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A Passive Urban Revolution (2024)
Other

This response builds on the critical insights and interventions provided here, elaborating how Subaltern Frontiers might provide a useful lens to explore the unsettled geographies of passive revolution on India’s urban frontier.

City drafting: property-making and bureaucratic urbanism in South Asia (2024)
Journal Article

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

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.