The Politics of Space and Everyday Surveillance in a Delhi Homelessness Shelter: An Ethnographic Exploration

Malhotra, Ragini Saira

doi:10.5206/ijoh.2022.2.13728

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“…These accounts about patterns of state violence and histories of repeated dispossession were echoed in Aakash Sadan shelter where I conducted concurrent research (Malhotra, 2022). Here too, children and their families spoke about their experiences of eviction, underscoring the physical violence that came with this.…”

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‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

Malhotra

2023

Urbanisation

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This article offers a unique lens through which to theorise neoliberal governance from the perspective of the politics of space and everyday surveillance. Situated in the informal settlement of ‘Manohar Nivas’ in New Delhi, the article draws from over two years of ethnographic research and formal semi-structured interviews with children, their families, civil society and state representatives. Bringing theories of spatialised power into conversation with Faranak Miraftab’s framework on the mutually constitutive concepts of ‘invited’ and ‘invented’ spaces of participation, it argues that Manohar Nivas is an ‘invented’ spatial domain of regulatory power wherein discretionary surveillance operates to enforce precarity and entrench poverty. These dynamics, however, are mitigated to some degree through spatial cooperation and possibilities for citizen participation in opposition to state domination and violence.

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‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

Malhotra

2023

Urbanisation

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Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies

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Richaud

2024

Environ Plan D

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This article conceptualizes outer space geographies through the Earthly geographies of extractive supply chains, focusing on mines and discarded electronics (e-waste), in order to examine the material relations through which contemporary human engagements with outer space are being produced. It considers the emergence of billionaires-turned-astronauts within the waste-making practices of supply chain capitalism, critiquing this as a particularly stark example of the politics of sacrifice that need to be centered in debates concerning the present and future of human engagements with outer space. Drawing together literatures on waste, discard, supply chains, and frontiers, and informed by fieldwork in several mining and launch sites on four continents, the article argues that waste-making on Earth is constitutive of a set of contemporary space activities and shapes the manner in which the immensity of the cosmos is understood and engaged by diverse publics. It concludes by reflexively examining the potential epistemic violence of waste-making as a spatial analytic to link Earthly and outer space geographies.

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The Politics of Space and Everyday Surveillance in a Delhi Homelessness Shelter: An Ethnographic Exploration

Abstract: A charpai is a woven bed without a backboard made of natural fibers.Aakash Sadan shelter who had been evicted from his home by the state. As we sat on a charpai,

Cited by 2 publications

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‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

‘It’s a Matter of Land’: The Politics of Spatial Illegality and Cooperation in an Informal Settlement in Delhi

Wasting and wanting: An extractive supply chain approach to outer space geographies

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