Datta, A (2016) The intimate city: violence, gender, and ordinary life in Delhi slums. Urban Geography, 37 (3). pp. 323-342. ISSN 0272-3638
Abstract
In this paper I argue for an expansion of the horizons of urban geography through a notion of the intimate city. I focus on the slum as a space where a violence of an exclusionary city is woven into its intimate material and social conditions, but where this violence is also domesticated and rendered as part of the everyday. I illustrate through three stories of intimate lives of slum women that everyday life in the slum requires the production of a) an urban subject who shows agency not by resisting but by living with intimate violence b) an urban subjectivity involved in acquiring knowledge of one’s bodily terrain in order to limit this violence and c) a urban citizenship that argues for a ‘right to intimacy’ as a way to claim a right to the city. This paper calls for a recasting of the public/private divides in urban geography in order to understand how violence circulates through and contravenes the boundaries of public/private, city/slum, tradition/modernity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Taylor & Francis. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography on 22 Jan 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02723638.2015.1096073. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | slums, gender violence, intimate city, urban citizenship, India |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2015 10:13 |
Last Modified: | 26 Apr 2019 13:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2015.1096073 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/02723638.2015.1096073 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:83076 |