2022
DOI: 10.1177/02637758221108405
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Itinerant urbanization: On circles, fractals and the critique of segmented space

Abstract: This article discusses the ways that Lefebvrian thinking on urbanization has found a purchase in Indian urban and anti-caste scholarship, and conversely, how compelling new figures of the urban have emerged from Indian scholarship that productively enliven Lefebvrian categories, refusing any separation between the experimentalism of everyday life and the political economy of space. The article explores a sense of “itinerant urbanization” at two levels: at an empirical level, it describes the urban as a tentati… Show more

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“…In addition, it is also important to spatialise this relation of caste and gender—for not only is the caste system spatialised in its effects, it is also responsible for producing space in a way that reflects and reinforces the caste hierarchy (Crowley & Ghertner, 2022; Ranganathan, 2022). Women street vendors, who are situated at this intersection of caste, gender and public space, thus have to navigate certain social norms that might not apply to women working out of the public eye, have to adopt particular survival strategies to eke out a livelihood amidst growing precarity, and are especially vulnerable to oppression borne out of these multiple interlocking structures.…”
Section: Women Street Vendors In Indiamentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In addition, it is also important to spatialise this relation of caste and gender—for not only is the caste system spatialised in its effects, it is also responsible for producing space in a way that reflects and reinforces the caste hierarchy (Crowley & Ghertner, 2022; Ranganathan, 2022). Women street vendors, who are situated at this intersection of caste, gender and public space, thus have to navigate certain social norms that might not apply to women working out of the public eye, have to adopt particular survival strategies to eke out a livelihood amidst growing precarity, and are especially vulnerable to oppression borne out of these multiple interlocking structures.…”
Section: Women Street Vendors In Indiamentioning
confidence: 99%