This paper focuses on the disconnect between, on the one hand, the neoliberal aspirations
to make Lagos a model megacity for the twenty-first century and, on the other hand, the …

This article seeks to understand the role of land use planning in India's neoliberal regime of
dispossession. Analyzing the relationship between planning and land dispossession in the …

This paper reports findings from a survey of public-sector urban planners in India. The
survey attempts to gauge planners' opinions on the importance of planning values in …

This paper makes interventions in our understanding of the histories of Partition. Rather than
treating 1947 as a moment of temporal rupture, it argues that processes that were set in …

This article argues that comics production in India should be configured as a collaborative
artistic endeavour that visualizes Delhi's segregationist infrastructure, claiming a right to the …

Industries develop in India in a particular form of exploitation of human, natural and social
structures, where nature is industrialised and caste is naturalised. The division of labour in a …

This study is the fourth in the localizing human rights working paper series and it focusses
on the right to water and sanitation for the urban poor in New Delhi, India. The theoretical …

This paper reflects upon the aftermath of the eviction of working-class communities from the
core locations of Delhi to Narela, over 42 kilometres from Delhi's centre. The evictees were …

Cities across the world are identifiable through their images, particularly of its iconic
architecture. Delhi is no different. With varied layers overlapping in Delhi's political and …

This article explores the narrative and memory patterns that underlie the evolution of city
biography as a genre in the Indian literary context. The late 1970s and early 1980s …