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Title: Obstruction: counter-pedestrianism and trajectories of an infrastructure public
Authors: Bandyopadhyay, Ritajyoti
Keywords: Infrastructure
Public
Sidewalk
Street vending
Pedestrian
Zoning
Issue Date: Jun-2017
Publisher: Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata
Series/Report no.: Vol.44;No.2 (Special Issue on Urban Management in Developing Economies: Challenges for Public Policy)
Abstract: The paper advances ‘obstruction’ as a key to unlock urban infrastructures. Conceptualizing the modern city in terms of motion (of bodies, things and finances) has been our academic commonsense since the growth of research interest on urban settlements in the mid-nineteenth century. The motion narrative posits obstruction as its negation, which it eventually conquers, and keeps on deferring obstruction’s final advent—the deathly city. The paper is a critique of this urban autobiography. It shows how obstruction makes certain forms of collective living possible. It describes the possibility of such collective living as ‘infrastructure publics’—a rather new noun compound—that interrogates the taken for grantedness of both ‘public’ and ‘infrastructure’.
Description: Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, Mohali, Punjab, 140306, India
p.121-132
Issue Editor – Rajesh Bhattacharya & Amit Basole
URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40622-017-0155-7
https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/3205
ISSN: 0304-0941 (print version) ; 2197-1722 (electronic version)
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