Jatkar, Harshavardhan;
(2023)
Bodies against modernity: politics of slum rehabilitations in India.
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
10.1111/1468-2427.13215.
(In press).
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Abstract
India continues to modernize, and the legacy of political modernity rooted in the European Enlightenment continues to reify itself in India through the performative practices of the body politic. The body politic is a totalized conceptualization of a society imagined in the form of a body, with real exclusionary effects on those without citizenship rights. This body politic is made real through performances of popular sovereignty, bureaucratic state practices and liberal democratic electoral procedures performed during urban development processes. Ethnographic accounts of politics of slum rehabilitations in Pune show that the modern body politic is indeed performatively practised, and reshaped, by the very bodies that are expected to be alienated for the making of the body politic. Bodies meet one another in different spaces and times and generate the possibility of reshaping the liberal body politic into relational and affective bodily politics. Together, bodies become both the site and the means through which political modernity is reshaped in India.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bodies against modernity: politics of slum rehabilitations in India |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-2427.13215 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13215 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Urban Research Publications Limited. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | modernity, bodies, body politic, India, slum rehabilitation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10180165 |
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