Spatial Segregation in Indian Cities

Haque, Ismail; Das, Dipendra Nath; Patel, Priyank Pravin

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“…poor social development and lower financial well-being) faced by them, is questionable (Alagarajan & Kulkarni, 2008;Haque & Patel, 2016). Similarly, SC/STs remain residentially most segregated (Vithayathil & Singh, 2012;Haque, 2016;Haque et al, 2018) and socio-culturally different from the rest of the population. With distinct gender norms and kinship structure, including a higher rate of women workforce participation, they may contribute to fertility decline.…”

Section: Sociocultural Factorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reading the geography of India’s district-level fertility differentials: a spatial econometric approach

2019

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India has gradually progressed into fertility transition over the last few decades. However, the timing and pace of this transition has varied notably in terms of both its geography and the demographic groups most affected by it. While much literature exists on the relationships between fertility level and its influence on demographic, economic, socio-cultural and policy-related factors, the potential spatial variations in the effects of these factors on the fertility level remain unaddressed. Using the most recent district-level census data (of 2011) for India, this nationwide study has identified plausible spatial dependencies and heterogeneities in the relationships between the district-wise Total Fertility Rates (TFRs) and their respective demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors. After developing a geocoded database for 621 districts of India, spatial regression and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) models were used to decipher location-based relationships between the district-level TFR and its driving forces. The results revealed that the relationships between the district-level TFR and the considered selected predictors (percentage of Muslims, urbanization, caste group, female mean age at marriage, female education, females in the labour force, net migration, sex ratio at birth and exposure to mass media) were not spatially invariant in terms of their respective strength, magnitude and direction, and furthermore, these relationships were conspicuously place- and context-specific. This study suggests that such locality-based variations and their complexities cannot be explained simply by a single narrative of either socioeconomic advancement or government policy interventions. It therefore contributes to the ongoing debate on fertility research in India by highlighting the spatial dependence and heterogeneity of the impacts made by demographic, socioeconomic and cultural factors on local fertility levels. From a methodological perspective, the study also discerns that the GWR local model performs better, in terms of both model performance and prediction accuracy, compared with the conventional global model estimates.

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Section: Sociocultural Factorsmentioning

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2019

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“…Sections of the city, like Motithang, continue to retain a tag of ‘locality of the elite and affluent suburb’, while Changzamtog predominantly houses lower-income groups (Misra et al, 2013; Norbu, 2008). One can visualise a new trend of spatially-related social identities in this urban setting, a common feature of many large cities of the world, as shown for Delhi by Dupont (2004) and Haque et al (2018). Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town contain globally known pockets of city space with high concentrations of slum dwellers and/or marginalised sections.…”

Section: New Social Ordering and Spatial Consciousnessmentioning

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Bhutan’s Dream City of Thimphu

Khamrang

2020

South Asia Research

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Buttressed by the philosophy of Gross National Happiness (GNH), Bhutan’s development policies are inherently grounded in balancing material and spiritual well-being, while Bhutan’s capital city, Thimphu, has over the past few decades experienced phenomenal growth and urban transformation. This article builds on the notion of socio-spatial dialectic to examine the new forms of social ordering in the urban space of Thimphu. Critiquing the idealisation of Thimphu as a dream city for all, it endorses instead the development of regional growth centres and small towns. This underlines the potential of stimulating regional economic development, as a better strategy for inclusive growth and actualisation of Bhutan’s philosophy of GNH.

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“…Indian cities are segregated on the basis of caste and religious identity, with recent empirical work demonstrating the extent to which spatialized forms of difference continue to operate in these ‘secular’ spaces (Haque et al ., 2018; Bharathi et al ., 2019). Contemporary work often frames socio‐spatial exclusion of Muslim communities in terms of ‘ghettoization’ (Jaffrelot and Gayer, 2012), which echoes the language Ambedkar (2015) uses to describe the separation of Dalit neighbourhoods in villages.…”

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TOXIC FORMATIONS: Race, Place and the Politics of Pollution on the Banks of the Ganga

Ponnaganti

2024

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Pollution in the environment emerges as a legal and technical object on the one hand, and as a repository of social and cultural beliefs on the other. What happens when we trouble the idea that these belong to different domains and think about seemingly divergent meanings of pollution together? In this article, I draw from anti‐caste and anti‐racist work to explore this question. Extending critical urban scholarship on environmental politics, I attend to formations of caste and religion alongside judicial and political discourse on preventing pollution to the river Ganga in North India. In our present moment, on the banks of the sacred river, extremist leaders mobilize regulations to target minoritized Muslim and Dalit communities in Kanpur's leather industry. I argue that the roots of these actions lie in an environmental petition from the mid‐1980s which transformed urban environmental governance in North India, as the court decoupled questions of environmental protection from economic and social justice. I suggest that the analytic of regional racial formations helps us grapple with uneven socio‐spatial landscapes in postcolonial cities and sharpens our understanding of environmental injustices by moving beyond fixed categories of difference.

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Spatial Segregation in Indian Cities

Cited by 18 publications

References 32 publications

Reading the geography of India’s district-level fertility differentials: a spatial econometric approach

Reading the geography of India’s district-level fertility differentials: a spatial econometric approach

Bhutan’s Dream City of Thimphu

TOXIC FORMATIONS: Race, Place and the Politics of Pollution on the Banks of the Ganga

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