Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Bengaluru
| Autor: | Sachinkumar Rathod, Carol Upadhya |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Bengaluru
media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography Social Sciences Identity (social science) India 02 engineering and technology Politics caste Urbanization Sociology media_common Oppression Land change 05 social sciences Caste General Social Sciences 021107 urban & regional planning land markets Agrarian society Political economy agrarian transition peri-urban accumulation 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, Vol 26 (2021) |
| Popis: | Building on recent literature that explores how the social logics of older agrarian formations are refracted in processes of urbanization, the paper foregrounds the significance of caste in rapidly changing peri-urban spaces. Drawing on extended fieldwork in several villages on the outskirts of Bengaluru, it shows how the twin scaffoldings of agrarian society—caste and land—are reconfigured as the values of land change in this zone of transition. Caste identity not only structures who can participate in, or prosper from, the transformation of agrarian land into urban real estate—it is also refashioned and deployed in new ways, especially through the politics of land. This study demonstrates why caste should be understood as a social structure of accumulation, whose specific modes of operation are defined by regionally rooted histories of development and memories of oppression and struggle. |
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