urban geographer @Rutgers » land struggles & crisis ecologies in India, farmworker housing in NY. 2023 Fulbright Fellow in Goa/Delhi. Editor @SocietyandSpace
Jun 28, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Thrilled to share our paper on how Indian urbanism advances ideas of the Production of Space missing in tired West–Rest binaries. We ask how anticolonial & #anticaste politics push Lefebvre's Eurocentrism to reveal different, non-linear figures of the urban: ⭕️s, fractals, etc 1/
Heeding Lef's call that a theory of space “would require a wide knowledge of different countries & languages if it is not to become superficial race-psychology” & his idea of layers of space, we push his critique of colonization using towering global thinkers Phule & Ambedkar 2/