ABSTRACT Vehicular congestion on the streets of Bengaluru has been tackled, since the late 1990s at least, through a hybrid coalition of actors, technologies, norms, and discourses that have political consequences. Technopolitical regimes, understood as an ordering that enrolls technologies and artifacts amongst other things to achieve specific political aims, is a particularly apposite framing for delineating the ways by which congestion is problematized and addressed in urban areas, such as Bengaluru. Relying on this framing, a range of entities such as mega-infrastructure projects, ‘super bureaucrats,’ investment plans, and discourses of infrastructure deficiency constitute the regime of congestion. Bengaluru’s regime of congestion has become associated with a discernible political intent that redefines streets into entities reserved for vehicular traffic and at the same time marginalizes the mobility needs of the urban poor and the nonmotorized. In the process, not only is public transit becoming a less inviting option, but it incentivizes the switch to private vehicles, thereby reinforcing the existing regime. It is this self-perpetuating cycle that accounts for the stability of the regime of congestion. This offers two insights for theory development. First, with the circulation of world-class city discourses, urban technopolitical regimes possess a distinctly hybrid global-local (or glocal) constitution that weaves together global norms with local concerns and actors. Second, interlinkages between material, institutional, and political actors create an entity that exists in a self-perpetuating cycle, thus unlocking such a regime would require revitalizing coexistence across multiple modalities of mobility infrastructures.

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拥堵制度：印度班加罗尔的流动与不平等的技术政治

摘要至少从1990年代末以来，班加罗尔街头的交通拥堵问题已经通过演员，技术，规范和话语的混合联盟来解决，这些联盟具有政治后果。技术政治体制被理解为一种将技术和人工制品加入其中以实现特定政治目标的命令，它是一个特别合适的框架，用于描绘在诸如班加罗尔等城市地区解决拥堵的方法和方法。依靠这种框架，大型实体项目，“超级官僚”，投资计划以及基础设施不足的话语等一系列实体构成了拥挤状况。班加罗尔的交通拥挤状况已经与可辨别的政治意图联系在一起，这种意图将街道重新定义为专为车辆交通服务的实体，同时又使城市贫困人口和非机动人口的交通需求边缘化。在此过程中，公共交通不仅成为一种不太吸引人的选择，而且还鼓励人们转向使用私家车，从而加强了现有制度。正是这种自我延续的周期才说明了拥塞状况的稳定性。这为理论发展提供了两种见解。首先，随着世界级城市话语的传播，城市技术政治体制拥有明显不同的全球本地（或本地）混合体宪法，将全球规范与本地关注点和参与者结合在一起。其次，物质，制度，