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Slums as Urban Constellations: Tales from Toba Tek Nagar, Mumbai
[Thesis]
Prasad Khanolkar
Goonewardena, Kanishka; Rankin, Katharine
University of Toronto (Canada)
2016
291
Committee members: Cody, Francis; Jain, Kajri; Lewis, Robert
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-66674-8
Ph.D.
Geography
University of Toronto (Canada)
2016
Three hegemonic phenomena dictate the fate of slums in contemporary Mumbai, India. First, the teleological statement: "Mumbai is to be Slum Free." This ubiquitous proclamation denounces the possibility that the practices through which slum-residents build urban habitats can help rethink urban planning, and in doing so, relegates slums to the realm of "non-planning." Second, the dominance of neoliberal slum policies, which reify localities built by residents over years into lands with a "developmental value" and alienate residents from their memories, desires, and the sociality embedded in the built environment. And third, the utilitarian impulse of urban development, which uses planning as instrumental means to achieve specific ends. This instrumentality can be traced back to colonialism, during which the ideologies of industrious reason and utilitarianism played a key role in the capitalist transformation of colonized lands. This relationship between means and ends, normalized today, legitimizes the will and the power to "improve" the world of "others" in the names of planning, development, and progress.
Geography; South Asian Studies; Urban planning
Social sciences;India;Mumbai;Toba Tek Nagar
Law, Nicholas Benjamin
Goonewardena, Kanishka; Rankin, Katharine
Geography
University of Toronto (Canada)
1883883660; 10194630
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[Thesis]
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