Illegible Claims, Legal Titles, and the Worlding of Bangalore

Benjamin, Solomon; Raman, Bhuvaneswari

doi:10.3917/rtm.206.0037

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“…In the Indian federal system, for instance, even though land is technically a subject under the jurisdiction of the state, environmental laws and urban planning norms of the central government, practices of local governments, customary norms and demands of popular groups also affect claims made over land and the ways in which land is used (Benjamin and Raman 2011). Some of these processes will become evident in the case of the EKW that will be discussed later in this article.…”

Section: Frontier Land Nature and Urbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land from wetland

Sangameswaran

2018

Contributions to Indian Sociology

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The notion of an urban frontier involves the idea of a border between areas based on differences along various axes such as the nature and degree of development and what constitutes the urban. Cities often draw upon such frontier regions for a variety of resources, of which, land is perhaps the most crucial. This article focuses on a ‘frontier’ in the city of Kolkata in eastern India—the East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW)—and the different meanings that land takes on there. While the creation of ‘new’ land is facilitated by the material properties and definitional ambiguities of the wetlands, the absorption of the land into standard processes of urbanisation is resisted by invoking ideas of nature. However, the conceptualisation of nature in this case is a functional one that does not do justice to the diversity of livelihood options and development trajectories possible in frontier lands. The article ends with some brief reflections on the specificities of the EKW as an urban frontier, the relationship between development and environmental protection and the possibilities in reimagining the future of frontier lands.

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Section: Frontier Land Nature and Urbanisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sangameswaran

2018

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“…Krishna, who imagined its future akin to that of Singapore (Nair 2005). Although the city has a heterogeneous small firm-based economy dominated by silk, garment, mechanical production, and associated trade and services (Benjamin and Raman 2011), what distinguishes it is a history of large public sector undertakings and science institutions that paved the way for IT, a process closely documented in Janaki Nair's (2005) history of Bangalore. The modernist global vision of the city's future has long been encapsulated by the idea of the technopole as "the ideal template for the city's future ... [a]n informational city where trained experts and managers generated new employment within environmentally friendly campuses" (Heitzman 2001).…”

Section: Thinking With Affective Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Krishna, who imagined its future akin to that of Singapore (Nair 2005). Although the city has a heterogeneous small firm‐based economy dominated by silk, garment, mechanical production, and associated trade and services (Benjamin and Raman 2011), what distinguishes it is a history of large public sector undertakings and science institutions that paved the way for IT, a process closely documented in Janaki Nair’s (2005) history of Bangalore.…”

Section: Thinking With Affective Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Even while contemporary cultural struggles in the city tend to metonymise a singular imaginary of cultural and linguistic unity, there are vibrant religious, spatial, imaginative, and material practices that work against such a monocultural imaginary (Willford 2018:5–6). Thus, despite the large‐scale remaking of urban space into commercial real estate markets and commoditised spaces, there are other alternative routes through which caste and ethnicity claim space and land (Benjamin and Raman 2011; Nair 2005). In this paper, affective landscapes are one such route through which worlds are sensed, and not just seen (Greenhough 2010:43).…”

Section: Thinking With Affective Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”

Gupta

Medappa

2020

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Bangalore, an aspiring "world city", is rapidly transforming as factories and mills are sold to private developers. As their neighbourhoods now accommodate multimillion-dollar gated communities and post-industrial labour markets, residents experience an in situ displacement, staying in place while landscapes around them dramatically reconfigure. This paper makes sense of how old-time residents locate themselves within such urban growth through nostalgic invocations of the past. Emplaced within histories and geographies of neighbourhood change, nostalgia creates "affective landscapes" through which residents invoke their closeness to past landscapes of abundance and involvement in community-making. Such affective landscapes bring together embodied, sensorial, and more-than-human fields of action to shape an everyday politics in which residents narrate their marginalization within the world city and articulate their own value here.

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“…Similarly, (Benjamin, 2008(Benjamin, , 2000Benjamin and Raman, 2011) write about many forms of illegalities and violations while defending the occupancy urbanism of informal economies, political clientelism of the urban poor land politics in Bangalore. Rosario (2006) and Rosario and Laing (2006) describe a range of illegalities and violations while examining the role of law in recent urban transformations.…”

Section: The Site Of Planning Violationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban planning in vernacular governance: Land use planning and violations in Bangalore, India

Sundaresan

2019

Progress in Planning

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This paper examines the relationship between urban planning practice and planning violations in Bangalore. Through ethnography of the practice of planning networks, It demonstrates that the domain of urban planning in Bangalore is shaped by the ethos and practices of mutually contesting Public and Private interest associational networks working to achieve Public and Private interest outcomes respectively. This is demonstrated using ho w private interest networks shape planning through plan violations and planning for violations as well as how public interest networks shape planning through multiple political, legal and administrative interventions, both of which together prevents the formation of any ideal typical planning system for a Comprehensive Master Planning Regime. Rather than a deviation, violations are identified as the outcome of the particular kind of planning practice embedded within the political culture of democratic governance in India. Ethnographies of Indian state constantly points to the blurred boundaries between the categories of state and society in India. Findings from this research conform to this; actors from both inside and outside government rather than act to achieve the cause of their positions act in the interest of the networks within which they are associated with-public or private interest. Therefore, combining lessons from political systems and policy networks studies of the state and governance with ethnographies of the everyday state in India I propose a conceptual language of Vernacular Governance to trace the constantly changing shape of planning practice in Bangalore through its relationship with planning violations. This paper attempts to raise questions on theorizing planning practices as embedded within the political culture of particular contexts, rather than taking for granted dualist conceptualizations of state and society producing on the one hand theorizations of planning failures and on the other, informality, implementation failure and corruption.

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Illegible Claims, Legal Titles, and the Worlding of Bangalore

Cited by 37 publications

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Land from wetland

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Nostalgia as Affective Landscape: Negotiating Displacement in the “World City”

Urban planning in vernacular governance: Land use planning and violations in Bangalore, India

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