The illegal city space, law and gender in a Delhi squatter settlement - Datta, Ayona (Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2012)
1 Law, Space and Subjectivity; 2 Violence of Urban Development; 3 Construction of Squatter Settlements; 4 Becoming 'Illegal' Urban Citizens; 5 'Legitimate' Social Organization; 6 Contested Boundaries of Infrastructure; 7 Legitimate Domesticities; 8 Visions of the Future
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a 'force of law', where law is violently encountered wit
Includes bibliographical references and index