All Outputs (2)

City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia (2024)
Journal Article
Jonnalagadda, I., & Cowan, T. (2024). City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia. City, 28(1-2), 7-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2321024

This Special Feature explores the negotiated bureaucratic politics shaping urbanization in South Asia. City drafting refers to the flexible and contextual practices, procedures and policies required to haul diverse property regimes into order and pro... Read More about City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia.

Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier (2024)
Journal Article
Cowan, T. (2024). Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier. Urban Geography, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2024.2308399

This article engages with the work of Stuart Hall to examine conditions of agrarian city-making on India’s urban frontier. The article draws on Hall’s writings on articulation and marxist method to propose an approach to studying the urban frontier “... Read More about Urbanization without guarantees: articulation, rentier capitalism and occupancy on the agrarian urban frontier.