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It is not that common for monographic studies of informal settlements to strike such
an elegant balance between the theoretical propositions that help us to understand
better the experience of slum dwellers; the contextualization and analysis of urban
policy connected not to ‘universal principles’ or ‘one-size-fits all best practices’ but
to specific social and political circumstances; and the voice, ideas and anxieties of
those better qualified to illuminate what goes on in the infra-city, slum dwellers, as
Ayona Datta’s The Illegal City does. Based on ethnographic fieldwork she undertook
in 2002 and 2005 with research assistant Ritu Mishra in a medium-size squatter
settlement in Delhi pending resettlement – a jhuggi jhopri colony, the category
for land squatting slums in the city (the other being ‘slum designated areas’,
‘resettlement colonies’ and ‘regularized-unauthorized colonies’, p. 6) – Datta sets
out to investigate the population’s everyday encounters and negotiations with the
law, with a particular focus on the gendered re-working of their status, identities
and practices as illegal citizens.
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Urban policy Space Law Gender Delhi Ayona Datta
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Ascensão, E. (2014). Review of 'The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement', Urban History, 41, 179-180