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Where is the city in “The Right to the City”? The colliding politics of place‐making in a resettlement colony in Delhi’s periphery
Author(s) -
Bose Debangana
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/area.12665
Subject(s) - right to the city , slum , politics , normative , ideal (ethics) , place making , global city , new delhi , sociology , political science , economic growth , gender studies , political economy , geography , law , economics , architectural engineering , metropolitan area , archaeology , engineering , population , demography
This paper reframes the motto of the right to the city by examining the colliding practices of place‐making among diverse residents such as displaced slum dwellers, rural migrants, and low‐income newcomers in a resettlement colony in Delhi's periphery. Moving beyond this conceptualisation of the “city” within the right to the city motto as an emancipatory and ideal one, I shed light on the “kind” of a city the diverse actors produce in Delhi's periphery. Refraining from suggesting a normative conceptualisation, I argue that the right to the city as practised on the ground is also a right to co‐create an ever‐emerging city with colliding trajectories of opportunities and constraints beyond an inclusive and emancipatory city, as generally perceived.