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作者

Shubhra Gururani

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.41,Issue7,P.971-989

语言

英文

关键字

Agrarian urbanisms,global suburbanisms,urban theory,Gurgaon,India

作者单位

Department of Anthropology, York University , Toronto, Canada

摘要

Amidst extensive peripheral urbanization in India, this paper focuses on the city of Gurgaon and describes how the forms and processes of sub/urbanism not only exceed the confines of the city but also of the urban. It argues that even though the questions of land and peasantry have changed, the agrarian question remains at the heart of contemporary urban transformation. It forges a conversation between urban and agrarian studies and outlines the contours of an urbanism it identifies as agrarian urbanism, an urbanism that can explain how changing relations of caste and land endure and produce an uneven geography of spatial value. Such an urbanism does not erase or assimilate the rural but shows how agrarian and urban dynamics sustain and produce each other. Agrarian urbanism, it suggests can help stretch the comparative register of urban studies that tends to be largely city-centric or even urban-centric. KEYWORDS: Agrarian urbanismsglobal suburbanismsurban theoryGurgaonIndia Acknowledgments I would like to thank Rajarshi Dasgupta, Will Glover, Roger Keil, Radhika Mongia, Xuefei Ren, Fulong Wu for their very useful comments on an earlier version of the paper. The paper benefited immensely from comments from the three anonymous reviewers as well as from the discussion and interventions at the conference “Frontier Urbanism: Tracking Transformation in Agrarian-Urban Hinterlands of South Asia,” held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, February 24–25, 2017. I remain grateful to Rabab and Harsh Lohit for hosting me and for making fieldwork possible in multiple ways. Disclosure statement No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author. Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [412-2010-1003].