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In the Public's Interest - Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (Hardcover)
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In the Public's Interest - Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi (Hardcover)
Series: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
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This book studies the recent legacy of basti "evictions" in
Delhi-mass clearings of some of the city's poorest neighborhoods as
a way to understand how the urban poor are disenfranchised in the
name of "public interest" and, in the case of Delhi, by the very
courts meant to empower and protect them. Studying bastis, says
Gautam Bhan, provokes six clear lines of inquiry applicable to
studies of urbanism across the global south. The first is the
long-standing debate over urban informality and illegality: the
debate's impact on conceptions and practices of urban planning, the
production of space, and the regulation of value. The second is a
set of debates on "good governance," read through their
intersections with ideas of "planned development" within rapidly
transforming cities. The third is the political field of urban
citizenship and the possibilities of substantive rights and
belonging in the city. The fourth is resistance and the ability of
a city's subaltern residents to struggle against exclusion. The two
remaining inquiries both cut across and unify the first four. One
of these is the role of the judiciary and the relationships between
law and urbanism in cities of the global south. The other is the
relationship between democracy and inequality in the city. What
emerges about Delhi in particular is a multilayered double standard
in attention to, and enforcement of, property laws. Rights are
lost, citizenship is unequal and differentiated, the promise of
development is refused, and poverty and inequality are reproduced
and deepened. The task at hand, says Bhan, is not just to explain
evictions but also to listen to what they are telling us about "the
city that is as well as the city that can be."
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