Patel, K;
(2016)
Encountering the state through legal tenure security: perspectives from a low income resettlement scheme in urban India.
Land Use Policy
, 158
pp. 102-113.
10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.016.
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Abstract
Tenure security systems—which determine who lives where and under what terms and conditions—are processes of governance that make and effect the relationship between those who confer tenure security and those on who tenure security is conferred. Yet, in dominant analyses of land and housing tenure security, and in policy recommendations for property rights and legal tenure security in developing countries, governance implications are overlooked in favour of analyses of the relative merits of different tenure systems mainly in terms of security, livelihood and economic impact. Using interview data and observations from a resettlement scheme in Ahmedabad, India, this paper empirically examines citizen-state relations in the context of a major shift from de facto (in practice) to legal tenure security and asks how do citizens who have recently come to live under legal tenure security encounter the state and make sense of it. I find a bureaucracy of tenure security that exerts control over low income citizens largely through fear. However, such control is incomplete and acts of resistance suggest an emerging ‘paralegal’ space to renegotiate tenure rules. I conclude by examining the findings through a conceptual framework that explains the relationship between state power and legal tenure security. I also discuss the need for greater scrutiny of the political effects of urban land and housing tenure systems on poor people.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Encountering the state through legal tenure security: perspectives from a low income resettlement scheme in urban India |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.016 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.07.016 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. This manuscript version is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Non-derivative 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. |
Keywords: | Tenure security; Resettlement; Governance; The state; Control; India |
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 > Development Planning Unit |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1503804 |
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2. | South Africa | 4 |
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4. | China | 4 |
5. | United States | 4 |
6. | Germany | 1 |
7. | Switzerland | 1 |
8. | Ethiopia | 1 |
9. | Romania | 1 |
10. | Zambia | 1 |
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