Frontier Urbanism: Urbanisation beyond Cities in South Asia

According to Anna Tsing (2005), frontiers are particular kinds of edges or interstitial spaces that are made by collaborations among legitimate and illegitimate partners ... According to Anwar, such transformation can be understood as "value struggles" that rely on strategies of enclosure,...

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Published in:Economic and political weekly 2018-03, Vol.53 (12), p.41-45
Main Authors: GURURANI, SHUBHRA, DASGUPTA, RAJARSHI
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Cities
College faculty
Economic growth
Epistemology
Ethnography
Geography
Politics
Population
Postcolonialism
REVIEW OF URBAN AFFAIRS
Security guards
Theory
Urban planning
Urban studies
Urbanism
Urbanization
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Summary:According to Anna Tsing (2005), frontiers are particular kinds of edges or interstitial spaces that are made by collaborations among legitimate and illegitimate partners ... According to Anwar, such transformation can be understood as "value struggles" that rely on strategies of enclosure, accumulation by dispossession, and "value grabbing" or the appropriation and distribution of (surplus) value through rent between diverse state and private actors. Himadri Chatterjee's work on the quiet yet violent urbanisation of a low-caste refugee village in Kolkata also offers a new perspective on the process, where a long-standing marginal population struggles against itself to convert the local land for real estate in the periphery. [...]the accumulation by dispossession thesis receives a new energy and critical breadth in the layered account of value struggle and value-grabbing by Anwar that underlines the crucial role of rent-intersecting with a number of other studies. The papers show that there are important ways in which primitive accumulation sheds important light on the problem of urban or rural as categories that follow from "city-centrism." Besides the direction charted by Harvey, there are certain reformulations of Marx's thesis, offered in the postcolonial context, for instance, by Kalyan Sanyal (2007).
ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846