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Of Holy Cows And Unholy Politics: Dalits, Annihilation and More-than-Human Urban Abolition Ecologies
In this article, I argue that the ecologies of urban India are constitutively casteist, by which I mean that caste is sedimented into the land, water, and waste of India's cities, with their outcaste bodies of Dalits often providing the critical infrastructural labor necessary for the social reproduction. The casteist...
Postcolonizing Planetary Urbanization: Aníbal Quijano and an Alternative Genealogy of the Urban
The success of the ‘planetary urbanization’ approach is built upon the work of Henri Lefebvre and his understanding of the achievement of a world that is fully articulated through urban relations. However, scholars inspired by this view have normally considered his work and the Euro-American space as presumed...
Walk the Pipeline: Urban Infrastructure Landscapes in Bengaluru’s Long Twentieth Century
Walking reveals how urban infrastructure lends identity to the urban landscape. This article focuses on the oldest water pipeline in the city of Bengaluru, India. A series of vignettes trace the linear trajectory of the walk both in terms of the spatial orientation of the pipeline, and its trajectory through...
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Dharavi, a settlement near Mahim Junction in Mumbai, India, dating from the expulsion of Dalits to the periphery of the city by the British Raj in the 1880s (detail from a 2016 photo © A. Savin, Licence Art Libre)
Detail from Eduardo Domenech, Fronterización | Bordering, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm (© Eduardo Domenech, reproduced with permission)
‘Walking along upper pipe line road’, Bengaluru, India, February 2015 (detail from a photo © H.S. Sudhira)