Müller, Richard;
(2024)
Fuzzy Frontiers: Chennai's compound walls and intermedial encroachment.
Urban Matters
10.5522/04/27752295.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Fuzzy Frontiers: Chennai's compound walls and intermedial encroachment |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.5522/04/27752295 |
| Publisher version: | https://urbanmattersjournal.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| 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 |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200222 |
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