Experiments in peripheral urbanization
Building and unbuilding commons in urban India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4475259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Priti Narayan (0000-0003-4835-4468, University of British Columbia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 130-147 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02637758221148733 |
| OpenAlex | W4319841695 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 40 |
Peripheral urbanization is the predominant mode of producing space in the Global South, in which residents build their own homes and neighborhoods, becoming citizens and political agents in the process. In this article, I bring feminist ethnographic attention to community infrastructure such as childcare centers built collectively by women residents in MGR Nagar, an informal urban settlement in Chennai, India, as understudied examples of autoconstruction in peripheral urbanization. Marxist feminism enables a theorization of these infrastructures of social reproduction as urban commons that assert collective spatial autonomy and enable moral claims on urban space, while serving the everyday needs of its residents. The subsequent demolition of the childcare center caused symbolic and material loss to residents. However, the ceding of territorial autonomy and spatial privileges was a way for them to make new material and political gains in the city, suggesting that a feminist politics of space is possible in which legitimacy and responsibility are demanded from the state. The commons in turn can be seen as durable countertopographies enabling a politics of place in multiple locations
Autonomy · Commons · Economic growth · Economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Right to the city · Sociology · Urbanization · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Planning and Governance · Urban Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Mind the gap
Articulations
Manufactured housing and the dialectics of enclosure and commoning
Occupations as reparative urban infrastructure
Spatializing Women's Everyday Access to Energy
Repair and Reconstruction for Urban Commoning
The rapid rise of social infrastructure
Slum Evictions through the Lens of Labour
Blackfoot legal traditions, treaty-making, and non-territorial forms of settler jurisdiction? Niitsitapi oral histories of Treaty 7
From contested commons to ornamental ecologies
The Magna Carta Manifesto
Carving Out the Commons
City Requiem, Calcutta
Insurgent Citizenship
Politics of Piety
The Subsistence Perspective
Gender and Social Reproduction
The territorialization of property in land
Feminist praxis, citizenship and informal politics
Deep democracy
Risks and Opportunities in Gender Gaps to Access Shelter
Introduction
A double irony
Civic Governmentality
Resisting and Challenging Neoliberalism
The Politics of the Evicted
To extend
Vagabond Capitalism and the Necessity of Social Reproduction
Notes on a Southern urban practice
Samudayik Shakti
The city and the grassroots
Notes towards autonomous geographies
Hydraulic City
Gray Zones
Peripheral urbanization
Revisiting minor theory
Slumdog Cities
Lively Lands
Paying for Pipes, Claiming Citizenship
Occupancy Urbanism
Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s
State, citizenship, and the urban poor
Autoconstruction in Working-Class Brazil
The Politics of the Governed
From thebastito the 'house
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |