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The Illegal City

Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

By: Ayona Datta

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The Illegal City

Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

By: Ayona Datta

The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters.

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Routledge

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1317027930

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9781317027935

Translocal Geographies

Spaces, Places, Connections

By: Ayona Datta

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Translocal Geographies

Spaces, Places, Connections

By: Ayona Datta

Bringing together a wide range of original empirical research from locations and interconnected geographical contexts from Europe, Australasia, Asia, Africa, Central and Latin America, this book sets out a different agenda for mobility - one which emphasizes the enduring connectedness between, and embeddedness within, places during and after the experience of mobility. These issues are examined through the themes of home and family, neighbourhoods and city spaces and allow the reader to engage with migrants' diverse practices which are specifically local, yet spatially global. This book breaks new ground by arguing for a spatial understanding of translocality that situates the migrant experience within/across particular 'locales' without confining it to the territorial boundedness of the nation state. It will be of interest to academics and students of social and cultural geography, anthropology and transnational studies.

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1317007050

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The Illegal City

Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

By: Ayona Datta

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Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

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1317027949

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9781317027942

Translocal Geographies

Spaces, Places, Connections

By: Ayona Datta

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Spaces, Places, Connections

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1317007069

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Muslim Spaces of Hope

Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the WestWest'Geographies of possibility in Britain and theWest'Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West

By: Richard Phillips

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Muslim Spaces of Hope

Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the WestWest'Geographies of possibility in Britain and theWest'Geographies of Possibility in Britain and the West

By: Richard Phillips

Debates about contemporary Islam and Muslims in the West have taken some negative turns in the depressing atmosphere of the war on terror and its aftermath. This book argues that we have been too preoccupied with problems, not enough with solutions. The increased mobilisation and scrutiny of Muslim identities has taken place in the context of a more general recasting of racial ideas and racism: a shift from overtly racial to ostensibly ethnic and cultural including religious categories within discourses of social difference. The targeting of Muslims has been associated with new forms of an older phenomenon: imperialism. New divisions between Muslims and others echo colonial binaries of black and white, colonised and coloniser, within practices of divide and rule. This book speaks to others who have been marginalised and colonised, and to wider debates about social difference, oppression and liberation.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137397

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9781848137394

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The Illegal City

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Translocal Geographies

The Illegal City

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