Of perpetual becoming, Informal as a life space (Record no. 517606)
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| Personal name | Benjamin, Solomon |
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| Title | Of perpetual becoming, Informal as a life space |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Seminar: Cradle of Diversity |
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| Extent | 736, Dec, 2020: p.57-63 |
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| Summary, etc | CAN we think of the term ‘informal’ as a ‘flexible’ space where indeterminacy and opacity opens up possibility? This perspective contrasts the way most planners, policy makers, many academicians and activists feel the need to ‘fix the chaos’ of the city by making transparent. The key assumption by ‘experts’, is essentially to provide or show ‘ordinary’ people ways to access a ‘rights’ based development of ‘livelihoods, adequate housing, infrastructure for basic needs, while competitively provide high end services to attract global investments towards ‘economic growth’. The physical form that reflects in such vision is clean (and usually barren) streets, new cities such as Chandigarh, or Brazil’s Brasilia, and to govern them via neat bureaucratic offices now endowed with computer managed systems housing complete citizen databases with adequate privacy safeguards. Instead, and metaphorically, our research time and again suggests the contrary: it is the clustering of the ‘messy’ bazaar – of pavement shops of seemingly chaotic electrical power lines, and neighborhoods that have houses incorporating shops, and shops being extension of workshops and factories, that actually form the lifeline. Importantly, we could then think of this ‘chaotic’ city as spaces of ‘perpetual becoming’ – a concept by Shetty, Gupte, and Khanolkar.1 For them, this is where people learn to ‘work the system’ – to get services, to find new ways of making or fabricating things, to locate social and political connections to stabilize the economy, and places for day to day domestics; importantly, they see ‘settling’ that remains as an active space: it is where such practices done again and again, and by numerous people learning, copying and modifying from earlier ways, to consolidate these into commonplace social conventions. The ‘informal’ is here, thinking the city as spaces of practice – what Simone and Uzair Fauzan usefully build around the idea of ‘surfacing via majority time. - Reproduced |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | City, Economic growth |
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| Main entry heading | Seminar: Cradle of Diversity |
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| Subject DIP | URBAN DEVELOPMENT |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2021-07-22 | 736, Dec, 2020: p.57-63 | AR124883 | 2021-07-22 | Articles |