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The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement

Datta, Ayona

Paperback

Series: Gender, Space and Society

General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 1138248320
ISBN13: 9781138248328
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 2 2016
Pages: 210
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces.

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