Occupancy Urbanism

Benjamin, Solomon

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“…50 Declarations of urban areas' identity as slums therefore became a tool that through legislation regularized "illegal" or "encroached" settlements as well as becoming instruments to gain populist votes. 51 While some forms of slum clearance have been accomplished through brutal mechanisms of displacement, some other forms have been more tactical and ideological. Take, for example, the evolving definition of slum in varying official discourse.…”

Section: Slums As the Icons Of Urban Poverty: From "Bad Densities" To...mentioning

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Abandon the Slum? Toward an Alternative Recognition of Urban Informal Dwelling

Banerjee

2022

Journal of Urban History

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The focus on urban poverty in the Global South has centered on slum-centric discussions of urban marginality to explain the supposed crisis of Third World cities. Evidently, ideological and material eradication of slums is symptomatic of the erasure of urban poverty and is regarded as a developmental panacea to address all urban problems. Notwithstanding the political significance of this term to understand and respond to subaltern urbanism, the Eurocentric gaze of urban scholars and practitioners in using slum, as an analytical and developmental category, has impeded the recognition of varied forms of dwelling practices. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with footpath-dwelling communities in Mumbai, I argue that to understand the diversity of dwelling in the city, attention needs to be extended to what could be called non-slums, spaces that embody a set of practices and negotiations that are spatially distinct from those characterizing places officially labeled as slums and expand beyond density politics. Unlike residents of so-called slums, these groups are often dispersed and numerically weak. It is this spatial organization (or the lack of it) that shapes their everyday politics in making their place within the city. The exposed nature of their habitation makes their everyday living transient and sets forth a form of spatiality that is distinct from dense neighborhoods labeled slums. While slums are being peripheralized through various policy and state interventions, these groups continue to hold on to the urban core and in doing so produce new spatializations of poverty and varied subaltern subjectivities of dispossession and belonging.

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Section: Slums As the Icons Of Urban Poverty: From "Bad Densities" To...mentioning

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Abandon the Slum? Toward an Alternative Recognition of Urban Informal Dwelling

Banerjee

2022

Journal of Urban History

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“…These governance regimes have implications for the right to the city in profound ways for the most vulnerable populations as the Noida case underlines. The nature of local government remains central to this mediation, as theorizations of occupancy urbanism remind us (Benjamin 2007(Benjamin , 2008 because they determine how citizenship can be negotiated in domains ranging from public spaces to water access (Gajendran 2016).…”

Section: Occupancy and Speculative Peri-urbanismsmentioning

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“…In the occupancy urbanism framework, resonating with Chatterjee's (2004) conceptualization of "political society," vote bank politics alludes to claim-making by poor groups that are supported by access to "voter lists in municipal elections" (Benjamin 2008:719). The modalities of representation also have a role to play, as Benjamin (2007) points out:…”

Section: Occupancy Urbanism In the Urban Peripherymentioning

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The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery

Sood¹

2021

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“…While much urban scholarship on land enclosure and commodification have tended to focus on the legal and policy-based mechanisms through which the state expropriates land and captures real estate investment, here I interrogate the quieter sociomaterial struggles between the record and the field that facilitates the uncertain fate of land's commodification, and the iterative deployment of digital technologies by global actors to capture these localized processes. Examining these struggles for uncertainty, this article seeks to contribute to analyses of the incomplete and compromised character of private property regimes in the majority world (see Benjamin, 2019;Ghertner, 2020).…”

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“…In forthcoming work I examine the role of complex tenurial regimes in the politics of land conversions in Gurgaon. See also Benjamin (2019) for a discussion on land tenures and 'occupancy urbanism'.…”

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UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier

Cowan¹

2021

Int J Urban Regional Res

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InTernATIonAl JournAl of urbAn And regIonAl reseArch publIshed by John WIley & sons lTd on behAlf of urbAn reseArch publIcATIons lImITed I am forever grateful to the land revenue bureaucrats and surveyors for their time, patience and help in the fields and offices of Haryana. Thanks to the organizers and participants of various workshops across 2019, the RC21 in Delhi, 'Frontlines of Value' workshop in Poznan, 'Urban Limits' session at the RGS-IBG, and UCL's 'At the Frontiers of the Urban' conference, for productive discussion and feedback on earlier versions of this article. In addition I would like to thank Sangeeta Banerji, Tanzil Chowdhury and Nitin Bhatla for their feedback on drafts of this article. I am especially grateful to the anonymous IJURR reviewers for their generous and instructive feedback and comments on the article. This article forms part of the 'Frontlines of Value: Class and Social Transformation in 21st Century Capitalism' project, a collaborative research project hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, and funded by the Bergen Foundation. As always, all mistakes are my own. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Occupancy Urbanism

Cited by 5 publications

References 28 publications

Abandon the Slum? Toward an Alternative Recognition of Urban Informal Dwelling

Abandon the Slum? Toward an Alternative Recognition of Urban Informal Dwelling

The Speculative Frontier: Real Estate, Governance and Occupancy on the Metropolitan Periphery

UNCERTAIN GROUNDS: Cartographic Negotiation and Digitized Property on the Urban Frontier

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