Everyday resistance: exposing the complexities of participatory slum-upgrading projects in Nagpur

Febe De Geest and Simon De Nys-Ketels

Housing Studies, 2019, vol. 34, issue 10, 1673-1689

Abstract: This paper exposes practices of informal, everyday resistance by slum-dwellers against the implementation of large-scale public housing projects in India. During the last few decades, various large-scale urban projects have been implemented in order to redevelop Indian cities. In these projects, the emphasis is on community participation. By focusing on the local level, we scrutinize how these projects are put into practice. Specifically, we look at how two slum communities react, contest and protest against the implementation of a large-scale public housing project. Using two case studies in Nagpur under the Basic Services to the Urban Poor—an overarching, nation-wide slum-upgrading scheme—this paper explores how standardized, participatory large-scale housing projects often clash with social realities on the ground, which results in various forms of everyday resistance and protest.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1562056

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