The Co-production of Space, Politics and Subjectivities in India’s Urban Peripheries

Introduction In her pathbreaking essay on modes of production of urban space in the global South, anthropologist Teresa Caldeira (2017) deploys the concept of “peripheral urbanization” to conjure “a problem-space that allows us to investigate logics of the production of the urban that differ from th...

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Published in:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
Main Authors: Gururani, Shubhra, Kennedy, Loraine
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud (ARAS) 2021
Subjects:
periphery
urban peripheries
peripheral urbanization
peri-urban
urban studies
urban co-production
ethnographic methods
global South
India
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7365
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Summary:Introduction In her pathbreaking essay on modes of production of urban space in the global South, anthropologist Teresa Caldeira (2017) deploys the concept of “peripheral urbanization” to conjure “a problem-space that allows us to investigate logics of the production of the urban that differ from those of the North Atlantic … as a means of exploring processes of both socio-spatial formation and theory-making” (p. 4). Along similar lines, in this special issue, we invoke the concept of the per.

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