Bose, Debangana and Ettlinger, Nancy (2020) The ordinariness of struggle and exclusion: a view from across the north–south urban ‘divide’. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 13. pp. 509-526. ISSN 1752-1386

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Abstract

Comparative literature on subaltern urbanism neglects inequalities among the poor that mimic exclusionary processes to which they have been subjected, what we call ‘scalar imitation’. Using Robinson’s ‘launching’ tactic towards ‘generative comparison’, we identify and explain the evolution of class differentiation within a resettlement colony in Delhi’s periphery, reference ‘glimpses’ of similar processes in literature on subaltern urbanism, and discuss epistemological underpinnings of our analysis. We revise ‘local uniqueness’, which Massey developed early in her career, and adhere to her later topological sensibilities and Foucault’s ‘ascending analysis’. We conclude by highlighting the blurring of worlding and place making processes.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	comparative urbanism; generative comparison; inequality; place making; subaltern urbanism; worlding;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography
Item ID:	17157
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsaa014
Depositing User:	Mark Boyle
Date Deposited:	15 May 2023 09:56
Journal or Publication Title:	Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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