Revisiting Urban Property in India. A Special Issue of Journal of South Asian Development

Date de début:

21 Décembre 2015 - 16:00

Type d'événement:

Table ronde/débat

Publié ici :

09 Décembre 2015

Mis à jour le :

02 Septembre 2017

Mots-clefs:

urbanisme
Inde
propriété foncière

Zone géographique:

Asie

The Centre for Social Sciences and Humanities (CSH) is delighted to invite you to a discussion at the occasion of the launch of: Revisiting Urban Property in India, A Special Issue of Journal of South Asian Development.

Introduction by Vegard Iversen, Editor, Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD)

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Followed by a talk by:

Henrike Donner (Goldsmith’s College, University of London)
“Daughters are just like sons now”: Negotiating Kin-work and property regimes in Kolkata middle-class families

Bhuvaneswari Raman (O. P. Jindal Global University, India)
The Politics of Property in Land: New Planning Instruments, Law and Popular Groups in Delhi.

Henrike Donner, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK “Daughters are just like sons now”: Negotiating Kin-work and property regimes in Kolkata middle-class families

This article draws on two decades of fieldwork with middle-class families in Kolkata, India. It addresses property regimes with reference to intergenerational and gender relations, which leave women in an ambiguous situation with regard to ownership rights. Focusing on the genealogies of different middle-class homes, the article examines how women’s rights in housing continue to be mediated through the joint family ideal and patrilocality. Whilst the new ideals of homeownership and modern family life influence the middle-class imagination, the talk about ‘homeownership’ does not necessarily reflect the realities of middle-class family life. Paying particular attention to the role of women at different lifestages, I argue that the current reimagining of middle-class femininity through ‘modern homes’ remains deeply embedded in the earlier discourses of the ideal family, the related residential patterns and the modes of property transmission as well as domesticities. This draws attention to the way women can gain as demographic change favours single daughters as heirs to homeowners. Focusing on the family and women’s roles within it allows us to study how real estate markets are experienced from the bottom up and provides genealogical depth for an understanding of different forms of ‘modern’ middle-class homes in the city.

Bhuvaneswari Raman, O. P. Jindal Global University, India “The Politics of Property in Land: New Planning Instruments, Law and Popular Groups in Delhi”

Alongside the policy of promoting real estate in land as a vehicle for driving accumulation and financing urban development, the Government of India introduced a policy to provide property rights to squatters as part of Rajiv AwasYojana programme (RAY), an urban poverty alleviation scheme. Based on ethnographic research carried out in Katputli Colony, a squatter settlement in Delhi, this paper examines the politics of creating in situ property rights under the RAY. The paper illustrates the manner in which property rights are produced and reconfigured through contestations over their meaning and boundaries. The making of property at Katputli Colony constitutes a fluid and conflictual process, influenced by several actors, including urban planning authorities, courts, non-governmental organizations and colony residents. My analysis of the process reveals how the planning authority mobilized a language of legal rights for squatters as well as participatory planning instruments to facilitate the transformation of land held by squatters into upmarket residential and commercial real estate. I chart how these manoeuvres have been contested by Katputli Colony residents in an ongoing struggle to obtain land rights. Yet, the political space to negotiate such rights is curtailed by changing definitions of property rights and by a closed institutional and legal framework underpinning RAY.

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Henrike Donner, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK “Daughters are just like sons now”: Negotiating Kin-work and property regimes in Kolkata middle-class families

Bhuvaneswari Raman, O. P. Jindal Global University, India “The Politics of Property in Land: New Planning Instruments, Law and Popular Groups in Delhi”

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Henrike Donner, Goldsmith’s College, University of London, UK “Daughters are just like sons now”: Negotiating Kin-work and property regimes in Kolkata middle-class families

Bhuvaneswari Raman, O. P. Jindal Global University, India “The Politics of Property in Land: New Planning Instruments, Law and Popular Groups in Delhi”

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