-rural frontier. I argue that this process signals the informalization of rights and territories, representing a political regime of governing in the remaking of the contemporary Indian metropolis. Recent actions taken by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to evict Baoris from the inner city are situated within the entangled processes and politics of urban restructuring, liberalization and Hindu nationalism. The absence and erosion of democratic protections, however, has not precluded the possibility of political negotiations with the local agents of state and capital, and this article assesses the tactics that community residents have deployed in their bid to maintain claims to territory, labour and services. I end by tempering enthusiasm for the informalizing city as a site for realizing alternative forms of justice and possible democratization
Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Economy · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Restructuring · Right to the city · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Políticas y geografías del desplazamiento
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Everything Is Being Disturbed’
Urban homeless shelters in India
The disintegration and reproduction of communities
Religion, poverty and conflict in a garbage slum of Ahmedabad
The Familiar Face of the State
The "Servants" of Dehradun
Beyond a state-centric approach to urban informality
From Third-Class to World-Class Citizens
Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism
The Challenge of Slums
City Requiem, Calcutta
Urban Informality
Powers of Freedom
Homo Sacer
This is no longer the city I once knew”. Evictions, the urban poor and the right to the city in millennial Delhi
Deep democracy
Reinventing India
Nuisance Talk and the Propriety of Property
Civic Governmentality
Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing
Spaces of neoliberalism
Urban Informality
Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities
Interrogating post-democratization
Between violence and desire
The right to the city
Competing Inequalities
Between Global Flows and Local Dams
The crucible of citizenship
From 'Dangerous Classes' to 'Quiet Rebels
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |