eprintid: 10200222
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2024-11-18 10:47:53
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creators_name: Müller, Richard
title: Fuzzy Frontiers: Chennai's compound walls and intermedial encroachment
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: state power, intermediality, everyday urbanism, informality, Compound walls, Walls, social division, Informal and formal sector, South Asian urbanism, Visual Media, Spatial dividers, Urban territories, Public and Private Space, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Access to the city, urban relations, Urban infrastructure, Visual actors
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abstract: Walls are symbols and structures of social and material division. Much of the literature highlights the operation of walls as infrastructure that configures or represents aspects of state power (see Till et al., 2013). However, there is little research on walls as architectonic forms of the everyday that are mediated by a host of social actors, blurring their status as strictly formal or informal entities. This is an especially relevant gap regarding South Asian urbanisms, where the quotidian form of the compound wall plays a pivotal role as both a spatial divider and a dynamic surface for a variety of visual media. This article addresses this research gap by delving into the usages of compound walls and by highlighting the urban relations and territories that they configure within the city of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. This is undertaken by theorising the compound wall as an intermedial interstice that is not merely a spatial boundary, but a dynamic visual actor, mediating notions of the public and private, political discourses, and access to the city itself.
date: 2024-06
date_type: published
official_url: https://urbanmattersjournal.com/
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2335858
doi: 10.5522/04/27752295
lyricists_name: Muller, Richard
lyricists_id: RESMU33
actors_name: Muller, Richard
actors_id: RESMU33
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Urban Matters
citation:        Müller, Richard;      (2024)    Fuzzy Frontiers: Chennai's compound walls and intermedial encroachment.                   Urban Matters        10.5522/04/27752295 <https://doi.org/10.5522/04%2F27752295>.       Green open access   
 
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