Model employers and model cities?: Bangalore’s public sector and the rise of the neoliberal city

Carlson, H. Jacob

doi:10.1080/02723638.2017.1388734

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“…Apartment complexes and gated communities are being constructed ringing many of these lakes, and glass fronted multi-storied offices are a ubiquitous sight close to lakes. These are all indicative of the development of Bengaluru as the "Silicon Valley of India" in the recent decades (Carlson 2017). At the same time as we found in our research, garbage and construction debris, and waste generated by urban consumption were found dumped on the lake bed and land around several lakes.…”

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Lakes of Bengaluru : the once living, but now endangered peri-urban commons

Mundoli,

B.,

Nagendra

2018

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The working paper series aims at reflecting the range of work done across the Azim Premji Foundation, including the Field Institutes and the University, and disseminating this work to a broader audience. University faculty, members of Field Institutes of the Foundation as well as students graduating from the University may contribute to the series.The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in these papers are entirely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of Azim Premji University.

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Lakes of Bengaluru : the once living, but now endangered peri-urban commons

Mundoli,

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Nagendra

2018

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“…Bangalore, with its long legacy of state-supported industrialisation in the post-Independence decades, as well as a substantial shift in its economy following the liberalisation of the national economy in 1991, presents an excellent location to think about how to conceptualise industrial change in cities of the Global South. However, the literature on Bangalore during the past few decades has focused more on the explosive growth of the software industry and on the rise of the city as a ‘technopole’ (Carlson, 2018; Heitzman, 2004; Nair, 2005; Pani, 2009). Even though this work acknowledges the roots of the technology industry in the industrial infrastructure planned and built by the state in an earlier era (Heitzman, 2004; Nair, 2005; Parthasarathy, 2004; Subramanian, 2017), it rarely focuses on the ‘decline’ of the key sectors of the older manufacturing base such as engineering goods and electronics.…”

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Industrial destabilisation: The case of Rajajinagar, Bangalore

Anand

Dey

2021

Urban Studies

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There has been a recent interest in expanding the focus of deindustrialisation studies to the cities of the Global South. Bangalore, with its long legacy of state sponsored industrialisation, as well as a substantial shift in its economy following economic liberalisation in 1991, presents itself as a suitable case to examine the impacts of industrial transformation. We study the decline of the engineering economy in one of Bangalore’s earliest planned industrial suburbs, Rajajinagar, to understand how industrial restructuring at the city and national scale has affected and reconfigured local economies. Using this case study, we make two main theoretical contributions: one, we bring out shifts at a neighbourhood scale that go beyond the existing literature on neoliberal transformations in Bangalore as well as other Indian cities. Two, the case also allows us to assess the limitations of deindustrialisation as a framework to analyse these changes, and we suggest a modified framework, that of ‘industrial destabilisation’.

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THE PERSISTENCE OF PEENYA: Examining Industrial Space in Global Bangalore

Banerji

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Since 1991, Bangalore has seen spectacular redevelopment through the political hegemony of real estate, IT and parastatals in local urban governance. The global city literature has demonstrated how gentrification and real estate redevelopment have been at the heart of such neoliberal urban transformation. Yet, the literature's roots in notions of ‘post‐industrial’ cities obscure a view of how industry remains a key part of contemporary global cities. The persistence of the Peenya Industrial Area, one of South Asia's largest industrial areas today, reflects the negotiated, partial, contested and uneven character of the neoliberal urban project. Peenya demonstrates how obdurate inherited urban industrial geographies continue to shape the dynamics of world city‐making. Established in the heyday of Bangalore's postcolonial public sector industrialization, Peenya employs over 180,000 workers in 8,236 manufacturing firms, even today. How does such vast industrial space persist within the core of a global city? I draw on interviews and qualitative field research to argue that Peenya's resilience is rooted in the complexity of private land aggregation and state‐sponsored industrial relocation within an interwoven geography of tiny, legally fluid land holdings with variegated tenure regimes as well as the challenge of re‐signifying space in a region with obdurate industrial imaginaries.

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Model employers and model cities?: Bangalore’s public sector and the rise of the neoliberal city

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Lakes of Bengaluru : the once living, but now endangered peri-urban commons

Lakes of Bengaluru : the once living, but now endangered peri-urban commons

Industrial destabilisation: The case of Rajajinagar, Bangalore

THE PERSISTENCE OF PEENYA: Examining Industrial Space in Global Bangalore

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