Abstract
This article focuses on a relatively overlooked dimension of urban development in India: the nature of community-making in new urban spaces. Using concepts from sociological and geographical literature on community formation, it examines the relationship between specific forms of urbanisation in contemporary (neo-liberal) India and community-making processes. The study is situated in the city of Noida within the national capital region in northern India. Examining two habitational forms, that of urban middle-class enclaves and urban villages, we suggest that a model of urbanisation involving eminent domain (the state’s power to acquire private property and convert it into public use) to produce gentrified urban spaces may promote conditions for rival forms of exclusivist community-making, including nativist ‘othering’.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Contemporary South Asia |
| Early online date | 27 Jan 2023 |
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| Publication status | Early online - 27 Jan 2023 |
Keywords
- Neoliberal urbanisation
- community formation
- social othering
- nativism
- Noida
- India
Access to Document
- Neoliberal_City_and_Exclusive_Communities AAM
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Contemporary South Asia on 27/01/2023, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09584935.2023.2169901.