Embodied Urbanisms: Corruption and the Ecologies of Eating and Excreting in India's Real Estate Economies

Dharia, Namita Vijay

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“…This triangulation of interpersonal strife with bodily dis-ease and urban struggle is mediated through the belly. Discourses of excretion and metabolism are connected to uneven urban infrastructures (Dharia, 2021). Filling one's stomach is the purpose of work.…”

Section: The Belly and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Inequity is announced by big bellies. The nurses in Hygiene, like technocrats of the city, spatialize hierarchical difference by associating dirt with "dirty people," often low-caste and low-income laborers (Dharia, 2021). This further medicalizes forms of suffering wrought by vulnerability-access to clean water, sewage systems, employment, housing, or food.…”

Section: The Belly and The Citymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic

Maitra

2023

Med Anthropol Q

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Unspeakability is a dominant analytic lens in scholarship on gendered violence in India, but women can and do speak out. This article examines how Bengali women complain about domestic violence through peter katha, the belly's word. The capacious pet (belly) is the seat of tension, where abuse dwells in the body. At a clinic in Kolkata, India, women describe sensations of abdominal pain, pressure, and hunger to convey patterns and temporalities of violence. Yet complaints of belly pain go unacknowledged by local clinicians. Hygiene discourses frame poor women's bodies, not structural violence, as the problem. Peter katha is more than an idiom of distress: it is a genre of embodied complaint that illuminates violence as the accrual of harm and, in its dynamic and layered quality, moves beyond a binary of disclosure or concealment. Anthropologists may use peter katha to extend the conceptual vocabulary of gender and silence. [domestic violence, kinship, complaint, hygiene, belly, India]

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Section: The Belly and The Citymentioning

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Section: The Belly and The Citymentioning

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The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic

Maitra

2023

Med Anthropol Q

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“…On the other hand, a focus on the body's agency reveals that bodies also resist and challenge dominant disciplinary regimes (Doyle, 2001; Thapan, 2009; Snell‐Rood, 2015; Ebila and Tripp, 2017). In fact, the conceptual use of ‘embodiment’ has become prevalent in urban theory, whether to critique real‐estate developments (Dharia, 2021) or demonstrate the making of emotions, affect and political subjectivities in the urban (Doshi, 2016). Yet embodiment as a concept retains hints of the Cartesian mind–body dualism that founds the liberal body politic (Butler, 1990).…”

Section: Bodily Politics In the Body Politicmentioning

confidence: 99%

BODIES AGAINST MODERNITY: Politics of Slum Rehabilitations in India

Jatkar

2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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India continues to modernize, and the legacy of political modernity rooted in the European Enlightenment continues to reify itself in India through the performative practices of the body politic. The body politic is a totalized conceptualization of a society imagined in the form of a body, with real exclusionary effects on those without citizenship rights. This body politic is made real through performances of popular sovereignty, bureaucratic state practices and liberal democratic electoral procedures performed during urban development processes. Ethnographic accounts of politics of slum rehabilitations in Pune show that the modern body politic is indeed performatively practised, and reshaped, by the very bodies that are expected to be alienated for the making of the body politic. Bodies meet one another in different spaces and times and generate the possibility of reshaping the liberal body politic into relational and affective bodily politics. Together, bodies become both the site and the means through which political modernity is reshaped in India.

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“…The independent ability of urban food metabolism is related to many factors, such as population size, ecological environment, urban development and social relations. In particular, social mobility enables various food resources and energy to operate effectively and meet the self-development needs of cities (Dharia 2022). In the 1980s, China had basically solved the problem of food and clothing for its residents, and the ability of each province to satisfy itself had been strengthened with the development of the Times.…”

Section: Evolution Of Urban Food Metabolic Structurementioning

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Evaluation of food metabolism in Chinese cities: based on emergy analysis

Zhang,

Yu,

Wang

2023

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The rapid urbanization of the world requires attention to food metabolism processes at the micro-level of urban elements and exploration of the fundamental role of urban material and energy metabolism as represented by food metabolism. This study aimed to investigate the structure and intensity of urban food metabolism in 30 Chinese provinces using Emergy analysis and analyze the eco-efficiency of this metabolism. The findings are as follows: From 2000 to 2020, the annual growth rate of food metabolism flux in Chinese cities was 7.04%. In the "well-off society", urban residents have shown a preference for consuming high nutritional food such as meat, eggs and milk, which has become an important indicator of a high-quality lifestyle. However, this has led to an increase in the density and intensity of food metabolism, the density is mainly concentrated within the range of [0,5.0E + 08] sej/m2, with an average value of 2.4 E + 08 Sej/m2. The intensity of food metabolism can be categorized into three types, continuous expansion, lifting before lowering, and stable development according to the changing trends. The imbalance of regional density and intensity can be adjusted by changing the scale, type and structure of food circulation. Furthermore, the rapid food metabolism system has concealed ecological damage, environmental pollution, soil fertility decline and other problems. Although the eco-efficiency of food metabolism of Chinese urban residents has increased by 5.6%, they still face significant challenges in the utilization of non-renewable resources.

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Embodied Urbanisms: Corruption and the Ecologies of Eating and Excreting in India's Real Estate Economies

Cited by 3 publications

References 35 publications

The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic

The Belly's Word: Domestic Violence in a Bengali Clinic

BODIES AGAINST MODERNITY: Politics of Slum Rehabilitations in India

Evaluation of food metabolism in Chinese cities: based on emergy analysis

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