The Political Possibilities of an Administrative Boundary: How the Transforming M-Ward Project 'Constructed' the Ward. (November 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bhide, Amita
• Other Names: Bhide Amita guest-editor.; Coelho Karen guest-editor.; Naik Mukta guest-editor.; Kamath Lalitha guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Urbanisation. Volume 5:Number 2(2020)
• Page Start: 172
• Page End: 180
• Publication Date: 2020-11
• Subjects: Municipal ward -- organisation -- planning scale -- spatial injustice -- informal settlements -- Mumbai; Urbanisation -- Periodicals; Human settlements -- Periodicals; Cities and towns -- Periodicals; Urbanization -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Human settlements -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Cities and towns -- Developing countries -- Periodicals; Urbanization; Human settlements; Developing countries; Cities and towns; 307.7605
• DOI: 10.1177/2455747120973147
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2455-7471

Abstract

This article reflects on the significance of an administrative boundary in producing distinctive forms of political assertion. It shows how acts of highlighting the ward boundaries of a marginal suburban ward in Mumbai illuminated an important scale of discriminatory spatial governance and also helped its residents organise and articulate a new politics of infrastructural need at a significant planning scale.