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Review of 'The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement'
| dc.contributor.author | Ascensão, Eduardo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-09T11:28:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-09T11:28:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ascensão, E. (2014). Review of 'The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement', Urban History, 41, 179-180 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0963-9268 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/100102 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Urban policy | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Space | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Law | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Gender | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Delhi | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Ayona Datta | pt_PT |
| dc.title | Review of 'The Illegal City: Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement' | pt_PT |
| dc.type | review | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.endPage | 180 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.issue | 41 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | 179 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.title | Urban History | pt_PT |
| person.familyName | Ascensão | |
| person.givenName | Eduardo | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | D511-F457-05D8 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-1927-359X | |
| person.identifier.rid | J-4619-2013 | |
| person.identifier.scopus-author-id | 55754869800 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | review | pt_PT |
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