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| Title | Fantasy Visions, Informal Urbanization, And Local Conflict: An Evolutionary Perspective On Smart City Governance In India |
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| ID_Doc | 26110 |
| Authors | Parida D. |
| Year | 2022 |
| Published | GeoJournal, 87, 6 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10708-021-10521-3 |
| Abstract | Smart city imaginaries have emerged in southern cities driven by neoliberal logics in the urban space. Scholarly work in India has continued to engage with sweeping accounts of cities as opposed to detailed empirical studies of local projects. This paper attempts to address this gap through an in-depth ethnographic inquiry of a slum redevelopment project in the city of Bhubaneswar, India. The key objective is to understand the ways in which informal residents adapted to and changed smart city policies in India in recent years. Using an evolutionary lens, and drawing on participant observation; document analysis; and semi-structured interviews, the paper puts forth a descriptive cases that advances the notion that smart cities imaginaries have resulted in abrupt changes in the institutional context while getting entangled itself within the legal system. The paper also demonstrates how smart cities discourses counter-intuitively result in emergent spaces of resistance in the form of counter-hegemonic practices, thus allowing spaces for the evolution of new actors and imaginaries from unfamiliar territories. The paper concludes by discussing that city planning and governance pathways in India risk creating complicated path dependencies and rigid governance future pathways that may amplify conflict. © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. |
| Author Keywords | Co-evolution; EGT; Indian cities; Informality; Smart cities; Urban Governance |
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