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Extended urbanisation and the politics of uncertainty: The contested pathways of highway corridors in India
The Geographical Journal ( IF 3.6 ) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 , DOI: 10.1111/geoj.12441
Nitin Bathla 1
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This paper explores how uncertainty has become a central constitutive feature under the ongoing attempts at rapid extension of highway corridors across India. Contrary to the terra nullius assumption that India's highway programmes operate under, the pathways to accumulation they seek to open present a palimpsest of pre-existing claims, occupancies and forms of dwelling that come into conflict with the attempts to extend urban space. The paper specifically follows the prolonged uncertainty surrounding a regional highway corridor between the cities of Delhi and Gurgaon, the Dwarka Expressway, which underwent multiple legal contestations over evictions and land disputes. In doing so, it analyses how managing uncertainty in the production of highway corridors becomes profitable for the state, powerful corporate actors and middle-class homebuyer-investors, presenting a form of value that can be commodified and exchanged. However, on the other hand, owing to its double-edged nature, uncertainty also becomes productive for the urban majority in laying claims to urban space. As rapid extended urbanisation increasingly disrupts the lifeworlds of marginal communities, this paper calls for embracing the politics and practices of uncertainty in the continued efforts to push ex-centric urban analysis beyond the narrow focus on state processes and commodification.

中文翻译:

扩展的城市化和不确定性的政治:印度公路走廊的争议路径

本文探讨了在印度各地公路走廊快速延伸的不断尝试中,不确定性如何成为一个核心构成特征。与印度高速公路项目运作的无主地假设相反,它们寻求开辟的积累途径呈现出对先前存在的主张、占用和住宅形式的重写,这些都与扩展城市空间的尝试发生冲突。该论文特别关注了德里和古尔冈市之间的区域高速公路走廊(德瓦卡高速公路)的长期不确定性,该高速公路经历了多次关于驱逐和土地纠纷的法律争议。在此过程中,它分析了管理高速公路走廊生产中的不确定性如何为国家、强大的企业参与者和中产阶级购房者投资者带来利润,呈现出一种可以商品化和交换的价值形式。然而,另一方面,由于其双刃剑的性质,不确定性对于城市大多数人提出对城市空间的要求也变得富有成效。随着快速扩展的城市化日益扰乱边缘社区的生活世界,本文呼吁在继续努力推动外中心城市分析超越对国家进程和商品化的狭隘关注的过程中拥抱不确定性的政治和实践。
更新日期:2022-03-24
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