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

• 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; demo; hisphilso; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/samaj.7365; http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/7365

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.